tl;dr: We will need boosters. It’s just a question of when. No way we reach elimination, let alone eradication, with all the antivax propaganda going on. Roll up your sleeves, folks!
You can be right, of course, but OTH I would not rule out incompetence.
I’m still livid about the hack, but I haven’t followed the news. Is there a current summary you would advise to read?
Hope you and your family are ok…
Finland might want to reconsider. Oslo is dropping their lockdown restrictions next week, their infection rate is not negligible, and they are still far from a high vaccination penetration.
Umm, no thanks. Tell them we already got ~one.
Is Harry’s Music still there? I used to date one of Harry’s granddaughters. I can’t really say I knew Harry, but I was at the other end of a long table for some Sunday dinners back in the day.
I hope to see more sharing like this.
Sadly no; it closed around 5 years ago. He had a good run though; Harry opened the shop in '46.
This means that people living within the Lapland Hospital District do not have to enter quarantine when travelling to Norway.
However, the incidence rate is still so high in the West Ostrobothnia Hospital District that the quarantine requirement will be maintained by Norwegian authorities for travellers from that region.
Norway has classified Finland’s hospital districts into yellow and red areas according to the incidence rate, with 25 infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a two-week period considered to be the upper limit.
This means that the hospital districts of Kainuu, Central Ostrobothnia, Southern Ostrobothnia, South Savo and Vaasa are also all considered to be yellow or low-incidence areas.
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Finnish authorities had announced on Thursday that it will lift border traffic restrictions for residents of border communities at Finland’s land border with Norway.
I’ve finally got my invitation to go and get my first dose of the vaccine. I’m due to get it next Sunday.
I always knew it would take a while for them to get to me, because I wasn’t in any of the priority groups, so It’s good that they’re finally getting around to it.
Here’s the national picture- We’re over halfway there with first doses:
Thanks for the wishes. Current crisis over anyway. The mess ups in the hospital were odd. Unfortunately I’ve been there quite a bit in the last while and never seen confusion and lack of information like that.
Unfortunately I don’t have a good source On the hack. Information isn’t really coming out. I did read that the decryption tool sent as a proof of concept works. I don’t know about the state of their backups. The fuckery of course hurts the vulnerable:
Holy hell.
This article is 2 weeks old. Today, mucormycosis cases in india even made news in Germany.
In other news, I’ve been to the inner city of a 100k inhabitants city in Germany. I haven’t seen such crowds since more than a year.
Local incidence there is below 50 since more than 5 days, which means many things are now allowed which weren’t a week ago. Which does not mean it would be sensible to do them.
What the hell.
It’s complicated. All of Hawaii, including Maui, had and still has pre-flight testing requirements to avoid quarantine after a flight. Maui also recently introduced an additional post-flight rapid testing requirement… They’re now saying that they will let vaccinated people bypass the second requirement. The first stays in place for all.
This is all well and good, but the problem is there’s no test to see who’s lying about being vaccinated and using well-forged vax cards due to their own bloated sense of entitlement. 
I agree, but at least they’re getting tested before flying to the state, that’s more than most places.
It is a matter of consistency. When Maui instituted the test, they excluded vaccinated travelers from other islands, otherwise it would have been politically impossible; flying is the only way citizens can travel from one part of the state to another, it is like commuting for us. A mainland traveler who wants to cheat can just fly into Honolulu then take an interisland flight, no fake vacc card necessary.
I think at this point most of our infections are local anyway, thanks to sleazy megachurches last Easter, eased requirements at gyms and bars, and our large extended families.
