Kind of an interesting follow up- on the cruise board- some person from Texas was bragging how there was such a sharp decline in cases, that the lifted the mask mandate state wide back in March. They were touting that the mask was useless based on the data....
It's been two months, and the covid rate has remained steady for the last two months- not a lot at just about 1500 confirmed cases per day, and another just under 1000 probables per day. Deaths are also pretty constant at 30-40 per day.
In a state like that, that's where I actually wonder if vaccine access is truly there for 100% of people who want one.
And looking at Florida data (which is important to us because cruising)- it's also pretty constant- more new cases, but roughly the same death rate.
Sadly, the alternate port for us in New Jersey is also pretty high. But at lest the long term trends are going down instead of being largely constant.
Finally, looking at my own state- no reason to not mask up. Trends are sharply down, but numbers are too high.