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| The Skyfari at San Diego Zoo Is Back In Operation (Taken 2.2.22) |
Earlier on Wednesday while walking around the San Diego Zoo, I stopped to take this photo of the Skyfari back in action. I had an exchange with a woman who quite clearly demonstrated her racism without actually saying anything racist. She asked what I was photographing. When I told her I was shooting the Skyfari, she said something to effect of how she's glad it's working again and asked if they caught the thugs who shook it off the cable. When I said they had arrested them for felony vandalism she was glad that they were gonna make those kids pay. Clearly she had an idea of who would do such a thing. When I told her they were Marines, suddenly she stiffened, suddenly she was sure that their command would and ought to handle them, that the punishment from their command would be worse than civil punishment would be. "They won't want to put them in the brig because they invest so much in training them. I was married to a marine." Once she found out they were Marines, her stance on prosecution suddenly diminished. She didn't have to say anything racist for me to hear the dog whistle in the length of the exchange.
Rules for thee and not for me. This is why I'm so annoyed with Newsom's little folly at the game. Just wear the fucking mask. Keep it on. Or have a beverage in your hands at all times. It isn't that hard to be frozen in a moment or photo that people will politicize. The indoor mask mandate is going to expire on February 15. If CDPH even tries to extend it, the pushback is going to be crazy, even though it would just revert back to mandatory masks for unvaccinated, which was as good as having no policy at all. Maskholes and anti-vaxxers are one and the same.
Tonight I worked at the Casbah and accepted the job because I'm outside the entire time and knew it was going to be a smaller, mellow crowd. But hearing so many people talking about their pandemic point of views makes my head explode. It's true, we don't definitively know what the future of this pandemic means, but we better damn well hope the next variant or the one after that doesn't transmit as easy as omicron and completely evade vaccines or we are super fucked. We're stuck under 65% of Americans vaccinated. 23.6% of all US cases since the beginning of reporting were tallied in the last 28 days. This past week we've had like 20 deaths a day in San Diego, with 99 from 1/23-1/29 when there were 21 TOTAL just the week before that. It's not terrible for those of us vaxxed and boosted, but it is for everyone else.
It's 1am and I just got home from work so I'll update all the other usual stuff on Thursday.
Stay safe out there.
- COVID-19:
- Omicron’s sister variant spreads faster. So why did the one we call Omicron hit first? - Stat News (2.2.22)
- US COVID-19 cases drop, but hospitalizations in unvaccinated still high - CIDRAP (2.2.22)
- Scientists deliberately gave people COVID — here’s what they learnt. Only half of participants who were exposed to the coronavirus developed infections, with mostly mild symptoms. - nature (2.2.22)
- Flu Cases Continue to Decrease in County - County News Center (2.2.22)
- Politics:
- Corporations send large donations to GOP group behind abortion bans and voter suppression - Popular.info (2.2.22)
- City of San Diego delays implementation of Short Term Rental Ordinances, again. And we can't figure out why there's a housing shortage and rent gouging throughout the city.
- CIty of San Diego Short-Term Residential Occupancy (STRO) (Updated on February 1, 2022)
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 2.2.22 9:20pm):
- 384,910,386 Known Cases/86,863,789 28-Day New Cases
- 5,701,000 Known Deaths/231,448 28-Day New Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- American Academy of Pediatrics Children and COVID-19 Dashboard
- JHU
- 75,680,487 Cases/17,891,241 28 Day New Cases
- 894,316 Deaths/59,754 28-Day New Deaths
- CDC Data Tracker:
- +287,114 New Cases/75,302,383 Known Cases
- +3,916 New Deaths/888,784 Known Deaths
- 668,308,025 Doses Delivered
- 540,630,198 Doses Administered
- 250,378,993 Partially Vaccinated (75.4%)
- 212,130,684 Fully Vaccinated
- 63.9% of Total Population
- 67.9% of Population ≥ 5 Years of Age
- 72.6% of Population ≥ 12 Years of Age
- 74.2% of Population ≥ 18 Years of Age
- 88,614,084 Boosters (41.8%)
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
- Vaccination progress dashboard
- Coronavirus: Resources for Californians
- R-effective: 0.67
- 80,990,635 Doses Delivered/69,708,035 Doses Administered
- 3,331,464 Partially Vaccinated/27,592,347 Fully Vaccinated
- 13,053,075 Boosters Administered (54.1%)
- 25,550 New Cases/7,941,318Total Cases (159.8 new cases/100k)
- 239 New Deaths/79,621 Total Deaths (0.2 new deaths/100k)
- 13.4% 7-day test positivity rate
- 12,995 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-372 patients, -2.8% from prior day)
- 2,435 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-59 patients, -2.4% from prior day)
- 1,446 ICU beds available (-82 from prior day)
- San Diego County
- Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
- Vaccination Locations San Diego
- Vaccination Dashboard
- COVID ActNow Daily Updates for San Diego Metro
- San Diego Unified School District COVID Dashboard
- State Data:
- R-effective: 0.63
- 2,438 New Cases/701,009 Total Cases
- 19% Daily Positivity
- 24 Deaths/4,710 Total Deaths
- 1,129 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-29 patients, -2.5% from prior day)
- 217 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (+3 patients, +1.4% from prior day)
- ICU beds available ( from prior day)
- County Data:
- COVID-19 Weekly Update
- San Diego County COVID-19 Watch
- 2,925 New Cases/702,789 Total Cases
- Case rate: 215.6 per 100,000 residents overall (7day average after 7 day lag)
- 253.4 for fully vaccinated people
- 140.6 for fully vaccinated people + booster
- 419.9 for not fully vaccinated San Diegans.
- +25 New Daily Deaths/4,735 Total Deaths
- 7,238,465 Doses Received/6,667,227 Doses Administered
- 2,876,309 Partially Vaccinated/2,530,203 Fully Vaccinated
- 1,072,823 Booster Dose
- 14,466 Newly Fully Vaccinated Since Last Week
- 80.4% 5+ Population Fully Vaccinated/75.7% Total Population Fully Vaccinated
- 12.2% Daily Positivity/27.2% 7-day average/12.2% 7-day average after 7-day lag/18.6% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- New Tests Reported
- 1/30/2022= 16,768
- 1/29/2022= 31,175
- 1/28/2022= 42,145
- 1/27/2022= 44,493
- 15.1% Case Investigation
- +59 Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations
- +6 Day Over Day COVID-19 ICU Patients
- -6.8% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (1,129 patients. +66% over 30 days)
- 15% ICU Capacity (217 patients. 79% over 30 days)
- 31 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 33 Community Outbreaks (7-day)/139 Active Community Outbreaks
- Universities:
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