Bars allowed to stay open later
I put this in below as an update, but it’s big news that bars are now allowed to stay open later – midnight for drinks, doors to close at 2.
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Blork 18:37 on 2021-06-14 Permalink
Perhaps worth noting that Boris Johnson today reversed the UK’s opening up plan (or more precisely, delayed it for a few more weeks) because of the increasing number of cases, primarily Delta variant and primarily among young people.
Of course the situation here is different, but is it all that different? That said, I like the way the numbers are going (+123 today) but I wish they were positing the positivity rate and not just the raw numbers. The number of tests is going down (no surprise: with more vaccinations there will be fewer cases and more importantly, more asymptomatic cases), so that +123 needs to be placed in the context of the number of tests done; and that’s basically what the positivity rate tells us.
DeWolf 19:13 on 2021-06-14 Permalink
The situation is very different. I was just looking at the data from the UK today. Young people still aren’t eligible for vaccination – the cut off is currently 25 in England and 30 in the other countries. And vaccine coverage is very uneven. Fewer than half of Londoners have gotten their first doses.
By contrast, at least two thirds of *every single age group* in Quebec has been vaccinated or has an appointment to be vaccinated. And the second dose rollout is happening very quickly, just like the first dose rollout went faster than anyone expected.
Another factor to consider: around half the vaccine doses in the UK are Astra-Zeneca, whereas the overwhelming majority of vaccines in Canada are Pfizer, which has been shown to be much more effective against the Delta variant.
Blork 21:18 on 2021-06-14 Permalink
OK, that’s good to hear. No doubt there will be an increase in the days and weeks to come with all the resurgent canoodling, but hopefully it will just be a bump and not a wave.