CDC to release guide for life after vaccination—with normalcy still far off

There are small steps toward normal life, but most activities are still out of bounds.

Read the whole story

 

[solomonrex]

By definition, by the time most of us CAN get vaccinated, most of the US WILL be vaccinated. The CDC needs to make that clear. This is for now, not for then.

It's hilariously optimistic to think Americans will listen to the CDC after most of us are vaccinated. They're already being ignored by large swaths of the country. They need to maintain future credibility by being a little realistic.

 

[solomonrex]

Deaths per million
Australia 35
South Korea 32
New Zealand 5
Fiji 2
Taiwan 0.4

I’ve had citizenship or residency in every one of those countries bar South Korea.

South Korea has done well. But it isn’t the best performing developed country by a long shot.

Australia is lead by sock puppets who would use a respirator for colon cleansing. So I’m not sure how it did so well. It’s probably that the States managed everything instead of the Federal happy clappers. So South Korea’s performance is a meh. Sure it isn’t a screwup like Sweden or a complete train wreck like UK. But it isn’t the best performing developed country by a long shot.

I'd say that Australia was really lucky by geography. It's incredibly huge but mostly empty and dry and hot and they still took shutdowns seriously there, with checkpoints, etc in major cities.