The top article on the front page of the Seattle Times today (paywalled) is titled:
Inslee brings back mask mandate
That’s just the beginning. He’s clamping down hard now — our infection rates are ticking up, hospitalizations are climbing with the usual lag, and hospital resources are getting strained again after being strained for months. We’re not anywhere near the horrifying state of the Wuhan or China Republican virus crisis in so many Red states, but Gov. Inslee, seeing what’s happening to them, would REALLY like to avoid DeSantising, Abbotting, Ivying, Reeving, or Noeming, etc. our Washington. I find myself strongly agreeing with him.
Employees at state agencies, schools, and universities must be vaccinated by Oct. 18 or face termination. Inoculations will be required for hundreds of thousands of workers in nursing homes and long term health care facilities. Exemptions are going to be more limited — VERY limited for employees who have to interact with public or patients.
Sounds like regular testing is not going to be an option for people who can be vaccinated, which is good. The record on how well that worked was bad even before the delta variant appeared, as American Seafoods found out even with the original strain with a supposedly well locked down test, quarantine, test again regime. Now that delta is the primary strain, it’s ridiculous — even daily is dubious given how fast delta multiplies — the speed of delta reproduction means you might (this is still being debated) get tested on Monday and again on Tuesday, and be spewing contagion by Wednesday morning before your morning test — and depending on the test, you might not find out till Thursday or Friday that you had been spewing.
Friday, Aug 20, 2021 · 5:59:06 PM +00:00
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DButch
For those in WA, check out the MyIR site, our vaccination registry. I've been keeping an eye on it since my wife and I got vaccinated back in April (first jab at the beginning, second at the three week mark). Yesterday I saw both our records had been updated, and there’s an option to print from the site. We’re keeping our original vaccine cards anyway and waiting for them to come up with a secure phone app.
If you want to hot laminate your original vaccine card, keep it in a protected but well ventilated place for a good two weeks so the ink can completely dry. That was the advice we got from our (very) nearby mail store — and the lamination came out perfectly with no running or smearing.
My wife also suggests hitting up a local office store to get a convention badge holder of appropriate dimensions if you are wary of laminating it.