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Seconded. by skeptic

Delta is more transmissible, but I have not seen anyone suggest this level of risk. Roughly two times in comparison to previous strains seems to be the common assertion, even on the CDC website. If you have better stats, please provide them.

The real question for me is when we are going to stop insisting on trying to protect people that refuse to protect themselves. COVID is out there and it is never going away. At some level, transmission among those who are at low risk of complications, who have been vaccinated (breakthrough infections), and those who assume and accept the risk simply accelerates the inevitable. If hospitals in northern Indiana were being overwhelmed, that would be one thing, but I don’t believe that is true. In the meantime, people who have individual concerns can certainly wear masks or simply stay home.

I am still astounded by tales I hear at work of colleagues who still have not traveled or eaten at a restaurant or seen a movie or attended a baseball game in almost 18 months. I began taking these “risks” again about 16 months ago and have not looked back. Not sure why it is still everyone else’s business now that the vaccines are not only readily available, but in many cases reimbursed in handsome ways. Baseball stadiums have been packed all summer long and I am familiar with no data to implicate them as “super-spreader” events. If MLB can treat its patrons as adults with their own discretion and autonomy, why can’t Notre Dame?