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No sweat about the date!

And let's hope long covid is pretend.

A co-worker whose husband works at our children's hospital, said he's put more children on ventilators in the past two weeks than he has in the past year

There's another really nasty virus going around right now, RSV.  In Austin only half the children in the hospital were there with COVID, the other half were RSV, and RSV is putting kids (and adults) on ventilators.

Many of us speculated a year ago, that once people were back to intermingling regularly again, after a year or more of non-interaction, a lot of the "normal" illnesses would come back with a vengeance.

That appears to be happening right now.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/09/covid-heres-what-you-need-to-know-the-lambda-variant.html

The next variant is still minor presence in the US, but gaining traction in other parts of the world/ especially South America. 

Not enough to data yet to know how dangerous it is but early signs are not positive as it may be more contagious and not greatly effected by the existing vaccines.  

Some theorize- including some here- that this will be a many year continuation of new variants, masks and social distancing. 

I have no idea if true- but this new data surely points in that direction. 

Frost said everything is being done to educate players on the vaccination process.

"We had some resistance to it, and Mark Mayer, our trainer, has done a really good job. We had four people come in and talk to the team the first four days. We provided opportunities for the guys that weren't vaccinated to get vaccinated, and I feel really good about where we are numbers-wise and we'll keep working on it."


Frost didn't give any specific numbers about the rate within the team.

Asked if he thought it was an advantage to have a high vaccination rate, he said, "The advantage is going to be based on the rules that they put around it but I don't think there's any question, like I've said multiple times, to have an uninterrupted season as a player and a team to have a high vaccination rate."

yup, especially the top 40 or so players.  Anyone expected to see the field

a sit down with the player and position coach in the head coach's office with the parents on the phone

Git'R done!

When it comes to this, yes, it's a lack-of-smarts thing.  The freedom of stupidity.  Forbidding intelligence.  Brilliant.