In line with what you posted,given how transmissible the Delta variant is,and the % of people vaccinated in Japan,it seems hard to believe they are still planning on having the Olympics.

Along that line,there's a piece on Real Sports about countries with extremely limited vaccine supplies,deciding to use some of them on their Olympic Athletes rather then,in some places,medical personnel or their most vulnerable citizens.

Looking at our schedule, the 18+ vaccination rates for our opponents' home counties are all over the place (as of 6/25, NY Times), but mostly considerably higher than Athens County's:

Syracuse 69%
Duquesne 61%
Louisiana 40%
Northwestern 57%
Akron 58%
CMU 40%
Buffalo 63%
Kent 51%
Fiami 52%
EMU 63%
Toledo 54%
BG 59%

I just can't see how there's any going back at this point. The country is open. And it should be.

Why? Because we have amply available vaccines that are essentially 100% effective against hospitalization and death.

That will slow spread and vastly reduce the severity for many who contract the virus. Shutting things down again when b there's an available solution just doesn't make sense to me.

I would think for the fall semester most colleges will be reacquiring most or all students to be vaccinated. also you cant believe all vaccination numbers i know they may be close.

But i can tell you that Gallia county tells me that there is probably at least another 10% of the county vaccinated then what they have listed as vaccinated.

Like i was vaccinated at work in a location in west Virginia. Gallia county doesn't list e as vaccinated. My wife got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine one dose actually while we were on vacation out of state at a open vaccination spot.

I mean i dont know what the true percentage numbers are but i know several large employers who vaccinated people and the health department told me they have no accounting for those numbers because people that were vaccinated there were from several different counties and 3 different states.

i think we may have a few cancelled games but not nearly as many as a year ago. i think it is more likely that we might go from full capacity to a little less some places.

What are they calling herd immunity up there in Ohio now? Seems like it keeps changing, but Austin Public Health down here in Texas put theirs at 67% which seems way low to me.

Thursday's CFL game between Toronto and Edmonton has been postponed because several Edmonton players tested positive for covid.

And so it begins.....

I think those stats are for Isabella county, where CMU is, not necessarily for the student population, which I'd expect to be considerably higher.

LSU to require vaccination or recent negative test

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32077089...

This is a heck of a lot more complex than your simplistic analysis would indicate. Personally, I'm all for vaccination and I'm vaccinated, but there are other realities that you seem unaware of. Clinically significant mutations are more likely to occur when the virus attacks a vaccinated person compared to an unvaccinated person who has recovered from an SAR-CoV-2 infection. This is because the mRNA vaccines block one very dangerous pathway for the virus, but leave others open. The virus then mutates to take advantage of those open pathways in a vaccinated person. This often results in a "variant" that is more contagious but less lethal. In an unvaccinated person with natural immunity as a result of recovering from COVID-19 more pathways are blocked and the chances of a mutation in that host are less likely. I realize that these are inconvenient facts when you want to sneer at other folks, but you really need to be a little more nuanced.

Yes vaccinated people in older age groups are significantly less likely to die, or be hospitalized, from a SARS-Cov-2 infection compared to their unvaccinated counterparts. That's why I encourage everyone in my age cohort to get one of the COVID-19 vaccines. But, those who choose not be be vaccinated -- especially in younger, less vulnerable cohorts -- are not villains to be treated like someone with leprosy.

Now that Phizer has full FDA approval, with Moderna and J&J to follow, I'd expect a lot more institutions to follow suit.

Within a couple of hours after the Phizer approval, our Governor mandated all teachers and anyone else who works in a school to be vaccinated, or undergo regular (weekly) testing.

He'd been holding off mandating it, hoping for the Phizer approval.

Question now is, with full FDA approval in place, does the federal government do like they did with smallpox and mandate vaccinations ?
According to what I've read, at that time the SCOTUS ruled that the vaccine mandate was Constitutional.

Help me understand how certain employer groups (nurses, doctors, teachers, etc) that consistently deal with the public and at risk segments of the population, can't be required to get this vaccine in the same way they're require to get a tetanus shot, TB test, flu vaccine, etc? Where is the "unconstitutional" crowd on those shots?

I bring it up because my wife, the nurse, is required to get the above vaccinations as part of keeping her nursing job.










(hint, those immunization shots aren't being politicized for millions of people to take the bait on)

I think it's truly as simple as this: those vaccine mandates came around before literally everything in the US was political. Every single thing is political now. It's the only lens through which people are capable of viewing society through.