Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Covid policy for fully vaccinated

[Tom @ Gather (tom]

Also apropos: just-released CDC guidelines:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/08/vaccinated-people-cdc-guidance/

"The CDC also said fully vaccinated people can gather indoors with those
who are also fully vaccinated."

Great news!

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:21 PM Tom @ Gather <tom [at] gather.coop> wrote:

> Here is a timely article from Zeynep Tufecki that addresses this issue:
>
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/
>
> I think this is a tricky one. I think there may already be some good
> evidence that vaccines reduce transmission. Tufecki seems to think so. And
> she makes some good points about the importance of getting some wins in
> this pandemic.
>
> It's also interesting that the anti-vaccine crowd have been amplifying the
> "vaccines don't help" message. We need to be careful about falling for that
> one.
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:37 AM Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Until there is good evidence that the vaccine stops people from catching
>> and transmitting the disease (rather than just not having symptoms), I
>> don't see why vaccinations should change the rules.
>>
>> Diana from Mosaic Commons, where people use the CH in socially distant
>> ways
>> anyway :)
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:19 AM Diane Kallas <dkallas [at] muircommons.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I live in a cohousing community where we are considering allowing
>> greater
>> > freedom for fully vaccinated members. Currently, no one uses the common
>> > house facilities, but the fully vaccinated would be given access to the
>> > gym, dining space, sitting room.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts or others sharing this dilemma?
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