24 Jul 2021 1:39 am
St. Louis brings back mask mandate amid huge surge in COVID cases in Missouri as officials blame superspreader tourist town called Branson where the mayor is an anti-masker and almost 20% of residents are infectedVegas » 23 Jul 2021, 11:58 am » wrote: ↑ Look, anti-vaccinators, we all have a right to our opinion about things. What I don't think you understand is that the virus doesn't give a **** about your opinion. If you want to think it's a ll one big hoax so big drug companies can make billions, and whatever other conspiracies, then have it. Whatever. Nonetheless, the virus doesn't give a **** about your conspiracies. The fact is that this guy would be alive if he was vaccinated.
Can any anti-vaccinator here deny that this guy would still be alive if he was vaccinated?
A California man in his early 30s who derided vaccines on Twitter and Instagram died of COVID-19 (msn.com)
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- Missouri is seeing a surge in coronavirus cases, particularly in the south west
- Only 40 per cent of the state is fully vaccinated, placing it in the bottom 12
- On Friday St Louis reintroduced a mask mandate for indoor public areas
- Kansas City, the largest in the state, is expected to follow suit
- Springfield, in the south west of Missouri, is braced for surge in hospitalizations
- One town, Branson, 40 miles from Springfield, is thought to be at the epicenter
- The first Delta variant was recorded there on May 10 before spreading statewide
- Branson is famed for its country music shows and its anti mask mayor
'Branson has a lot of country-western shows,' he told Daily Beast. 'No Vaccines. No masks. A bunch of people indoors and air conditioning, tightly packed, listening to music, possibly singing along, i.e. a superspreading event.'
Johnson, who oversees a statewide program to monitor COVID-19 via wastewater samples, said they first spotted the Delta variant in Branson on May 10 - which quickly spread to surrounding towns. 'By week three, it was already pretty much everywhere,' he said.
The last sample from anywhere in Missouri that did not contain the Delta variant was on June 7. Delta was followed by a spike in cases within three weeks, wherever it appeared.
'It's pretty scary,' Johnson said. 'I don't know that the Branson is what seeded the entire outbreak in Missouri. 'But I always suspected.'
As the rest of the state shuts down, the town that caused the trouble is continuing like the pandemic never happened.
The infection rate for Branson and surrounding Taney County is 19.3 per cent, and there are 54 new cases a day in a county population of 57,000, which is 10 times the national per capita average. More than two-thirds of the population are unvaccinated,