I dunno where you live, but in the US cases are on the rise, and yesterday we had more new cases in a single day than any other day since the start of the pandemic. What makes it worse is that these new cases are not due to increases in testing as they were before. We're seeing steady to decreasing rates of testing with increasing rates of transmission. Complications among younger victims are also on a significant rise. Long-term sufferers are starting to feel the real impact of covid19. If the body can't expel the virus after several weeks, as with any infection, it begins to destroy the infected part of the body. Hundreds of people are left with permanent lung damage, and several dozen have required transplants. If you were part of the D-Day invasion, you were less likely to die than someone infected with covid19 (though both have about a 7% death rate).
Regulations are being lifted partially due to violent responses to extended lockdown (which we've propelled ourselves into by having a complete failure of a response to the initial wave of infection) and partially due to us discovering with regulations have helped and which have not based on results in varying places that had different rules.
In fact, the southeastern corner of the United States has more infections currently than New England and New York and the Middle of the east coast (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, etc) COMBINED. Call it a coincidence that the southeast has been the quickest to lift regulation.
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