The Delta Variant is here – and hitting America hard in certain pockets of the country. I feel the pain of the front-line workers and patients who are in the heat of the crisis.
While I acknowledge the Delta Variant, I am still going about my business as my “current usual”. Tomorrow I will get on a plane and go to Oklahoma City for a presentation, and then I will wrap up the week in Dallas with two more talks.
Am I too cavalier? I remember being in Fort Lauderdale airport for my last trip before the Pandemic started and smirking at the passengers who were wearing masks. What were they doing? They should have been smirking at me.
This time feels different, though. I have had Covid, and I have had the Vaccine. I wear masks wherever it is required. So, I think it’s OK to go about my business. And I hope I am right.
Are you changing your plans for the Delta Variant?
Not changing my plans, I have a presentation in Dayton OH this week and in Fort Worth TX the next week and then back in Dayton. Use common sense, and be kind.
John Veatch
I am going about my business as usual, but wearing my mask again. I think it is time to start paying attention to what is going on and learning more about everything, but not time to panic.
Thank you for sharing Ami and others. Our team started wearing masks again at all times while with the public and we are encouraging our customers to do the same, which most of them are. We are not sure about the fall. Living in the moment and making decisions one week at a time. Good luck to all of us.
I was supposed to go to Chicago this week for a management meeting but because of underlying health issues, my doctor strongly advised me not to go. Unfortunately, I had to cancel my trip.
It depends a lot if you are in a vaccinated household or an unvaccinated household, not individually. That is one of the biggest mistakes the CDC made when they first changed the guidance, they should have made it clear that they meant Vaccinated Households can begin resuming a reasonably normal daily life, not Vaccinated Persons living with Unvaccinated Persons, or Vaccinated Persons who are not able to maintain social distance from an Unvaccinated Person OR importantly who cannot maintain social distance from a person whose vaccination status is unknown. This is even more true now, now that there is proof Delta Variant is much more transmissible, with an R-naught of 8 instead of 2.5 (means that each infected person with Delta Variant is expected to infect on average 8 other people, instead of 2.5 as in the previous variants). Delta Variant is also proven to cause break-through cases in fully vaccinated people, especially those who got vaccinated early in the cycle and who are reaching toward the end of their 6-month period of elevated antibody activity, after 6 months data shows that the antibodies start to wane and the protection then mostly comes from B-cells, which are slower to react to Delta Variant contact. Finally, data shows that fully vaccinated people CAN transmit Delta Variant to both vaccinated and unvaccinated people which the CDC has yet to fully quantify, and is a major cause for concern since prior guidance from CDC did not anticipate this as a factor. Most large corporations are way out ahead of the CDC on letting this all sink in, many have already changed their policies to indoor mask wearing and increased social distancing to prevent a huge cluster of cases within their walls. In summary, avoiding clustering is the main concern for business owners and households, the Delta Variant travels in large clusters from a single 'epicenter' and infects both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, so the key for most businesses and individuals, especially those who are members of unvaccinated households or businesses that welcome people of unknown vaccination status is to avoid making anything more than a peripheral contact of one of the large clusters and then you'll be fine. Unfortunately, there is no way to know if you are traveling into the middle of a huge cluster or if a huge cluster is rolling in since case data is delayed by days and Delta Variant moves in hours, and many cases go unreported because testing is so expensive ($29 on average per test), so until the CDC catches up and requires all persons in indoor public spaces to wear face masks, and requirement for face masks on all persons who are outdoors and who can't maintain 6 feet of social distancing, the only way to keep Delta Variant from affecting yourself, your business, and your household is to wear an N95 mask whenever indoors in public and whenever outdoors and not able to maintain 6 feet of social distancing from anyone of unknown vaccination status or who is unvaccinated, basically all the time when in public except for a few small circumstances like a solitary walk or meeting a friend outdoors who is also vaccinated for a quick chat, etc.
We went back to a fully remote office last week and I have changed plans (not gone to bbq's I was planning on going to, etc) and started wearing masks indoors again despite my vaccination. From what I understand about this Delta variant, it spreads VERY easily and I don't want to risk getting it myself or, even more so, spreading it to others, particularly my toddler.
Having COVID previously and having the vaccine does not make you immune from the Delta variant nor does it prevent you from spreading it. I worry that people are too cavalier about it this time around and it could kill or seriously impact a lot of people. I'm doing what I can to prevent that from happening. I also want things to go back to "normal" as quickly as possible and the only way we get there is if people take all precautions now before it gets out of control again.
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