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What is interesting here, is that covid restrictions are all but gone, except in a very few places. I've been to several NHL hockey games (indoors) now. We're talking 10,000+ people in the same space. Waiting outside there are literally several thousand packed in like sardines trying to get through the doors and metal scanners.
Even though our news says only about 1/2 of the people here are vaccinated, we are not seeing cases go up. They are going way down actually.
People have mostly abandoned masks. They are packing themselves into crowds, drunk, screaming at the top of their lungs at huge sporting events. In the past, these would have been called "super spreader events" and the public would have been lectured on how they were killing untold numbers of other people.
But covid cases are going down and down. What's up with this? Vaccines certainly help a bunch, but that's only 1/2 half of the population that has been vaccinated. What force is now protecting the other half? It's not masks, because few are wearing them now. It's not avoiding large groups, because those are everywhere now.
I am not a covid denier or anti-vaxxer (I had acquaintances die of covid, friends who have long term lingering sickness from it, and I have been vaccinated). But what is going on here? We have had a massive near-instantaneous relaxing of all the previous rules, lockdowns and mandates - but things have not gotten worse. They have gotten better. This is difficult to understand. I'm sure the vaccines are playing a huge part. And warmer summer weather as well. But I am still surprised at the apparent rapid retreat of covid around here.
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