Interregnum, week 10
Jan. 18th, 2021 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellThe news is full of alarming reports about new, potentially more communicable virus variants this week. Probably they've been around for a while, and we're only just noticing them because viral genetic sequencing is not getting the resources it needs.
Oh well, we have bigger problems, like when it was announced that to speed up vaccinations, the entire national reserve of vaccines would be released, except then it turned out that there was no reserve.
The local news is warning of the dangers for local hospitals if people don't stick to wearing masks. Cases are ticking up anyway, as people decided to meet each other for Christmas and the more-contagious strains are probably spreading here too. And yet Oregon is still doing better than most of the US.
Oh well, we have bigger problems, like when it was announced that to speed up vaccinations, the entire national reserve of vaccines would be released, except then it turned out that there was no reserve.
The local news is warning of the dangers for local hospitals if people don't stick to wearing masks. Cases are ticking up anyway, as people decided to meet each other for Christmas and the more-contagious strains are probably spreading here too. And yet Oregon is still doing better than most of the US.
