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This week's Three Muses challenge theme was "It's TIME for new beginnings!"
Despite New York City having daily record breaking numbers of covid-19 cases, higher than they've ever seen before, even at the previous "height of the pandemic", their Dec 31, 2021 New Year's Eve Celebration / Times Square Ball Drop will happen, just like it did in 2020. I knew they wouldn't cancel it this year.
The ad revenue money generating show must go on, despite ever more dire news stories about medical facilities facing staffing shortages due to vaccinated staff catching covid-19 and needing to quarantine at home for ten (10) days. Then, on December 23, 2021, the CDC changed their quarantine rules, but only for health workers, saying they only needed to quarantine for five (5) days, but everyone else still has to do it for ten (10) days. I wonder if they'll expand that rule change to cover airline staff next.
December 27, 2021 update: Now the CDC says, "Everyone, regardless of vaccination status" only needs to quarantine for five (5) days. Yeah, that is based on Science, and has nothing to do with all of those US Airline Flight Cancellations Christmas Eve and weekend. Amazingly, the CDC didn't know that Science on December 23 (four days earlier), when they said health workers only needed to quarantine for 5 days, but everyone else still had to quarantine for 10 days.
This year's "scaled back" New York City New Year's Eve extravaganza will be fifteen thousand (15,000) double vaxxed / triple vaxxed people converging in Times Square, wearing masks. Last year, despite covid-19 cases in New York City being significantly higher at the end of December 2020, compared to September 2020, the Ball Drop occurred, but the "Never Forget 9/11/2001" memorial service (in September 2020) was cancelled.
The vaxxed revelers won't have to worry about Biden's stark warning of a "Winter of Death" because that message only applies to the unvaccinated. Those "rare" "breakthrough" cases, where the triple vaxxed caught covid-19 are rare, and Pfizer said they'll have their Omicron specific vaccine ready by March 2022, so then people can become quadruple vaxxed. But because it will most likely be another two dose shot, spaced about one month apart, probably plus a booster shot three months or less after that, they will become the quintuple or sextuple vaxxed.
December 16, 2021:
United States President Joe Biden: "For unvaccinated: We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death, if you're unvaccinated."
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