[ernie]

Local health authorities in our area are blanketing Facebook and local media today about needing to wear masks, the reasons for doing so, hospitalizations going up etc. Can’t help but think it’s a response to the data change.

This is something that has almost universally pissed off the medical community so if their is funny business that goes on I expect a whistleblower to quickly come out if there is funny business.

Mississippi governor had a series of tweets discrediting the “just get to herd immunity” people on Monday. He’s still annoyingly a Trumper but his analysis was good and communicated well. Essentially said that their worst day for COVID was about 1000 cases and the hospitals are full. For herd immunity they’d need to triple the worst day every day for a year. And actually that was with an assumption of needing 40% of the population infected...when he knows you actually need 70% or more.