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Saw an interesting story on Yahoo tuther day (a liberal rag if there ever was one). There was a gathering in Providence or Provincetown (the San Francisco of the east, (why we have gay marriage)).
900 people got COVID at the gathering....3/4 of em were Vaxed. You can believe Yahoo, sometimes, unless the number was higher.
Let me let you in on something that is not widely known about this. Turns out, it was apparently "Bear Week" in Provincetown the week of July 4, so I'll leave it up to yore imagination as to what may have happened there (Hint: Typhoid Barrys). Methinks this one is a statistical anomaly.
That being said, the headlines are out and they are sensational, but once you dig into the details of the stories, it seems that breakthrough infections are up, but more than anything, cases are up amongst the unvaxxed and it appears that "they" are correct in saying the delta variant is more contagious than anything we've yet seen and cases are rising dramatically. See Florida for reference as they have not had many restrictions and their numbers are spiking as well as in other states that didn't enforce mask mandates, close down businesses etc.
There isn't too much new out there, but here are a few new charts to ponder:

and closer to home:

And anecdotally, this weekend I ran into 3 friends who are all young (late 20s / 30s) who just got over the 'rona. All 3 were unvaxxed and the oldest is a very fit girl who had to go to the hospital twice. One of her kids also came down with it. The other 2 are a couple and they were just pretty sick for a week or so. None had been wearing masks at work since June15 and all 3 work in hospitality at different locations in the South Bay.
My guess: we "snapped back" a bit too quickly (honor system was a joke) and the new variant, coupled with increased human activity is driving this wave. Get ready for vax mandates.