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Yeah it’s all over the news.
The anti-vaxxers are bugging out over the ever increasing vaccine mandates.
They’re all either threatening to, or already have pulled their kids out of schools.
And the new commanderess in chief of NY is talking silly about doing vaccine mandates.
Pretty hard to mandate a vaccine that isn't even available to kids under 12, and which is still under EUA for under 16, but I'm not surprised the anti vaxxers haven't figured that out. Much easier to be angry over something that isn't even possible.
There have been statutes imposing vaccine mandates in schools for centuries. A smallpox vaccine mandate was enacted in Massachusetts 190 years ago. There has been a state-wide vaccine statute in NY since the Civil War. Even before COVID, one could not attend or be employed at a school in NYS without vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, varicella and meningococca. To pretend this is new or adding COVID to the list some wild government overreach simply ignores reality.
Aside from the hardcore anti-vaxxers I think the issue is the time frame. People are still afraid that in a few years people will be coming down with strange cancers and glowing in the dark and such. Mandated vaccines for schools and whatever have a track record of sorts of being “safe”, they’ve been around a long time.
This covid shot is brand new with no long term testing. So yeah, from most of the people I’ve spoken to that are hesitant to get it, they just don’t feel it’s been around long enough to really be “safe”, or not.
Pretty hard to mandate a vaccine that isn't even available to kids under 12, and which is still under EUA for under 16, but I'm not surprised the anti vaxxers haven't figured that out. Much easier to be angry over something that isn't even possible.
Don't let the facts get in the way of a good argument, I think I heard.
So I imagine the commute from Suffolk County to Manhattan will get much worse soon when schools aren’t resumes correct? It’s hard to imagine it getting much worse. I just read an article in Crains business publication That there’s been an increase of about 34% in car registrations. There are a lot more cars on the road now due to the pandemic, Increase in subway crime and worse subway service.
I used to commute back and forth between Suffolk and Queens. I noticed a couple of things over the years.
Jan/Feb --- slight slowdown in traffic
July/August --- generally less traffic in the summer unless you are going east during the evening rush on Friday and .... Thursday! Also weekend beach traffic in Nassau County, mostly on the Southern State.
September --- traffic increases greatly compared to the summer. There also seems to be alot of accidents, at least some of which I suspect are newer drivers (college students). A single accident can lead to major delays.
December --- also alot of accidents and increased traffic near malls and major stores.
What has changed since 2000
Summer traffic is still less but has increased compared to years ago. The summer slowdown seems to happen in mid-July now (early July still has alot of traffic), not sure why. Year round, there seems to be traffic all times of the day now.
coming to work VIA SS parkway from my exit which is 43 to my job exit 33 took me 20 min today. Coming home will be another story.
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