The good news with numbers is brief. Yesterday, B.C.’s vaccination rate went from nine point something to ten point something percent. Today, so did Alberta and Ontario… all of which allowed me to change the percentage to one decimal place instead of two. That’s one small step for a decimal point; one giant leap for significant figures as it pertains to reaching the end of this thing. I look forward to Manitoba joining the club soon.
And that concludes the numbers-related good news.
Today, B.C. had over 900 new cases… for the first time since November. What’s also bad is that the new-case growth rate was over 1%… not a particularly good direction for the trend to be heading.
Here are the weekly new-case averages per week, starting 6 weeks ago:
433, 441, 480, 559, 537, 560, 699. There was a nice dip a few weeks ago… right around the time Dr. Henry was calling it a turning point; it’s up to us, yadda yadda… so, how’d we do? There you go.
We’re likely to see the new-case numbers crawl over 1,000 in the next few days… so, to be clear, we’re very much in a 3rd wave… the question is, how bad will it get? Nowhere near as bad as it’d be if we didn’t have improving weather and vaccines. But nowhere near as good as it’d be if we didn’t have variants… and if we’d all properly followed those rules we used to be so good at. Half of that we can’t control… but the other half…
Now it’s Spring Break; people are traveling and doing their own thing. This is how we roll, and for the people who’ve simply “had it” with the pandemic, none of this matters. Ask me in two weeks how much it really matters, but as good or bad as it gets, when it comes to reaching the finish line, it’s not that we’re not running towards it as fast as we can… it’s that we keep pushing it our further. It’s a tough race to figure out when the finish line keeps moving, but it’s even more frustrating when we’re the ones moving it.
Stay tuned for Monday’s numbers… and don’t hold your breath for any radical change in restrictions. If anything, we’re presently going the wrong way.
Yes..and it’s truly disheartening 😥
Damn! 😕
There is no good news. It’s a crying (literally) shame that people do not understand the simplest things they can do to help prevent the spread. No indoor large gatherings, social distancing, masks in public and hand hygiene. Not hard!! And we will get back to some sort of “normal” sooner rather than later (the way it looks now). The federal government bears much of the responsibility for part of the long term impact of this surge by not getting the vaccines into the system ahead of the variants. There are many excuses, but we elect them to show leadership, be proactive and take care of their constituents. They dropped that ball.
BC was so amazing at the start of all this… what happened? I don’t just blame the people who are “done with it” – the BC government’s response has been so markedly different recently. The variants are no joke, but to now allow religious services, at this precise time, seems irresponsible at best, dangerous at worst.. 🙁
One parent vaccinated, one to go (mine, I mean)!
I’m absolutely incredulous that Dr. Henry is allowing indoor religious services at a time when the numbers are rising exponentially and the Brazilian variant (vaccine resistant) is spreading fast. I’m tired of living almost as a recluse because nobody else is protecting me. I’m single. I have no bubble. I have no vaccine. This is not fair.