The estimates for October range from a few thousand daily cases upwards to 200,000 cases a day. That is a wide range, but it reflects the uncertainty of the moment we are in.
Three states have 40 percent of the new COVID-19 cases right now, and those are among the states with the lowest vaccination rates.
Earlier in the year, I had shared my thoughts that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had pulled the plug on mask wearing way too soon. Once you do that, it is very hard to reverse course, as the city of Los Angeles has done by reinstating a mask-wearing guidance.
Even for the vaccinated, there are “breakthrough infections.” While the people don’t end up hospitalized or dead, it is still concerning. My personal goal is not to get what is called “long-haul COVID” where the infection persists and impacts other body organs either permanently or for months.
Thus, I’m still in mask-wearing mode whenever I go indoors to a store and our family is still not back in the habit of dining out indoors. We’ve ventured out only twice and the situation was such that we didn’t feel confined and they had COVID-19 protocols in place.
Dr. Fauci made the comment earlier in the week that if we had had this same reluctance to get vaccinations back in the early 1950s, Polio, a truly crippling disease, would still be circulating here in the United States.
Whatever your rationale is for not getting vaccinated — ditch it and get the shot(s) please.
