Act as if everyone you know has just tested positive
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There are currently about 100,000 vaccinations a day in the US. Ignoring the vaccines that need two doses, vaccinating 300 million people at that rate will take 3,000 days = 100 months = 8.3 years. At 1 million vaccinations/day, we're still looking at 300 days = 10 months. Logistics is not my thing, but a tenfold increase in vaccations may be a little optimistic. Better than an infinite wait, though.
I got a robocall from my regular pharmacy the other day, telling me that they would be involved in distributing covid vaccines "soon".
So I am definitely going along with the main idea about acting as if everyone I know (or run into on the street) has tested positive.
It's a huge missed opportunity that we weren't better prepared from the get go, given we've had all year to get ready, but it will get better.
Ofc we stay away from family and are in non risk age.
And your assumption that things will go back to normal is not true. There are many companies, industries and places that will never return back to normal after this pandemic.
Except there is an expiry date, the date you get the vaccine (or at least, a week or two after you get the second dose). And for most people, that should happen by this summer. If there were no vaccine on the horizon, then yeah, things would need to be different. It doesn't make rational sense to be taking any unnecessary risks when people are getting vaccinated as we speak. In 10 years, will you regret being extra careful for a few more months? No, but there's the potential that you could regret not being careful for the rest of your life.
> And your assumption that things will go back to normal is not true
I didn't say anything about normality on my post. All I talked about was the vaccine.