It’s Back

It’s back and things are beginning to close down again.  The delta variant of the Covid-19 virus is spiking especially among the unvaccinated.  The CDC currently recommends everyone to wear masks and socially distance when inside.  People around Berkeley are doing that.  But today, even here where 70% of eligible folks are fully vaccinated, it feels like things are beginning to close down.  In-person Church meetings scheduled for the coming week have been moved to zoom.  People walking along the streets in Berkeley are wearing masks again.  People are scared.  The story from Provincetown on Cape Cod  about many breakthrough cases among the vaccinated, I think, has folks concerned and no longer trusting that vaccination will protect them for catching Covid.  I feel like “oh no, here we go again.”  We’ll just have to wait and see if any in-person gatherings can happen in the near future.  What I wonder will happen to our birding trip in Arizona from August 19-25?  Will a complete shut down happen again?  I don’t think so.  It’s hard not to be really mad at all the people refusing to be vaccinated.  It’s because of that the virus has so many susceptible hosts.  There is so much mistrust of the medicine and science and government.  

That too is like a virus spreading among the susceptible.  We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.