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Rockman


THE AUSTRALIAN --- 9 August 2021

Good lord...just read the last bit of the article. Forgot the the Winter Olympics is just around the corner.

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bye bye johnny
Unfortunately there has been a confirmed COVID case within the Counting Crows touring party. Out of an abundance of caution, we are postponing tonight’s show in Boston, as well as the Aug 10 show in Youngstown, OH. We’re working quickly to find new dates for these shows.



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Eagles adopt the "Pass Sanitaire" ;-)
[www.rollingstone.com]

"The November 5th show at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena requires that guests be fully vaccinated 14 days prior to the show, while children under 12 years old may show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test. Tickets go on sale Friday at 1 pm E.T."

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I was going to post this in the Eric Clapton thread but after seeing BV's request to just post music comments in that thread and keep covid or political post in this thread I will abide.

Here is Queen's Brian May's take on Clapton.

"I love Eric Clapton, he’s my hero, but he has very different views from me in many ways.
He’s a person who thinks it’s OK to shoot animals for fun, so we have our disagreements, but I would never stop respecting the man.
Anti-vax people, I’m sorry, I think they’re fruitcakes.
There’s plenty of evidence to show that vaccination helps.
On the whole, they’ve been very safe. There’s always going to be some side effect in any drug you take, but to go around saying vaccines are a plot to kill you,
I’m sorry, that goes in the fruitcake jar for me."

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Eagles adopt the "Pass Sanitaire" ;-)
[www.rollingstone.com]

"The November 5th show at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena requires that guests be fully vaccinated 14 days prior to the show, while children under 12 years old may show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test. Tickets go on sale Friday at 1 pm E.T."

Interesting to see kids under age 12 with a proof of vaccination.

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bye bye johnny
Houston venue has canceled Jason Isbell's August 11 show:

The Jason Isbell and Lucinda Williams show scheduled for
August 11, 2021 at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion has unfortunately been canceled. Refunds are available at the point of purchase. More info -> [bit.ly]

[twitter.com]

The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion fully supports and commends Jason Isbell and his team for their commitment to the health of their fans, crew, band and venue staff. To implement a major change in policy such as what is requested will take more time than we have.

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Jason Isbell's response:

The pavilion statement is false. Live Nation, the promoter, was on board but the venue owner flat-out refused to even attempt to implement the policy.

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For those who say vaccines and masks do not work, please explain this.

California doing much better with delta variant than Florida, Texas. Here's why
Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money
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Los Angeles Times
Aug. 11, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a significant surge in both coronavirus cases and hospitalizations this summer, California so far has managed to avoid the sky-high infection rates and increasingly overcrowded hospitals some other states are now experiencing.

California’s coronavirus case rate remains below the national average and significantly less than that of Florida and Texas: two common points of comparison given their population size and distinctly different pandemic responses.

Experts say California’s better-than-average vaccination rates and newly implemented mandatory mask policies in parts of the state have helped prevent a more grim situation.

While governors in Florida, Texas and other states have opposed allowing local governments to mandate the wearing of masks, California has allowed counties to enact such orders in indoor public spaces for everyone age 2 and older, regardless of vaccination status.

“I am hopeful for California and Los Angeles, because of the fact that we have higher levels of vaccination, and we have increased numbers of people stepping up to the plate and getting vaccinated,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, medical epidemiologist and infectious diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. “However, we still have a ways to go to achieve a higher level of community immunity, or herd immunity, because of the increased transmissibility of the delta variant.”

California is reporting 141.1 new coronavirus cases for every 100,000 residents over the last seven days — a rate half that of Texas, 297.8; and less than one-fourth that of Florida’s rate of 653.8, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. California’s rate is also less than the national average of 232.1.

The flood of COVID-19 patients newly admitted to Florida hospitals is now far worse than at any point during its winter surge. In early January, Florida was reporting more than 1,150 new COVID-19 patients admitted a day. But over the last week, the state saw an average of 2,071 new COVID-19 hospital admissions daily.

By contrast, California is reporting 772 new COVID-19 hospital admissions daily, just 32% of its winter peak of 2,380. On a per capita basis, Florida’s rate of new daily hospitalizations is five times worse than California’s.

Texas is now reporting 1,403 new COVID-19 hospitalizations daily, 75% of its winter peak of 1,873.

There are also some signs that California’s delta surge is slowing after public officials in many counties instituted universal masking in indoor public settings. Some businesses have also started demanding proof of vaccination as a condition of employment or entry.

During the week that ended Sunday, L.A. County reported a total of 20,979 new coronavirus cases — a modest 6.5% increase from the previous week, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Tuesday. By comparison, the county saw a 22% increase the week before.

Over the same timeframe, the rest of California reported 55,422 total cases, a 20% increase from the week before. The week before that, the increase was 57%.

L.A. County this summer was one of the first local governments in the nation to recommend, and then require, the wearing of masks in indoor public settings — a move that was soon followed by others including Sacramento and Santa Barbara counties and much of the San Francisco Bay Area.

“Data from around the world and from our county have repeatedly shown that masking is a valuable layer of protection against transmission of respiratory viruses,” Ferrer said.

Officials stressed the delta variant continues to be a public health threat, and they expect cases to rise further in the coming weeks. Yet they hope the steps already taken will flatten, and eventually reverse, the pandemic’s trajectory without resorting to more stringent measures.

The biggest reason for that optimism is California’s relatively robust level of vaccine coverage. According to the latest CDC figures, 77.5% of eligible Californians — those who are at least 12 years old — have already gotten at least one dose, and about 63% are considered fully vaccinated.

