Although expecting to be busy and on the road this week, I thought I would be able to kick out a couple posts as I managed last week. My time has been even more limited than planned, crammed to the brim with the bizarre daily routines that once made up my normal, not-sinking-into-debt-while-writing-a-biology-blog life.
On a related note, San Diego and LA (outside of downtown) have reopened and de-masked to a degree not seen since summer, 2020.
Most of the super-vaccinated, those that only took the shots as an imagined passport to societal normalcy in the first place, are tired of the virus and seemingly more hesitant to refer to the current moment as “since Covid” by the day, as if rapidly growing ashamed of the childish, self-imposed mental illness they gave into. (No one speaks of or appears to suffer from health issues from either the virus or the shots, but that has always been true to a certain extent in California - as if we have received the “blank” version of both. This might also be related to pre-existing immunity to the spike protein from exposure to the virus from Chinese students and travelers in 2019, as I have speculated before.)
Others, of course - college students and younger adults especially - are still walking and electric-scootering around with ridiculous duck-faces (n95s). And many of the hispanic working class, in Chula Vista especially, still clings to the plastic masks that were officially denounced as useless half a year ago.
Expanded thoughts on what this may mean for coastal / Blue America’s political and social destiny in a coming post.
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