Yesterday, Gavin Newsom officially lifted the indoors mask mandate in California for most situations, marking probably the largest checkpoint in defeating COVID here. Just a few weeks before the CDC updated its recommendations that vaccinated people do not need to wear masks inside and outside, and many states updated their regulations in suit, considering the massively successful effort to vaccinate America in the past few months. With things returning back to the way they were before the pandemic and all of the cautions around it, California and America in general is shifting its focus, politically and media wise away from COVID. Though it's still majorly affecting other countries like India, which now is experiencing a new mutation of the virus called the Delta variant, the end of the quarantine is seemingly marking the end of the virus here: whether that is a safe approach will be determined in the future, but for now in the eyes of the public and the politicians, COVID is a thing of the past. Every restaurant I've been to in the past month has been full, nobody is social distancing when I walk on the street, and I'm also not being cautious after my second vaccination three or four weeks ago. Even my grandparents nursing home allowed me to be maskless, after more than a year of allowing zero visits. At this pivot away from the virus that America is taking, I think this blog will start to cover newer and less popular (more interesting) global issues, as the virus has been so ingrained in our lives over the past year that all of its stigmas and connotations have been talked about to death, and at the least I am tired of hearing the words coronavirus, masks, and everything else associated with this plague. That isn't to say I or the rest of America should push away the virus, as it has had such a massive impact and could easily come back in the future, as it's constantly mutating. Just like other modern phenomena, no one really knows what the effects of having had COVID will do to people, so a lot of people might have to grapple with its long term health effects, like irreversible lung damage, which could seriously impact its survivors in the future. Like how millions of smokers smoked before the research that cigarettes could be very harmful, and yet many people still smoke, people who were less cautious and more blaise who caught COVID might have more to deal with in the future than they accounted for. The lessons of the pandemic are still culminating, millions of people are still in lockdown, billions are unvaccinated, and millions more denied it ever happened, the world has a lot of healing to do and America specifically needs to realize that independence isn't always for the greater good, as individuality has both hurt the needs of millions of people and has been hurt by the chasms COVID caused for so many families and communities. June 15 is here: Everything changing in California's grand reopening Apple Store opening in Downtown LA
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