Covid infections are up by 68%, over the past two weeks, in my county

[Ms. Toad]

40. I got you beat. We're up 138% over 2 weeks ago.

(Up 57% over one week ago).

We're currently at 109 cases/100,000 over a 2 week period (65/100,000 in the last 7 days). Under the old standards, that puts us in the substantial transmission range. The CDC, when it pretended to care about transmission, recommended that when community transmission was in the substantial range everyone - including those vaccinated - wear masks.

Now that the CDC is continuing the Trump tradition of emphasizing politics over health (to allow the state of the union address to be given without a fight over masks), under 200 cases/100,000 in 7 days became the new low community transmission mark. With Omicrom BA.2, a variant 4 times more infectious than Delta, it is ludicrous that it requires more than 3 times the number of new cases to reach the substantial transmission range. That's the opposite of following the science and prioritizing community health.

And, oh yea, great time to drop the mask mandate on planes.