It appears that cases are peaking in the south, just like the end of July last year.
I'm guessing that cases will pick up in early September in the Midwest, just like last year.
Vaccines aren't doing shit to stop transmission. The UK and Israel are clearly demonstrating that, even if the CDC is doing everything it can in this country to hide the fact.
I don't know if death rates are down because Delta is less deadly...
... or the vaccines do indeed reduce fatalities...
... or if other treatments are more widespread...
... or if we already pulled-ahead the deaths of frail people during previous rounds...
... or if there is less fuckery with death stats...
... or if we're just doing less stupid shit like putting Covid-positive patients into nursing homes.
Should be enough red meat in that list for partisans on both sides to chew on
OK, let's play the Blame Game:
Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity | KFF
KFF is collecting and analyzing data on COVID-19 vaccinations by race/ethnicity to gain increased insight who is receiving the vaccine and whether some groups are facing disparities in vaccination.www.kff.org
I'm assuming this is not the angle you were trying to take, and frankly I'm not comfortable turning this into yet another round of race-baiting. But the story isn't nearly as clean as the right-bad-left-good hot take that you're trying to generate.
I mean, at this point, it should be clear that vaccinated people can contract and transmit the disease, so simply getting poked isn't going to solve the community transmission problem. It would appear to be largely a matter of managing individual risk.
This whole jabbed-or-not argument appears much closer to, say, the decision to wear a seatbelt vs. the decision to drive drunk in terms of individual vs. community risk. I don't make that decision lightly, as the vaccine card for my sons would demonstrate.
Death rates could be down as a result of the change in testing and reporting of what is covid. Not sure if someone can confirm or deny this?