The upswing, week 20
Jun. 6th, 2021 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellBeing the weekend when the biggest events of the Rose Festival traditionally happen, it is raining and barely able to hit 60F. This is an actual recognized weather phenomenon known as the Rose Festival Low. There are no in-person Rose Festival events again this year, but we still get the weather for it.
In our immediate area, things are looking up. Oregon is still on track to hit 70% of adults given at least one vaccine dose. When it hits that mark, the governor is planning to lift most capacity limits and mask mandates (masks will still be required on public transit, in airports, and in health care settings, per federal guidance).
Oregon is following the typical urban-rural split in vaccine uptake, so the Portland area is probably approaching the magic number, somewhere around 75-80% of adults vaccinated, where covid does not go away entirely but does become much more manageable. Eastern and southern Oregon, not so much. The governor's office has all but said that the rural counties are full of people who won't get vaccinated, won't keep up with masking assuming they ever did, want to get to herd immunity the hard way, and so the state government has decided fine, whatever, let them.
I hope that anyone out there doesn't want to be part of a herd immunity experiment is able to get vaccinated in time.
In our immediate area, things are looking up. Oregon is still on track to hit 70% of adults given at least one vaccine dose. When it hits that mark, the governor is planning to lift most capacity limits and mask mandates (masks will still be required on public transit, in airports, and in health care settings, per federal guidance).
Oregon is following the typical urban-rural split in vaccine uptake, so the Portland area is probably approaching the magic number, somewhere around 75-80% of adults vaccinated, where covid does not go away entirely but does become much more manageable. Eastern and southern Oregon, not so much. The governor's office has all but said that the rural counties are full of people who won't get vaccinated, won't keep up with masking assuming they ever did, want to get to herd immunity the hard way, and so the state government has decided fine, whatever, let them.
I hope that anyone out there doesn't want to be part of a herd immunity experiment is able to get vaccinated in time.
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Date: 2021-06-07 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-06-07 08:32 am (UTC)That said I am going to be cautious about people in general for a while and in-person contact, though it means I can take back some of the burden dealing with the shopping before my wife has her surgical procedure at the end of the month (and I'll need to deal with it in full while she is recovering from that as well).