More short takes after spending a few hours traveling to Richmond and back to look at induction ranges. No place here had any or were going to get any in the short run, so I let my fingers do the typing first to obtain phone numbers of appliance merchants in Richmond and then to punch the digits. I stopped calling at the first place that had any. The two they had each had pluses and minnuses; the question is how those figure in the difference in price? The store is holding both until Monday afternoon; we told them we'd call Monday morning and tell them which one we want.
And so ... the FDA is expected to give the Pfizer vaccine full approval next week, perhaps as early as Monday. Some public health experts hope that this might help some vaccine-hesitant people become vaccine recipients. Fingers crossed that it works.
The local university has "dis-enrolled" over 200 students who failed to provide proof of covid vaccination or exemption therefrom. Only about 40 had actually registered for classes meaning (that start Monday or Tuesday) that the others may have decided they weren't coming after all. The school said that it had reminded students of the requirement by text, email, snail mail, phone call, and phone call to parental unit(s), so they can't say they did not know about it. Meanwhile, Rice University in Texas will require masking but not vaccination; being in Texas means that legally they cannot make such requirements. Even so, they have delayed the start of classes by two days and will run all classes online through September 3.
The archdiocese of Philadelphia is joining those of New York City, San Diego, and Honolulu in not sanctioning religious exemptions for covid vaccination mandates. The archdiocese of El Paso is even requiring their employees be vaccinated.
New York City is imposing a vaccine requirement for high school athletes and coaches in what it terms "high-risk" sports. Those would be ones with definite or likely close contact between players. Right now, those include football, volleyball, basketball, lacrosse, and wrestling. So far soccer, baseball, tennis, track, and gymnastics are considered at low risk. Hawaii has a similar mandate in place.
All nursing home employees must be vaccinated as a condition of employment, a requirement that will take effect sometime in September. Facilities not complying will face fines or lose eligibility to get federal reimbursements. I'm in an internet quilting guild and heard today from one of our older (70s or 80s) members that she'd finally put her husband with Alzheimer's in a memory care unit after years of taking care of him at home. She went to visit him today and returned home to an afternoon call from the facility that a staffer had tested positive so her husband would be tested, and she should get tested herself. God, that sucks! I will admit that one reason I am continuing to stay alone save for things that require me in person--such as picking out major appliances I'll be using--masked and distanced is that I don't want to take covid to my mom in assisted living, where it appears a third of the aides did not want to be vaccinated the first time around. She has enough of a chance to catch it from one of them; she doesn't need more chances from me.
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I'm on three lateral flow tests a week as I need one every time I see mum and MIL. I would expect every staff member to be vaccinated or be looking for other employment, it's an area where personal choice can have a bigger impact on those around you than on yourself. How can you be in a caring profession and knowingly put those in your care at risk?
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