Businesses can ditch the social distancing guidelines all together if they require proof of full vaccination or negative coronavirus test results.
I don't see how "negative coronavirus test results" are going to be much use. Between incubation and processing times, nasal swab results are obsolete by the time you receive them. All they can show is that you didn't have active coronavirus at the time of the test, not that you don't have it now. And the rapid blood tests, which do give a current result, aren't accurate enough to rely on. Not to mention it's not known how many of the new variants behave.
Western Australia (which controlled Covid so well that we're literally going about our lives in complete normalcy) is currently in a flap over a "weakly positive" Covid test in a country town. The person returned from overseas, did their full 14 days in quarantine, and tested negative the whole way. It was only when they went home, got sick, saw a dr. and got another test, that they returned a positive result. It's a new variant; but it's not certain whether they caught it in quarantine (a definite possibility, as it's all being done in hotels which don't have appropriately aircon systems), or whether the variant has a longer incubation period (in which case, the current quarantine model is well and truly fucked). I'd be staying the hell away from any establishment relying on negative testing to ensure patron safety.
Proof of full vaccination is a much better idea; but there'd better be provision for genuine medical exemptions. Complete with education for business owners, so you don't see ignorant fools excluding medically exempt people like they do with guide dogs.
The Australian Federal Government is currently getting a well-deserved kicking over our slow and inefficient vaccine rollout. They've cheerfully declared that vaccination is now open to people in the third-highest priority group; never mind that there are still people in the highest priority group waiting for their first shot. What can you expect from a bunch of right-wing tosspots, led by a former marketing person who's a devout member of a mega-Pentecostal church. Bah.
If you're in driving distance to Syracuse, the injection site at the fair ground is eazy peazy and everyone working there was as nice as could be. They love sticking it in!
Don't snark Connecticut; it's one of our most reliable Democrat states. I lived 30 years of my working life there, less than two hours by train to NYC or Boston. Now I live six hours from Mar a Loco by swamp boat ... ick.
Businesses can ditch the social distancing guidelines all together if they require proof of full vaccination or negative coronavirus test results.
I don't see how "negative coronavirus test results" are going to be much use. Between incubation and processing times, nasal swab results are obsolete by the time you receive them. All they can show is that you didn't have active coronavirus at the time of the test, not that you don't have it now. And the rapid blood tests, which do give a current result, aren't accurate enough to rely on. Not to mention it's not known how many of the new variants behave.
Western Australia (which controlled Covid so well that we're literally going about our lives in complete normalcy) is currently in a flap over a "weakly positive" Covid test in a country town. The person returned from overseas, did their full 14 days in quarantine, and tested negative the whole way. It was only when they went home, got sick, saw a dr. and got another test, that they returned a positive result. It's a new variant; but it's not certain whether they caught it in quarantine (a definite possibility, as it's all being done in hotels which don't have appropriately aircon systems), or whether the variant has a longer incubation period (in which case, the current quarantine model is well and truly fucked). I'd be staying the hell away from any establishment relying on negative testing to ensure patron safety.
Proof of full vaccination is a much better idea; but there'd better be provision for genuine medical exemptions. Complete with education for business owners, so you don't see ignorant fools excluding medically exempt people like they do with guide dogs.
The Australian Federal Government is currently getting a well-deserved kicking over our slow and inefficient vaccine rollout. They've cheerfully declared that vaccination is now open to people in the third-highest priority group; never mind that there are still people in the highest priority group waiting for their first shot. What can you expect from a bunch of right-wing tosspots, led by a former marketing person who's a devout member of a mega-Pentecostal church. Bah.
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One year. The star gets added on July 4, so Hawaii missed the cutoff.
It was done according to the letter of the law. A rump of the Virginia legislature voted to let the affected counties secede.
I'm staying far away from the Gap for a while. It's been absolutely packed with tourists lately. :/ Same for our state park up the road.
Ooh, I was to find one of those.
If you're in driving distance to Syracuse, the injection site at the fair ground is eazy peazy and everyone working there was as nice as could be. They love sticking it in!
He's mentioned in the first graf.
We used to have a 48 star version that my grandmother added two stars to. I'll have to check to see if it still exists.
When I started working as a NYC teacher in 1999, the flag in my classroom had 48 stars. And it was, more or less, pink, yellow, and baby blue.
I can’t wait til my 14 day incubation period ends on the 12th. I figure I’ll head down to Wo Hop on Mott St for the first time in over a year.
I love living in this cesspool. Also it's fucking New York City!
I was JUST saying to my mom yesterday that I really wanted to take a trip to either NYC or Chicago, but I didn't know if they were opened yet.
Don't snark Connecticut; it's one of our most reliable Democrat states. I lived 30 years of my working life there, less than two hours by train to NYC or Boston. Now I live six hours from Mar a Loco by swamp boat ... ick.