@amvanhoose_701479 would be able to speak to the Texas situation. There are areas in FL w/ rising cases, Orange county’s covid cases are doubling now every week. It’s mainly w/ the unvaxed and in younger age groups. FL did a good job of getting their seniors vaxed. Most states have changed the frequency of data dumps too. FL is only reporting case data once a week and only of FL residents whereas before they were including all covid cases to include tourists. That makes our numbers look better in FL. I don’t think I’ve answered your question, I don’t know if I can. I don’t fully understand what’s going on but am happy that the death tolls aren’t as high.
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just a blip in the paper today:
The state Department of Health reported 15,684 new coronavirus cases this week among Florida residents to bring the cumulative total to 2,337,613. With 213 more fatalities, 37,985 Florida residents are now dead.
This week’s 213 deaths are down from the 217 last week, but deaths can take several days or weeks to be reported. Cases, though, jumped by more than 4,500 week over week, and positivity jumped as well to more than 5% after five straight weeks under 4%.
BTW @sanstitre_has_left_the_building I failed at my handshake test the other day 
I was in a situation that if I declined for any reason it would have had other consequences. I felt like it was a test. I hand sanitized as soon as I got to my car, like that’s gonna’ help after a 2-hr mtg. 
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Pro rata, that’s about the same as the UK.
So why have we had months and months of miserable lockdown and restrictions, while you people have been swanning off to Disney World every day?
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Yeah. This is my worry.
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Well… first of all… Disney did a GREAT job of protecting guests when they reopened. The FL governor… well he’s been of the mindset all along to ‘just let it run it’s course’. Local mayors defied the governor w/ imposing their own lock downs and mask mandates. All this is par for FL politics. We have state’s rights and that’s part of why each state had different restrictions.
The leadership in the Texas metro areas have been pushing hard for vaccinations and continuing voluntary compliance with safety measures (since the Governor has forbid any mandates). A decent portion of people are cooperating.
The free-for-all, unvaccinated, with “whatever” leadership areas are more rural and slowly getting picked off, but not all at the same time, so it’s keeping the overall Texas averages from maxing out. It’s a really big, diverse state. (Take half the population of England and spread it over an area over 5 times as big, but not at all evenly.)
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Our dashboards are still being updated at least weekly.
The death numbers have been very low for some time. There is no way to know if the people who are dying opted out of the vaccine or if they have been hospitalized for months.
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(1) I think Delta was widespread in areas of the UK before the US. Let’s see what the US looks like in a few weeks.
(2) Many in the UK are vaccinated with AZ which is supposedly less effective in preventing infection with Delta than the vaccines used in the US.
It would seem to me that the amount of time is less important than if you touched your phone or face during that 2 hours. If you merely sat there for the meeting, how does the amount of time matter?
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An analysis of the UK and where it is headed:
Just that she’d be more likely to touch her face the longer she was sitting there. It’s hard not to.
Well that was a cheery read.
I was trying to remember if I touched my face. I used my pencil and planner. Old school. And I was being sarcastic about the hand sanitizer helping . 
Am out taking the dog for a walk. Went past a pub. I’ve lost track of what the rules are, but the place was rammed (and spilling out onto the street) and I didn’t see any masks or social distancing.
The greed of Big Sport disgusts me. Next stop: the Olympics.
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Isn’t that the greed of the pub letting people in with no social distancing which they are supposed to enforce?
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It’s still directly related to big sport bc the pubs are all full bc of the Euro Tournament.
No, it’s the greed of Big Sport in holding the events in the first place. UEFA, for example, blackmailed the UK government to break its own rules.
It’s related but the pubs still have the responsibility they have any other night to ensure social distancing and limit numbers if necessary. They can do it the rest of the time, so they can do it while the football is on. This is England, there have been hour long queues outside pubs at time since they reopened. They’re not only busy because of the Euros.