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Originally Posted by DaFace
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.
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What would you consider a wave at this point? I do not think we will ever see anything close to what we saw last fall/winter specific to this virus. Any future "wave" will likely be a ripple that is less than a typical flu season IMO.