Trust Science^tm of which there is absolutely none involved:

The guidance for non-essential travel is more restrictive, advising Californians to continue to avoid unnecessary travel outside of the state and “strongly discouraging” non-essential travelers from outside the state from visiting, regardless of their vaccination status. If those visitors do come, the public health officials asks that they get tested three to five days after arrival, and self-quarantine for a full 7 days, even with a negative test. For those who don’t test, the recommendation is 10 days.

Source: California, CDC make big changes to travel restrictions. Here’s what’s changed for travelers.

Read that again

• if you are fully vaccinated and go to California,
• you should should still be tested for Covid-19 after arrival
• Even with a negative test result, you should quarantine for 7 days.

This is even harsher than what the CDC Is now asking of international travel to the U.S.  (Explain the science for why California’s domestic travel restrictions are more harsh than the CDC’s for inbound international arrivals? There is on science.)

So why bother to be vaccinated? This makes no sense what so ever. The usual inconsistent, contradictory incoherent garbage public health messaging – everyone will ignore this guidance and it is, in fact, unenforceable.

Last year, a study in Ontario, Canada proved that face masks worked – until, apparently, they didn’t anymore:

TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian province of Ontario will enter lockdown for at least four weeks on Saturday as COVID-19 cases and hospital intensive care unit occupancy rises, Premier Doug Ford said on Thursday.

The third such lockdown in Canada’s most populous province will shutter all indoor and outdoor dining but allow retailers to remain open with capacity limits, Ford said.

Source: Ontario to enter third COVID-19 lockdown as cases, hospital rates rise | Reuters

If face masks and lock downs work so well, why is this happening?

Public health has engaged in unimaginable cruelty confining 150,000 nursing home residents to solitary confinement in their rooms for up to 15 months.

Residents of Ontario’s long-term care homes begged on Tuesday to be allowed outside, saying anti-pandemic restrictions that have confined them indoors for more than a year make no sense given almost all have now been vaccinated.

Some compared their situations to solitary confinement, and urged the provincial government to act on what they called a gross violation of their basic human rights.

Source: Long-term care residents beg to go outside after year-long COVID-19 confinement

Yesterday I read about hospitals that have prohibited parents from visiting new born babies, including those in intensive care for long periods of time. This is devastating.

Huge increases in drug abuse, suicide attempts, psychiatric problems, eating disorders:

McMaster Children’s Hospital says it has seen a steady increase of youth in crisis since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

According to the hospital, youth admitted for medical support after a suicide attempt has tripled over a four-month period, compared to last year. The hospital also said that patients are staying in hospital longer due to more serious attempts.

McMaster Children’s Hospital says a large number of these youth have reported COVID-related issues such as lack of social interaction, increased conflict at home, and the inability to rely on friends as main contributors.

Source: Number of youth in hospital after suicide attempt tripled over 4-month period under COVID-19 | CBC News

The hospital says the reasons for the increase are unclear, but the shared hypotheses from hospital professionals and literature cites a combination of factors, such as isolation, risk of over exercising, limited or no school, or limited access to family physicians in the earlier part of the pandemic, as well activities where teachers and coaches would notice changes in health.

We’ve failed to stop the spread of Covid-19 but at least we’ve increased societal dysfunction on a grand scale, so guess public health has been quite a success.