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Originally Posted by arrowheadnation
I don't know why, but it's emotional typing this. So can those of us who are vaccinated basically declare the pandemic "over" as of right now for all intents and purposes? I mean, real life feels like a lifetime ago. My dad died during covid (not from covid), all of my country bumpkin relatives who were staunch anti-mask/anti-vax all caught and luckily survived covid and are now all vaxxed, and I was told a week after my dad's funeral that I am being laid off on July 1....Life comes and it comes fast, but I'm blessed. The dog days are over; the dog days are done.
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It's tough to fully say it's "over" - in theory we could see another wave in the fall, especially if variants end up being problematic.
But right now, it's looking like the vaccines are working better than anyone could have possibly hoped for. Once vaccinated, your risk of death from COVID is incredibly low. So if you and most of the people you care about are vaccinated, yeah, I think you can celebrate at this point.
We'll still see some lingering restrictions for a while I'm sure (e.g., international travel restrictions, masks in certain situations), and we will almost certainly see a small level of lingering deaths among non-vaccinated people. But for the most part, this summer should be as close to normal as we could have hoped for back in January.