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Post by bulkey on Jul 8, 2021 7:50:33 GMT -5
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Jul 8, 2021 11:48:34 GMT -5
The Olympics makes for rabid fans in the stands. Really a shame. Japan 20% vaccinated! Shameful. And hardly a surprise. Springing it so late was their way of insuring Japan would remain host.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2021 13:58:18 GMT -5
The Olympics makes for rabid fans in the stands. Really a shame. Japan 20% vaccinated! Shameful. And hardly a surprise. Springing it so late was their way of insuring Japan would remain host. “We are seeing that communities and counties that have high vaccine coverage and low case rates are getting back to normal,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a Thursday briefing of the White House pandemic response team. At the same time, the vaccines remain highly effective against every variant of the coronavirus, including the more transmissible Delta variant that Walensky said now accounts for eight out of 10 new cases in parts of the Mountain West. Delta is now the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the United States. Walensky said that in recent months, 99.5 percent of all deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. were among unvaccinated individuals. “Those deaths were preventable with a simple, safe shot,” the CDC director said. President Biden has made much the same point, and he and his top public health officials look for ways to galvanize a stalled vaccination effort. www.yahoo.com/news/those-deaths-were-preventable-unvaccinated-parts-of-country-are-driving-the-pandemic-now-175041085.html |
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Post by chicagogg on Jul 8, 2021 14:00:33 GMT -5
I am truly shocked that a major industrialized nation like Japan would have such a low vaccination rate. I really am.
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Post by doggydaddy on Jul 8, 2021 14:06:29 GMT -5
Postpone them one more year.
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Post by bulkey on Jul 8, 2021 14:38:46 GMT -5
Postpone them one more year. The most sensible solution, by far. But that would run them into the Winter Olympics (as they used to be!), and I suspect television sponsors want to max out profits by keeping them somewhat far apart. |
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