We are beginning to spike once again because of the Omicron variant, which seems to be able to side-step immunity conferred by vaccines to a point. Google updates this… whenever Google updates this, but it is still deeply concerning. I think the United States is going to be in a pandemic for awhile because none of us, at least as a whole, are willing to quarantine, everyone is rushing to get their kids back into school so that they can rush back into work, the whole nine. (And the rest of the world isn’t much better than we are right now.)