StrangeSox

I think it's the 7-day rolling average, meaning the average daily cases of the past 7 days. Israel has a ridiculously young population which is part of the reason they're capping out hard at ~55% vaccinated. There's hardline religious conservatives there opposed to it as well.

What an absolute burn on our QB1

Lol

Oh absolutely agreed. Pace made the right move here.

This is the only thing I don't like about this move, but hey if they make it work great!

Love it

I stand by my previous assessment re: TLR and 2021

screw you Android widget for reminding me of this game

thank you pinned Android widget on my phone for reminding me of an early morning game today

The FEMA vaccination site in Gary still has tons and tons of openings for Pfizer. It's a federal site so Illinois residents are eligible.

No, and at least anecdotally most people are throwing all caution to the wind once they're vaccinated regardless of what's going on around them.

That was always an "insane" strategy but now that we have circulating variants that evade immunity from prior infections it's doubly so.

imo Tony La Russa is a pretty bad baseball manager in 2021.

Covid hospitalizations have doubled in Illinois in the past month and are continuing to climb.

The umpire has already admitted he messed it up at least. https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/umpire-ron-kulpa-mets-marlins-hit-by-pitch-1.50208955 Kulpa, in an interview with a pool reporter from Newsday after the game, didn’t say if he felt awful or not. But he did admit he blew the call that allowed the Mets to win their home opener. "The guy was hit by the pitch in the strike zone," Kulpa said. "I should have called him out."

About that social distancing and masking e: there are about 55 people whose faces you can see in that photo and at least 25 who aren't wearing their mask, not counting the group of four in front who we can generously assume are a family/household unit.

A lot of poorer countries have plans to vaccinate 20% of their population by mid-2023 or so. There's going to be a lot of breeding grounds for new variants for years to come. Enough people have decided that this level of suffering and death is acceptable, though. They'll personally be fine, probably.

Hospitalizations are up 165%-653% in every single age range including children in Michigan right now. It's Spanish Flu redux. We'll have to see if the CFR for all of these hospitalizations increase as well, but it's not like hospitalization is a great outcome itself.