I'm sorry if I sound like one of "those" people who is stopping people from having fun, but there is no way you are going to convince me that the hundreds of thousands of fans gathered for NFL and college football games are all vaxxed and not risking further mutation. I get that it's outside, but again, these people are shoulder to shoulder, maskless, yelling for 2+ hours, going to and from the bathroom, etc. I just really don't understand how the script has flipped so abruptly from "an outside gathering of tens of thousands of people is definitely a super spreader event" to "nahh it's OK because people are outside."
So it seems like we're back to business as usual, and I won't be surprised if we see another mutation. Or who knows, maybe this thing will just fizzle out.
It's plateauing here in my area so idk. As for the mixed messages, pretty much everyone agrees with that. No one knows what is going on. No wonder everyone just decided it's over.
Once COVID was basically signaled to be over back around June, there was really no putting that toothpaste back in the tube.
*horsepaste
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I for one, blame the media. There is no centralized narrative around the end of the pandemic, in much the same way there was for the war in Iraq. Did it end? When? Or is it still happening in some different form that you dont really have to think about?