In Florida, roughly 69% of similarly aged residents are at least partially vaccinated, and 57% have completed their inoculation series. The comparable rates in Texas are 64.3% and 53.7%, respectively, federal figures show.

Officials and experts say the overwhelming majority of people currently being hospitalized for COVID-19 in California and across the country have yet to be vaccinated.

Out of 117 people admitted to Los Angeles County’s public hospitals primarily for COVID-19 between June 15 and Aug. 5, 112 were not fully vaccinated and only five were fully vaccinated, according to Dr. Christina Ghaly, the county’s director of health services.

“The vaccine saves lives,” she said Tuesday. “It reduces the risk of infection, it reduces the risk of spreading the virus to others and, critically, in doing so it reduces the risk of those individuals serving as a petri dish, really, in which the virus can continue to mutate into progressively more dangerous forms that put everyone at risk.”

Aside from vaccines, health officials and experts have long noted that pandemic conditions vary based on a number of factors. Some areas may have stricter coronavirus-related rules in place, or are home to residents who — for whatever reason — are more likely to take individual precautions in their daily lives.

Other areas may largely scoff at any such limitations.

Perhaps nowhere is the gap between California versus Florida and Texas more apparent than when it comes to masks.

California has urged all residents, even those who are fully vaccinated, to wear masks indoors while in public, and is requiring them in K-12 schools.

The governors of Texas and Florida, on the other hand, have largely banned schools and municipal governments from instituting such mandates, though some local leaders have defied those orders.

In light of the surge, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the state health department to use staffing agencies to find additional medical staff and also sent a letter to the Texas Hospital Assn. requesting that hospitals postpone elective medical procedures.

Austin, Texas, emergency room doctor Natasha Kathuria — a native of Orlando, Fla. — said she hears from Florida doctors that the situation there is even worse, and worries that’s where Texas is headed. She’s already had to send patients home because she didn’t have the capacity to treat them.

“This is disaster medicine,” she said. “We’ve never felt this disheartened during the pandemic.”

Though California officials have voiced some concern with rapidly rising hospitalizations, they’ve generally said they believe the state’s healthcare system won’t come under the same sort of stress as during the state’s devastating fall-and-winter wave.

Though the surge of new infections has started to wash over California’s hospitals, the death toll from COVID-19 has remained relatively low at an average of about 32 fatalities per day over the last week. That’s a far cry from the regular triple-digit counts seen during previous surges.

Though it’s possible death counts may not surge as they have earlier in the pandemic — especially since many of the most vulnerable Californians, namely the elderly and those with underlying health conditions, have gotten vaccinated — Ferrer cautioned that it’s still too soon to say for sure.

In L.A. County, she said, someone who dies from COVID-19 was diagnosed an average of 37 days beforehand.

“With our case increase having begun relatively recently, it’s therefore too early to fully assess the impact of this latest wave of infection,” she said.

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I don't understand the 'strategy' that comes with going unvaccinated. If you live in a country without universal health care, and you don't have medical insurance, isn't it critical to avoid ending up in the hospital for a bank-breaking stay?

I mean aside from generally not wanting to be in the hospital, if you can't afford insurance, you certainly can't afford a lengthy hospital stay...a free vaccine removes that issue from you completely.

Is this a consideration for the unvaxxed, and if not, why not?

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I don't understand the 'strategy' that comes with going unvaccinated. If you live in a country without universal health care, and you don't have medical insurance, isn't it critical to avoid ending up in the hospital for a bank-breaking stay?

I mean aside from generally not wanting to be in the hospital, if you can't afford insurance, you certainly can't afford a lengthy hospital stay...a free vaccine removes that issue from you completely.

Is this a consideration for the unvaxxed, and if not, why not?

Thy are more worried by being tracked by the government with the imaginary microchips, becoming magnetic and not putting bad things in their body besides large amounts of alcohol, fast food and opiates.

Let's face it many/most of these are not the brightest lightbulbs in more ways than one.

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Rock The South Festival in Cullman AL August 13-14 featuring headliners Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert



[rockthesouth.com]

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From promoter Shane Quick:

On fans who want to attend Rock the South but are concerned about COVID:

“I’m a concert promoter. I’m not a scientist, and I’m not a doctor. So anything that I’m going to say is going to be my opinion. But in that, I feel like if it is something you’re worried about, stay home, definitely. We want to see everyone there. If it’s something you’re worried about, go get vaccinated. I can tell you me and my family have been vaccinated. It’s something we chose to do. As a festival, we’re not telling people to go get vaccinated. You know in this state, in this part of the world, people don’t react well to being told what to do. You have to let people make their own decisions. I can tell you for me and my family, we decided to be vaccinated. The owners of this festival, we decided to be vaccinated.”

On keeping people safe at Rock the South:

“This is my home. This is my festival. We take it very serious. We take people’s safety very serious. We love the people that come here. This is a labor or love for us. We’re going to look out for people. If we have to zig and zag and make changes at a whim to keep people safe, that’s what we’ll do. I do believe that the standards of the way we’re running the festival this year are above and beyond any national standard, and even more indoor shows. We’re going to pull up our bootstraps and wait for next year when it’s going to be even bigger. Good times ahead for all of us. I can’t wait to where we’re all living life without any fear, worry or hesitation. But until then, we’re going to be wildly precautious, do all the things we’ve got to do to be smart and put others above ourselves.”

[www.al.com]