Maybe it isn't solely the unvaxxed masses that are causing the case rises. Maybe people - who have and have NOT gotten the shots - are feeling "normal" again and have stopped washing hands frequently and with soap, are shaking hands as they go back to work, are no longer wiping down grocery carts, are going to movies, are going on vacation, are attending parties, and licking doorknobs etc.
In other words, because of the "seat belt" effect of vaccinations, people are effectively "driving faster" again.
This isn't to say we should go back to mandates. But it DOES suggest that you can't blame just one class of people.
Exactly...sort of: I don't blame any class of people for anything except emotional fear reactions rather than using the gelatinous tissue between their ears.
Mandates were a fear reaction intended to control not the virus, but people.
I & others have said since last April that had this just been left to nature and we only protected/isolated the vulnerable, this would have been over by last Fall.
But OHHHH NO: There are profits to be made and power grabs to be had, so this 'virus crisis' must be extended as long as possible.
The proper behavior is just that: TO DRIVE FASTER, i.e., to act normal and spread germs just as before.
If you are vulnerable, STAY THE HELL HOME! Not without consequences itself, but with significantly reduced risk until such a time that a majority of the population has been fully exposed to these viruses (yes, you read that correctly and I stand by it).
The public health consequences of a 2nd extended period of isolation will result in a wave of sickness & death the likes of which the human race hasn't seen since the Black Death.
The human species has survived through a combination of factors, merely one of which is the sharing of pathogens ubiquitous in our environment to maintain a strong immune system; the faster everyone is back to normal, the sooner the public health pendulum will swing back to 'strong'.
Until then, every month of isolation is traded for a percentage of higher susceptibility to illness (even me, in spite of the fact that I haven't changed ANY behavior since my 72-hour virus, due solely to others' hypochondria).
Maybe it’s not even Covid, but misdiagnosed.
I suppose it is possible that some doctors somewhere just might have made a mistake in diagnosis.
Or maybe the test results were off.
Cause really, who ever had fa doctor making a mistake before? Right?