Article: What a night!

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It's a shame about the club and other businesses that were damaged and looted in the protests. America really needs to deal with its racial issues. Protests are a symptom, not the root problem.

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19 minutes ago, botrytis said:

In Missouri and Arkansas, there is the Delta plus variant now.

I heard on CNN that Delta is not only present, but it is the dominant strain.

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4 hours ago, Confused said:

Things are starting to open up in the UK.  Live music venues can open now, albeit with capacity and other restrictions.  From July 19th the restrictions on capacity will be lifted, and we will be heading back to normal, or to a "new normal" at least.  It is not just music venues of course, there have been (and will be Sunday) attendances of 60,000 people for the finals for the Euro 2020 (2021) football tournament, and larger numbers planned for the F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone next week.  So how might this work out?  To quote:

 

“The UK is in an absolutely unique position,” says Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh. “We have the biggest Delta outbreak in a well-vaccinated country. We are a petri dish for the world.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/02/we-are-a-petri-dish-world-watches-uks-race-between-vaccine-and-virus

 

As things stand at the time of writing, confirmed cases are doubling about every six days, but hospitalisations and fatalities are rising relatively slowly.  

 

So keep a watchful eye out for how it is going in the UK, we'll keep you informed.

 

One final thought, I really would not like to be one of the relatively low number UK residents who are "vaccine hesitant" at the moment.

I believe most Brits have had the AstraZeneca vaccine? It is reportedly not as effective vs. Delta. Most North Americans who've been vaccinated had RNA types. I heard yesterday there are Gamma and Lambda variants, and more to come. We'll be due for boosters soon.

 

Ontario has just entered Stage Three restrictions, which allows for indoor concerts:

 

"The number of members of the public at an indoor seated concert, event, performance or movie within the concert venue, theatre or cinema at any one time must not exceed 50 per cent of the usual seating capacity for the concert venue, theatre or cinema, or 1,000 persons, whichever is less."