Isn't there some consideration for the fact that the last variant hit nearly everyone already? Practically everyone I know got infected. How is it even going to spread that rapidly?
Yeah, re-infection is possible but still unlikely.
I know vaccination rates are relatively low in the USA but the number of infected people/deaths per capita is much higher than anywhere else in the world and I suspect the wave in the USA won't be as bad the one that is happening in Europe right now which already either peaked or lost momentum and isn't going to hit the same peaks that were hit in the first wave despite basically fully opening up at the tail end of the last peak.
I feel totally comfortable living my life now. I'm triple vaccinated and had an extremely minor breakthrough infection in January.
My risk of getting infected (and infecting other people) at this point is extremely low.
I largely go maskless now and I've booked a holiday for my family at the end of April and started to re-enroll my children in all the youth activities they've largely missed out on the past couple years.
The only thing that could potentially change that is a new game changing variant (not BA2 which is just a slightly more transmissible version of BA1).
IE. one that can evade previous Tcell/Antibody protections provided by our vaccines/infection and is highly transmissible like Omricon but is as deadly as Delta
EDIT:
HEre is an interesting thread I found in twitter after I posted this that basically echoes what Im saying with the input of health experts:
coronavirus.data.gov.uk
www.haaretz.com
