The return of celebrations

[bill_schubert]

It is too early.  The variants are building as the vaccine acceptance recedes (that is somewhat of a self leveling statistic, I suspect, as the ranks of those not vaccinated will be thinned by Mr. Darwin). 

The celebrations have, regardless commenced, and no amount of curmudgeonly resistance will overcome my enjoyment of watching.  Wimbledon.  The Tour. Euro 2021.  And the parade in our subdivision:

Jeeps and golf carts get lined up ready to rumble

They aren't going by our house so this is all I'll see but at 8:30 they started lining up.  A return to the silly normalcy of a couple of years ago.  It is not me but it is nice to see.  Harmless celebration of still being alive.

Comments

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

most of the people I interacted with locally were really good about masking up, staying home, keeping distance, etc, but once the restrictions lifted, now seeing someone with a mask on is a huge rarity. My nextdoor page is full of people whining about how some businesses are still requiring masks or limiting the number of people in small stores 'FOR NO REASON!!!' And I know for a fact that some of the anti-maskers I know refuse to get vaccinated and will not wear a mask. And work with the public. One works in a freaking nursing home.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we'll one day have a nursing home hit with covid and the lawyers will get involved, I guess. There was a Houston hospital that lost 150+ employees over not getting vaccines. Good riddance, I say. But this is all far from settled.

I'm north of Austin. My wife and I are the only ones I know that routinely mask in public places. The stores have a very few of us.

[amw.livejournal.com]

It's interesting to look at the numbers in the US and see that some parts of the country are doing worse now than they were in March/April, but because everything is unlocked now there's just this assumption that the pandemic is over, when really it's only over for the people who live in areas where the number of vaccinated is high enough that it's unlikely to spread aggressively. It reminds me of when the Iraq War happened and at the beginning they always reported the deaths every day on the news, but after a while Americans pretty much forgot there was even a war going on (unless they watched PBS News Hour which kept doing memorials for servicemen at the end of every episode). I suspect more people died after the general public forgot about the war than during the few months where it was foremost on their minds.