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| Mary The Asian Elephant at San Diego Zoo (Taken 8.4.21) |
I was wrong.
A couple months ago, the Sierra Club was urging the City of San Diego to close Boomer Beach at Point La Jolla to protect the pups of the Sea Lion Rookery. As a somewhat regular visitor in the past, I was firmly against closing the beach. I thought new signs, docents, and lifeguards could help reduce the interactions with selfie-seeking tourists and the sea lions.
I was wrong.
Look at how the country has handled COVID-19 and mask mandates. Look at how travelers are acting out of control on flights. Look at how people are treating restaurant and hotel and other service industry sectors. Look at how supposed "Law and Order" people behaved on January 6th. And look how political leaders are still supporting The Big Lie.
Not all people are terrible and awful. But there are enough terrible and awful people who consistently ruin everything for everyone. The overused refrain is "this is why we can't have nice things," and here we are again.
So the City is trying to get an emergency permit to close off Boomer Beach below the wall until pupping season is over for the sea lions (which is a separate pupping season from the seals at Casa Beach/Children's Pool) and now I guess I'm on board. I wish it didn't have to happen but people just haven't been able to self-police and so I hope it moves forward. I'm sad, but I guess I should have believed my own eyes and frustration instead of hoping for the best.
Beyond that, it was a nice and much more tolerable weather day in San Diego. In my Twitter reads, Lambda was back in the news after a study found it to be vaccine evasive...but not with MRNA vaccines so we shouldn't panic yet. But we should be aware and do everything we can in our power to squash COVID-19 now, with the Delta variant and all the others surely to come to our shores. I posted a video below that is worth watching about the current state of the pandemic, even if from an Australian viewpoint (which has far less vaccinations than we currently do.)
Darren and I picked up some Roberto's tacos and went to the San Diego Zoo and ate at the big open patio by Devi the Asian Elephant. Then we walked them off until the 9pm closing and it was kind of a perfect night out as far as crowd and weather and all that.
If you are out and about in the world, make sure you've got your vaccine card or get your digital record because every day, more and more places are signing on to vaccine mandates. As it stands, Casbah is reverting back to mandatory masking regardless of vaccination status and I'm still advocating strongly for all of our local venues to collectively require vaccines in every way I can. Fingers crossed.
Stay safe out there.
- COVID-19:
- "The way to deal with this is clear. The problem is the will to do so. And really, this isn't a war against a virus, this is an information war, it's a propaganda war." - Dr. David Berger, via TheJuiceMedia. This is definitely worth the watch if you wanna understand where things stand with COVID-19, albeit from an Australian perspective: We need to talk about how Covid is airborne | with Dr David Berger (Juicemedia Youtube)
- #COVIDSafeZones: COVID Collaborative has mobilized dozens of public health and science experts and former officials from the Biden, Trump, Obama, and Bush Administrations to provide business leaders with clear and actionable measures they can adopt to keep their workers, customers and communities safe. We invite other private sector leaders to join this effort to beat the pandemic and restore our national vitality and way of life.
- Delta infections among vaccinated likely contagious; Lambda variant shows vaccine resistance in lab - reuters (8.2.21)
- Important note: Lambda vaccine resistance was in a lab and was with the Coronavac vaccine, which is NOT an MRNA vaccine.
- SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant exhibits higher infectivity and immune resistance - (Non Peer REviewed Paper) bioRxiv (7.28.21)
- Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 - 3 August 2021 - WHO
- Globally, weekly cases have been increasing for more than a month, with over 4 million cases reported in the past week. An average of over 570 000 cases were reported each day over the past week as compared to a little over 540 000 cases reported daily the week before. This increasing trend is largely attributed to substantial increases in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Pacific Regions which reported a 37% and 33% increase respectively as compared to the previous week. Overall, the number of deaths reported this week decreased by 8% as compared to the previous week, with over 64 000 deaths reported. However, the Western Pacific Region and the Eastern Mediterranean Region showed a sharp increase in new deaths as compared to the previous week, 48% and 31% respectively. The cumulative number of cases reported globally is now nearly 197 million and the number of cumulative deaths has reached 4.2 million. Click report link for detailed information on SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (VOCs) Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta which includes updates on the geographic distribution of VOCs.
- WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID- 4 August 2021
- Politics:
- Analysis: Delta variant upends politicians' COVID calculus - AP News (8.4.21)
- White House:
- Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, August 4, 2021
- The BIB (Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill)
- White House Releases State Fact Sheets Highlighting the Impact of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Nationwide
- President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate Nine Foreign Policy and National Security Leaders
- President Biden Announces 11 Key Nominations
- Nominations Sent to the Senate
- Statement by NSC Spokesperson Emily Horne on National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Call with the Bucharest Nine Ambassadors
- Statement by NSC Spokesperson Emily Horne on National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with Ukrainian Officials
- State Dept:
- News:
- Southwestern College to Require Vaccines, Masks for Fall 2021 Semester -- Southwestern College (8.4.21)
- Excessive Heat Warning and Advisories Extended Through Thursday evening, 8/5/21 - SD County Emergency (8.4.21)
- San Diego City Council Passes Parks Master Plan Focusing On Citywide Equity = City News Service/kpbs (8.3.21)
- City Applies For Emergency Closure Of La Jolla Sea Lion Rookery - City News Service/kpbs (8.3.21)
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 8.4.21 10:20pm):
- 200,239,381 Known Cases
- 4,256,797 Known Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- JHU
- 35,330,873 Cases
- 614,785 Deaths
- CDC Data Tracker:
- +103,455 New Cases/35,286,935 Known Cases
- +614 New Deaths/612,386 Known Deaths
- 402,010,455 Doses Delivered
- 348,102,478 Doses Administered
- 192,614,017 Partially Vaccinated
- 165,334,987 Fully Vaccinated
- 49.8% of Total Population
- 58.3% of Population ≥ 12 Years of Age
- 60.7% of Population ≥ 18 Years of Age
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
- Vaccination progress dashboard
- Coronavirus: Resources for Californians
- R-effective: 1.36
- 50,069,965 Doses Delivered/44,271,553 Doses Administered
- 3,268,683 Partially Vaccinated/21,406,856 Fully Vaccinated
- 8,552 New Cases/3,889,641 Total Cases (18.3 new cases/100k)
- 54 New Deaths/64,150 Total Deaths (0.04 new deaths/100k)
- 7.0% 7-day test positivity rate
- 5,282 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (+162 patients, +3.2% from prior day)
- 1,135 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (+44 patients, +4% from prior day)
- 1,994 ICU beds available (-101 from prior day)
- San Diego County
- Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
- Vaccination Locations San Diego
- Vaccination Dashboard
- San Diego County Of Education School Reopening Dashboard
- COVID ActNow Daily Updates for San Diego Metro
- CDC Data:
- 1,471,077 Fully Vaccinated
- 44.1% of Total Population
- 51.4% of Population ≥ 12 Years of Age
- 52.4% of Population ≥ 18 Years of Age
- State Data:
- R-effective: 1.3
- 1,168 New Cases/300,189 Total Cases
- 8.5% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)
- 5 Deaths/3,803 Total Deaths
- 407 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (+3 patients, +0.7% from prior day)
- 81 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-3 patients, -3.6% from prior day)
- 200 ICU beds available (-23 from prior day)
- County Data:
- Over 2 Million San Diegans Now Fully Vaccinated
- 908 New Cases/301,100 Total Cases
- 20.4 Cases/100k
- 2 New Daily Deaths/3,805 Total Deaths
- 4,514,675 Doses Received/4,340,649 Doses Administered
- 2,299,999 Partially Vaccinated/2,015,700 Fully Vaccinated
- +54,041 Newly Fully Vaccinated Since Last Week
- 71.9% 12+ Population Fully Vaccinated/60.2% Total Population Fully Vaccinated
- 7.7% Daily Test Positivity/8.1% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/7.8% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 48.2% Case Investigation
- +5 Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations
- 0 Day Over Day ICU Patients
- 16.9% COVID-19 Hospitalizations (+388 patients. +397% over 30 days)
- 24% ICU Capacity (+79 patients. +295% over 30 days)
- 36 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 59 Community Outbreaks (July 28-Aug 3 7-day)/112 Active Community Outbreaks
- 19 restaurant/bar settings
- 14 business settings
- 5 faith-based settings
- 4 restaurant settings
- 4 daycare/preschool/childcare settings
- 3 K-12 school settings
- 3 hotel/resort/spa setting
- 2 emergency services settings
- 1 retail settings
- 1 government setting
- 1 health care setting
- 1 construction setting
- 1 residence setting
- Universities:
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