I wonder what you think

I agree that the world shouldn't have closed for this. Especially when you consider the fact that places that made masks mandatory and had lockdowns had a huge increase in covid cases rising while places that didn't lock down and didn't mandate masks decreased in case numbers, like Texas. My folks are always blindly believing whatever the media tells them about this new strain or that new one in Florida, even though from what anyone I know who actually lives in Florida has said, they're doing very well over there. Even if they weren't, we can't just shut the entire world down forever. You can't play God and control nature or control viruses. For the people who run states that are still locked down or have considered more lockdowns, that's never going to work. To think they can control the world and control an entire disease and prevent deaths from happening is just insane to me. They have a really bad God complex to think they can do all that and succeed. Covid is just another thing we're all gonna have to learn to live with and adapt to, because Covid is never gonna go away, not entirely. The only disease we have ever fully eradicated ever in human history is smallpox, but even then, that still exists now but only inside of labs and that's it. If you fuck around and hang out in the Arizona desert, apparently you can still get the black plague from that. So I really have no faith that Covid will ever be gone, just that it won't be as severe at some point seeing as we're all gonna be vaccinated for it and have no severe symptoms if any of us do get it.

No, nothing has changed. There's still a lot of people being diagnosed with Covid-19, even with vaccines available. I haven't checked the death rates, but hopefully they have gone down. My state is getting rid of the mask law, but I will probably still wear mine awhile, even though I have already had covid, and am fully vaccinated.

There are no actual vaccines for covid as one normally understands vaccines. They are gene therapies designed to trigger a person's immune response to a virus. The problem is the response may well be beyond what is required to kill the virus with the result of the immune response killing the human. When this concept was used on animals the animals all died not immediately but when they came in contact with the virus they were vaccinated against. I won't be getting vaccinated and will rely on my own body's natural ability to fight the virus. It is the course of least risk at the moment.

Covid is not "over".

A lot of India's pop [b]is not[/b] vaxxed.

The vaccine [i][b]is most certainly[/b][/i] a vaccine for covid.

The world [b]did not[/b] shut down [i]properly[/i] for the pandemic. If it had, we wouldn't have seen so many deaths to date. We open [i]partially[/i] now that people are getting the vaccine, duh. Travel to and from some places is restricted.

Can't say I really understand what's going on, but we're told what to do with threats put on us if we don't.

Poor India 😔