long gone in the sense of media coverage perhaps? the virus hasn't gone anywhere and it's not like we have vaccines that give permanent/longterm immunity
It is no longer a pandemic which is killing tens of thousands of people, but covid is very much still around, and there's no true long-term vaccine for it. A lot of people with it are going to be more-or-less asymptomatic.
However, for a small bunch of immunocompromised people it is still very much life-altering or even deadly. For them catching it is just Not An Option, so if you want them at a large-scale meetup like this you'll have to ask all attendants to make the offer of spending a few seconds taking the $2 test.