443 compare and despair (again)
Yesterday, we went to a bar. Bars are open in San Francisco, too, but I haven't been to one yet.
They have been open in Florida longer. Like, they were open last summer.
So how did Covid go in both these places?
Here's Sarasota County, Florida. Anecdotally speaking, 3 out of 4 people I know here caught Covid. My father-in-law died.
Here's San Francisco County, California. Anecdotally speaking, two out of hundreds of people I know caught Covid, and no one died.
This is Florida. Our populations are not the same, I think California has at least double the population, but the curves do tell a story.
Thanksgiving and Christmas did not go well in California, but in general our response seems a little more effective, at least in terms of controlling the spread of disease.
And now?
One more week, people.
And here's the rest of the world.
This is clearly still a major situation.
Why did I feel comfortable not wearing a mask, indoors? In an area with more disease? Because science.
Early science in the vaccines said the Pfizer one, which I completed two months ago, was 95% effective against hospitalization. Current science says it's 99.8% effective against any kind of breakthrough infection.
When we entered the bar, my sister-in-law thought maybe we should sit in the less crowded restaurant side. But like humans everywhere, I was attracted to the convivial and more crowded bar side. So, I dropped a little more science. Three feet and thirty feet are the same, as far as Covid indoors goes. It floats. In the air.
The beer was pretty good.
There are a lot of negative things you can say about gated communities. The number of empty homes being air conditioned here is astounding.
But I'm putting community pool among my life goals.
File under: imagine being in the naming meeting
"We can't call it that."
"But that's what everyone calls it."
"But it means asshole."
"What if we decorate it like a flag?"
"Ok, that should be fine."
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