Yeah. I think there are people who at this point are like, okay, it’s another variant. This is never going to end. COVID is not going away. People always make decisions based on risk-benefit calculations, and I think many may have come to a tipping point where they said, “Okay, I’m going to wait until I get vaccinated. I’m going to get boosted, or get two doses and whatever happens after that, it is what it is because I don’t want to live like this any longer. I’d rather things just be open, I’d rather we just deal with it like it’s another medical problem that the health system will have to handle as time goes on.”

There are some people who feel that way, and there are others who are still ready to do everything possible to hold off. There is a benefit to delaying infection. Even if it’s inevitable you’ll get infected at some point, right now we know a lot more than we did two years ago. We’re better at managing COVID now, and we’ll be even better at it a year from now.

There are some doctors who feel like we’re good enough now, we can keep people alive for the most part. We have antivirals, we have other therapeutics that we can use in the hospital, so there’s no reason that we need to keep pushing mitigation, because now we can actually keep people alive. But then there’s the morbidity point: we don’t know what the consequences and complications of long COVID are going to look like over time.