Were you in Times Square? New Yorkers who live in Manhattan are more compliant (it's the borough with lowest infection rate and highest vaccination rate). Most of the people you see without a mask are from the outer boroughs, Harlem/Washington Heights, or tourists.
^ Please stop I don't want to wait until beginning of 2022 god's sakes. EVEN variants and vaccine hesitancy could make people crazy about it? NOOOO! Even this is the future of freedom and happiness. Masks and social distancing may go away by late summer/fall/winter depends cases and variants fade away quickly if the people NEEDs to get a vaccine most possible. I want go back to normal very soon by late summer aka July or fall/winter so badly. Variants and vaccine hesitancy are so stupid. Plus even experts can do that know everything will go back to normal by fall/winter NOT July, jeez I want to help that's all.
They aren't. Florida has criminal and some civil law jurisdiction, but ports and ships are mostly regulated under federal law.
Thats cutting it kind of close. The side effects are mostly occurring after the second dose. Hopefully you won't experience them or it'll jut be minor (like a headache).
Nobody knows when “normal” will happen again. It will look different in different places depending on how it’s spreading. The USA might see a semblance of normal this fall, but you have to realize it can all change because even though we are vaccinating, other countries have yet to start which will contribute to it spreading. I don’t see Disney dropping its restrictions until rates around the world start dropping. I get it’s frustrating, but the truth is no one knows when we can go without masks and distancing again until it gets announced. Just do you part (get vaccinated and wear your mask) and help the spread slow here and know that it won’t last forever.
^ Unless President Biden did announcing there will may back to normal by July 4th with possible masks and social distancing may go away for good if the spread was slow and cases will drop faster to decrease.
The hot spots are emerging like wild fires at this point. Possibly inflamed by more contagious variants.
^ So that's mean fourth wave may cause worse if NY and NJ as other half states will getting worse, then the cases will may not decrease until next month/June so it will go down faster by July or August/September. Don't expect people are going happy but worried about danger variants and possible do nothing until beginning of 2022. As like last year's problems, which is going to be nothing again in summer and possible fall/winter because variants RUINED our normal plans AGAIN! I wish variants will go away soon as fourth wave can't be any worse like Spring Break, etc....this is GOING to be very long year as variants takes over America, I'm so bored since last year. Pandemic is very stupid idea of my life. @MisterPenguin so no one knows when pandemic is going to end also masks and social distancing will gone for good?
The shutdown sound is the one you should be worried about.
Outside of wearing masks and social distancing, a lot of the other restrictions are loosening. They have said masks and social distancing will probably be here til fall or after.
I don’t think it will be weeks and weeks, most of the PH experts (who have a track record of picking very conservative estimates) have said 4-6 weeks this weekend. Looking to Israel it was at around 40% vaccinated that their curve started to bend, nationally we stand at 32% this morning, with most of the country set to open vaccinations to everyone after completing the holiday weekend. At the pace we are going, we should hit that 40% number in 2-4 weeks, which is why the experts picked 4-6 weeks (because they heged their estimate on when all those 40% become partially protected) even though that did not happen in Israel. I think 1 month, is really the mean of when the upswing will cease. I also don’t think it’s going to get as bad as MI everywhere as that state had a realitively low fall surge, as did the NE states that are currently in the thick of it.
Your last line was the takeaway, no one knows what will work or when we are back to normal whatever that is. We keep trying, masking, distancing and getting shots in arms until we don't have to any longer.
I mean this with all sincerity. I do not think this thread is a great place for your specific questions. No one here knows anything for sure and outside of one or two none of us are even health professionals let alone experts. I think you should truly find a trusted adult not on a Disney forum to talk to about this. We can all guess what happens, but we can be wrong. The end is no one knows for sure. We've all been suffering though and mental health has taken a hit. Vaccines are helping, it just takes time.
My second shot is Thursday too. My parents both got second shots of Moderna last week. My mom had nothing but sore arm and my dad got the flu symptoms. It seems about 50/50 to me anecdotally. In the trials it was less.
A fall surge again? No no more surges, that won't be happen because by late summer the pandemic should be almost over soon right @GoofGoof
No credible infectious disease expert would say they could possibly predict what will happen with variants or how much vaccine hesitancy we will face. The people saying no return to normal until 2022 are doing that for effect. They want to shock and make headlines.
There will be future surges because it is a respiratory illness. Flu has yearly surges. But, hopefully, our vaccines are good enough that we can manage them without high rates of hospitalization and death. We won’t know until we know. All we know right now is that vaccination is our best hope.
I think the WHO-defined pandemic will last for at least another year, because there are plenty of people outside of the G20 (and even inside!) with no accelerated timeline to be vaccinated. I think the dwindling amount of pandemic safety measures within America, for Americans will wind down between July and September.
