[Admiral Beez]

You are comparing the best of times (vanilla COVID, with low levels of community circulation) to not so great of times (Delta, relatively high level of community circulation, coming down from the peak of hospitalization), among a population that still 1 in 5 unvaccinated.

AoD

But then why do we have fewer restrictions now than we did in August 2020?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

But then why do we have fewer restrictions now than we did in August 2020?

Easy - because we have a premier and a public that is not as fearful as the pre-vaccine days. Not entirely unwarranted given the degree of protection vaccination offers, but it is one thing to relax the restrictions; it is another to abrogate the responsibility and act as if the pandemic isn't a thing anymore.

AoD

 

[afransen]

My employer seems eager to return to normal and have unrestricted office occupancy (no mandatory office attendance until November). I am much less confident that the fourth wave won't scupper those plans.

 

[Admiral Beez]

My employer seems eager to return to normal and have unrestricted office occupancy (no mandatory office attendance until November). I am much less confident that the fourth wave won't scupper those plans.

My daughters both leave for university next month. I hope they get to stay in residence rather than be forced out to home schooling. The schools require everyone to be double vaxed, so the students are as safe at school as they are at home.

 

[Videodrome]

Our middle kid just turned 12 today and can get her first vaccine!

 

[Bayer]

My employer seems eager to return to normal and have unrestricted office occupancy (no mandatory office attendance until November). I am much less confident that the fourth wave won't scupper those plans.

My business partner and I had decided to return to our office on Sept. 15, but that's up in the air now. The problem is not so much working there as getting there - I am not missing packed subway cars at the moment.

Data from several countries point to waning immunity after six months, and the vaccines have been reported as much less effective than anticipated against the Delta variant.

 

[Richard White]

Data from several countries point to waning immunity after six months, and the vaccines have been reported as much less effective than anticipated against the Delta variant.

We all knew Delta would be a tricky one which is why countries are looking at boosters.

I can see this being an annual shot alongside the flu vaccine.

Honestly though, how many people have got their required boosters as they get older?

 

[DSC]

Interesting article in Guardian on vaccine procurement in Canada. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/13/canada-anita-anand-covid-vaccine

 

[Northern Light]

Interesting article in Guardian on vaccine procurement in Canada. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/13/canada-anita-anand-covid-vaccine

This bit from the article merits forward placement:

 

[Northern Light]

510 new cases

positivity 2%

ICU - dropped by 2 to 111

 

[W. K. Lis]

Our middle kid just turned 12 today and can get her first vaccine!

Doing it for the lollipop.

 

[Videodrome]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426204399861256193

I figured as much.

 

[Northern Light]

 

[Jonny5]

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It will be interesting to see how some employers handle this. "Federally regulated industries" includes banking, but it does not include investments or capital markets, which are provincially regulated, so you often have people at a typical bank branch working on both sides of the regulatory divide. I expect the banks will simply say "everyone in the branch has to get vaccinated, period," but you will certainly get someone somewhere complaining about it. And I'm sure the same provincial/federal divide can be found in other industries too.

 

[PinkLucy]

More on this. People travelling on trains, planes and boats too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-mandatory-vaccinations-1.6140131