Pandemic restrictions finally over in NY

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    ↩  Windows Pandemic is effectively coming to an end for us finally.

    Except it isn't. The pandemic is "ending" in the US as far as restrictions go, but it's still extremely prominent in other countries, especially poor/undeveloped places. As long as large-scale transmission is still happening, there is the risk of a variant that becomes resistant to current vaccines evolving which then comes back to bite us. The most important thing right now is stopping (or significantly slowing because stopping completely is impossible) transmission in other regions. Until then, lifting restrictions is great but we shouldn't lower our guard. If a vaccine-resistant variant evolves, there may be a second round of restrictions later in the year. The pandemic is far from over.

    For context, the Spanish Flu pandemic never actually ended, it just infected and killed such a large portion of the global population that it needed to mutate to continue infecting people. All seasonal influenza strains, swine flu, etc, are all descendants of what was once called the Spanish Flu, and they exist because we weren't able to halt the pandemic a century ago.

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    ↩ @'_97' The only places that require masks are hospitals.

    That should just be standard practice now lmao