But a friend and her partner and I are looking at renting a house for December so that we are somewhere with more sunshine—even if we still can’t do stuff, we’d at least have that.

I think that's how you have to finesse it. You can get together with smaller groups of trustworthy vaxxed people. But my hope that it would all be Done And Fixed this year will not be realized.

I've heard some public health people say that "You're either going to get vaccinated or you're going to get it." And I think that's right. Lots of humans just don't have the math or imagination to understand transmission, but the math doesn't give a shit whether you understand it.

One thing I keep going back to with the 1918 influenza pandemic is that it reached the most remote habitable places on earth. It got into the Yukon. It travels.

You will either get vaccinated or you will get it. And if you get it you might give it to somebody who won't survive it.

According to the CDC she hadn't been around us long enough to warrant anyone being quarantined and no one else got sick. I think that is giving me a false sense of security.

Last year that was true. With the Delta variant that's not applicable anymore. It has a much higher viral load and can reach the Minimum Infective Dose very quickly.

Just so you know how the landscape has changed.

You will either get vaccinated or you will get it.

I am feeling more pessimistic. I'm at "You're going to get it. Get vaccinated, to minimize how badly it hurts you. Do what you can to avoid spreading it yourself. It won't help, but you'll feel better about it."

I’m so angry at people who won’t get vaccinated even now. Like, three billion doses have been given—at this point you’re not a guinea pig anymore!!

One of my son's friends mocked him when he posted his vaccine card selfie Monday, saying in 20 years he would see the commercials. "Did you get the experimental Covid vaccine? You may be due compensation." He replied, cool beans, I'll take the money! When I mentioned to his GF that she wouldn't have to wear her mask all the time anymore, she said hell no she was never going to go without it inside again.

I'm not wearing my mask as much. When out and about I'll have it on my wrist and if there are children around, or people congestion, I'll slip it on. In this part of NY mostly I see children and elderly wearing them, most others don't.

With the way people travel these days - including the increase in air travel - any disease is going to spread, especially with the people who won't get vaccinated. And those who won't wear masks. I'm infuriated at the people on public transit who refuse to wear masks - they can get them for free on the bus and in the train stations, but they don't. There was a story by a doctor in ... Alabama? ... who said that she has young people coming in with COVID and just before she puts them on a ventilator they ask for the vaccine and she has to tell them it's too late.

I did see that a number of bars and restaurants will only seat people who are vaccinated inside, anyone who isn't has to sit outside. Which isn't a big problem now ... we'll see how it goes when it gets cold.

Fortunately I live where eating outside is rarely an issue, and I always preferred outside before Covid. It is a noise thing. Inside seating is often too noisy for me to relax and enjoy. That said, more than ever I just choose restaurants with outdoor seating.

I used to eat out so much, now I probably could count the times I have eaten at a restaurant in the past year and a half. I miss it. Take out isn't the same as being served.

In short: I fucking hate everybody who is not getting vaccinated and every school district and work place should mandate it.

Fucking. Hate. Everybody.

in 20 years he would see the commercials. "Did you get the experimental Covid vaccine? You may be due compensation." He replied, cool beans, I'll take the money!

Key point - if you get vaccinated now, you're much more likely to live another 20 years!

Fucking. Hate. Everybody.

Same.

Lots of hate.

I remotely thought I would go back to my chorus in mid-August, but it's dawning on me that they probably won't have any safeguards.

I should admit, I am not currently wearing a mask at work but (a) I am alone in my office and (b) there are like maybe 10 people on this entire floor (we aren't required to return to the office until Sept) and I know everyone here is vaccinated. I mask up as soon as I walk in the elevator, and If I worked in a customer-facing job or a busier office I would look like that meme where the person is wearing 12 masks all over their head.