COVID PSA
Hey, so something came up at synagogue board meeting today, and really important as many people know this as possible:
COVID is NOT getting less dangerous as it mutates. In fact, some new varieties are much more dangerous than the original.
COVID is just as -- if not more -- dangerous now as it was at the start of the epidemic. People who do not have access to vaccines, who are immunocompromised, who work in customer-facing positions, etc, are still at high risk.
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COVID PSA
Further, you can NOT trust COVID case numbers. Case numbers are going to be lower than the reality both because of the people who don't get tested, and the people who self-test at home and don't report their infection to doctors or health authorities.
If you want to know how bad things are in your area, hospital admissions will give you better info.
Right now, my area is reporting low infections, but medium-high admissions. The risk here is NOT low.
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@jessmahler also perhaps interesting perspective from a fellow board member (a hackerspace in my case), what we settled on now wrt covid precations is watching a 7 day average of the hospital admissions, if it's below 50 we don't mandate masks, when it goes above 75 we do again (for some hysteresis). Maybe not perfect but the country dropped *any* mask stuff many months ago so glad we're at least still doing something..
oh and we improved the ventilation a lot, using various co2 meters as proxy variables