I'm on board with the "the vaccinated have lowered their personal risk back to baseline" but there's more to indoor mask mandates than that, including sociological factors. Many just became eligible! Even access isn't fully solved. Not sure about this hurry, this week.
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Also, I agree we should provide carrots to encourage vaccination. I'm all for carrots! But a vaccination benchmark for lifting all mandates (like North Carolina is doing) is a good carrot. No mandate any more and no checking doesn't seem like a carrot to me, but the opposite.
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Eek, correction. Before the CDC change, North Carolina had a sensible policy, saying the mandates would all be lifted when two thirds of adults had at least one dose. One could quibble with the exact number, but it was a goal and a benchmark. Now all gone.https://twitter.com/AWainwrightTV/status/1393318801597509636 …
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And I'm very much on the vaccines are amazing side of this: I think the data on individual protection and transmission — including against variants — is excellent and very encouraging. But mandates have sociological dynamics and benchmarks are better than abrupt changes.
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I would’ve been in favor of this shift a little later if it had been pre-announced and tied to reasonable benchmarks, and explained better. If nothing else, there are workers who are immunocompromised. The poor, largely minority essential workers have suffered disproportionately.
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This is the timeline in many states. Would’ve been better to give some time for this, and a heads up.https://twitter.com/cmyeaton/status/1393347850088718339 …
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See this chart: you can see how fast exponential decay can work to our advantage. Throwing everything at it at once really quickens the process on the way down (the opposite of the terrible effect of even small delays on the way up).https://twitter.com/brycesub/status/1393319777318359045 …
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Let me repeat something that’s misunderstood. “Sociological reasons” does NOT mean falsely exaggerate risk to the vaccinated. Actually the opposite. (CDC should be clearer on transmission beyond “reduced”—too vague). It means give people time to prepare, and consider enforcement.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1393644139825205253 …
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@chrislhayes posed the request for clarification to the public in my NYT oped to Dr. Fauci and he said yes, that is true. (FWIW, I've no problem with that message or conclusion; however I wanted it to be spelled out explicitly. "Reduced" is vague). https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-all-chris-hayes-5-17-21-n1267740 …pic.twitter.com/5kTd3DcbPJ
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