- July 28, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
We’re in a frenzy — again. And small businesses are poised to suffer for our panic — again.
The Delta variant is circulating, cases are up. But with three vaccines on the market, and nearly 60 percent of eligible Americans fully vaccinated, the picture is much brighter than the breathless headlines would have us all believe.
COVID hospitalizations and deaths remain low. So-called breakthrough cases among the vaxxed, endlessly hyped by the blue-check media, account for a little over 1 percent of infections and 0.8 percent of deaths.
In short, we have figured out how to contain COVID-19. But it’s hard to let go of paranoia.
Neurotic politicians like Mark Levine, chairman of the City Council’s Health Committee, whip people into a tizzy and demand a return to masking. Levine — who in February 2020 urged Gothamites to join the huge crowds in Chinatown celebrating the Lunar New Year in a “powerful show of…
