CIAC will pause all fall sports activities until Aug 24

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I bet many do not report positive ones... Why would one report it? Just sit it out at home and move on.

Agreed many who have no symptoms or minor ones won't bother. Maybe a call to their doctor to get advice but not reporting to authorities. Then how many are negative and aren't reported?

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Only changes I've heard is masking is back on for HS winter indoor sports. Kids played basketball last year with masks so they can do it again. Last I saw vaccination rates among kids 12-17 in CT is close to 70%, maybe even a little higher. Definitely no need to cancel anything

No need to “mask” in a basketball game. What a joke. The kids wear them over their chin anyway (you can see it on the news) so let’s stop the charade. Running past someone for 5 seconds isn’t going to pass along the virus. Nor is standing next to them at the free throw line. Good lord. Talk about stupidity.

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No need to “mask” in a basketball game. What a joke. The kids wear them over their chin anyway (you can see it on the news) so let’s stop the charade. Running past someone for 5 seconds isn’t going to pass along the virus. Nor is standing next to them at the free throw line. Good lord. Talk about stupidity.

Just like a fart lingers in the air, so does your virus laden breath. The mask limits the spread of that on the court kind of like triple lined underwear would contain how much others smell you.

Players not wearing a mask properly should receive a foul.

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No need to “mask” in a basketball game. What a joke. The kids wear them over their chin anyway (you can see it on the news) so let’s stop the charade. Running past someone for 5 seconds isn’t going to pass along the virus. Nor is standing next to them at the free throw line. Good lord. Talk about stupidity.

Clearly you've never played basketball, or maybe no one ever guarded you because you weren't a shooting risk

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Staggering numbers out today in CT

I am utterly staggered to have a ‘mild’ virus. I hope I don’t pass on this mild virus to anyone else. I’m going to wear my mask while walking my dog alone while at the beach.

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Agreed many who have no symptoms or minor ones won't bother. Maybe a call to their doctor to get advice but not reporting to authorities. Then how many are negative and aren't reported?

Infection rate is useless metric by now. If I test 3 times in 3 hours span at home, do I count three negative tests? Many essential employees test daily for work. Hospitalized and death are now the main metrics we need to focus on and luckily they are staying relatively low for now, will see if it continues.

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Staggering numbers out today in CT

Even worse today

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Infection rate is useless metric by now. If I test 3 times in 3 hours span at home, do I count three negative tests? Many essential employees test daily for work. Hospitalized and death are now the main metrics we need to focus on and luckily they are staying relatively low for now, will see if it continues.

Just saw two graphs for the US - cases talking off like a rocket, deaths actually holding pretty steady. Now granted, deaths tend to lag cases somewhat because Covid can take a while to kill you, but it's not following the same trajectories of prior waves when far fewer were vaccinated. If you're vaccinated, especially boosted, you have little to worry about - except for all the unvaccinated people taking up beds if you need to go to the hospital for something else.

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I am utterly staggered to have a ‘mild’ virus. I hope I don’t pass on this mild virus to anyone else. I’m going to wear my mask while walking my dog alone while at the beach.

Not the poster but you are a nincompoop !

The news just reported more than 1.9 MILLION new cases this week which equals about 3 Americans testing positive for covid every second.

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Just saw two graphs for the US - cases talking off like a rocket, deaths actually holding pretty steady. Now granted, deaths tend to lag cases somewhat because Covid can take a while to kill you, but it's not following the same trajectories of prior waves when far fewer were vaccinated. If you're vaccinated, especially boosted, you have little to worry about - except for all the unvaccinated people taking up beds if you need to go to the hospital for something else.

Even today, there are just over 1000 hospitalized for “ COVID related” reasons , which still may indicate some arrived for another reason and tested positive.
That is out of the approximately 9000 available hospital beds in CT . Last I checked , occupancy was around 78% total for all reasons.
Figures my vary as beds Amy be occupied by more than one patient in a given 24 hour period.

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150 hospital admissions in CT in the last 24 hours

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Not the poster but you are a nincompoop !

The news just reported more than 1.9 MILLION new cases this week which equals about 3 Americans testing positive for covid every second.

US cases up 82%

Hospitalizations up 7%
Deaths up 22%

See the critical difference? Pressure on the system? Absolutely, especially in states with lower vaccination rates. They have a large numbers if unvaccinated residents. But if you are vaccinated you might at worst get a case of flu-like symptoms. You won't wind up in the hospital unless you're elderly or have a severe underlying medical condition. You will have to isolate until you're not contagious. Put on some Jammie and fire up Netflix. Workers needing to isolate will also cause disruptions but we can deal with it. At the rate it's burning through the nation many will get it and in the long run that will free us.

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US cases up 82%

Hospitalizations up 7%
Deaths up 22%

See the critical difference? Pressure on the system? Absolutely, especially in states with lower vaccination rates. They have a large numbers if unvaccinated residents. But if you are vaccinated you might at worst get a case of flu-like symptoms. You won't wind up in the hospital unless you're elderly or have a severe underlying medical condition. You will have to isolate until you're not contagious. Put on some Jammie and fire up Netflix. Workers needing to isolate will also cause disruptions but we can deal with it. At the rate it's burning through the nation many will get it and in the long run that will free us.

Yes this is a different virus than last year. What’s your angle here? You want every employee in every business in America to be out for a few weeks so you can take your mask off? You don’t think the virus won’t mutate after hitting that many people in a quick period of time and the very same people will be unable to work, make your food, or sell you stuff. How is that better? What are you looking for exactly? If this about your “personal rights” at the cost of society. Sorry there’s no utopia in a world where everyone can do what ever they want - read “A Brave New World”. We have to stay mostly on the same page to survive. It’s why we why we don’t marry our brothers and sister and why we don’t eat a human for lunch. These things degrade our future. Why do you want a future where everyone is sick all the time and cannot participate in life. While you would be technically alive, you’d really be dead.

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Not the poster but you are a nincompoop !

The news just reported more than 1.9 MILLION new cases this week which equals about 3 Americans testing positive for covid every second.

Great fun fact. (and cool ad hominem attack)

However, infection rate is a useless metric at this point. Every state and country in the world has broken the daily/weekly/monthly infection rate in the past few days and yet the trailing deaths are 50%-75% below prior peaks and the US CDC is actively reducing the quarantine duration. Hospitalization and death rates among the vaccinated is near zero.

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Yes this is a different virus than last year. What’s your angle here? You want every employee in every business in America to be out for a few weeks so you can take your mask off? You don’t think the virus won’t mutate after hitting that many people in a quick period of time and the very same people will be unable to work, make your food, or sell you stuff. How is that better? What are you looking for exactly? If this about your “personal rights” at the cost of society. Sorry there’s no utopia in a world where everyone can do what ever they want - read “A Brave New World”. We have to stay mostly on the same page to survive. It’s why we why we don’t marry our brothers and sister and why we don’t eat a human for lunch. These things degrade our future. Why do you want a future where everyone is sick all the time and cannot participate in life. While you would be technically alive, you’d really be dead.

This does not jive with the history of virus mutations. Viruses typically evolve in a way to become less lethal to their host which then gives the virus the benefit of living and replicating easier.