What now? There is no plan. We have the vaccine, at least in the US and EU we have enough doses, and they are more effective than many expected them to be. We are many, many days into "three weeks to slow the spread".

In Manhattan numerous restaurants constructed "outdoor dining" areas, but since eating outside in 20F weather kind of sucks (I can attest from personal experience), many are fully enclosed and have heating and A/C. They are literally indoor dining except located on the street and not built to code, but we all pretend that this is making a difference.

Everyone knows that children in schools are a major vector for disease. Pre-covid it was always parents with school-aged kids bringing in colds and flu. Everyone knows that testing is largely performed only on people showing symptoms and children do not show severe COVID symptoms, but parents got tired of having their kids at home so we got a round of articles claiming children don't spread COVID and reopened schools while everything else was shut down.

I could go on with many more examples but we all know them. The response is a joke. The lockdown largely hasn't affected the elite and wherever it has we get COVID theater and special exceptions, but it's also become political and part of the identity for a certain highly influential strata of society so we keep moving the goalposts with no plan.