We self-isolated just as hard as anyone from March - May. I was looking at my Amazon orders and I'm coming up next week on the 1 year anniversary of when I bought a pair of pulse oximeters as a diagnostic early warning measure.

In the summer, we started slowly going out more and doing things with people more. At this point, I think the country just needs to get on with life.

Everyone around here knows a dozen or two people who have had it, and a handful of elderly people who died from it. It's a tragedy, but so is their treatment this past year. My Grandma is 98 and has gone downhill so significantly this past year from lack of interaction. At least now she's allowed to talk with the other residents of the nursing home. She spent six months locked in her room. And they all caught coronavirus anyway last fall.

It's been clear since late Spring of last year that politics was driving the lockdowns far more than any real hard science.