‘Hot vax summer’ ruined by anti-vax idiots

We were promised a “hot vax summer” as people emerged from their homes after the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to the availability of Covid vaccines. People were supposed to resume their normal lives and have fun this summer, unlike last year’s boring shelter-in-place summer.
But the Great Reopening of the economy has been slow to happen because of the large numbers of anti-science, anti-government morons who refuse to get one of the Covid vaccines.
Almost daily I see stories about some anti-vaccine idiot dying of Covid-19. The stories are almost cliché now with the victim saying “I wish I had gotten the vaccine” before they die.
Their decision to die senselessly in this pandemic is bad enough. But they’ve made the pandemic worse by allowing the disease to flourish and mutate into variants that are easier to transmit and are more lethal.
The delta variant of Covid-19 is the strain that’s wreaking the most havoc in the U.S. now. It’s causing governments to consider mask mandates, vaccine passports and more shutdowns.
Worse yet, the Covid pandemic looks like it’s becoming endemic. That’s means it will stick around forever like the flu.
On the entertainment front, concert tours are getting canceled again and theatrical movies are being postponed or moved to streaming.
Covid-19 is reshaping our work, school and home lives. And not for the better.

Related articles:

So Much for a ‘Hot Vax Summer’; The Delta variant puts a chill on bacchanalian behavior (The New York Times; Aug. 14, 2021)

Whiplash for the Concert Business as the Delta Variant Rages On (The New York Times; Aug. 13, 2021)

Concert industry moves to vaccination and negative test requirements as Covid cases surge (Cleveland.com; Aug. 11, 2021)

From Fall Out Boy to Counting Crows — Shows Shutting Down While Delta Surges (Rolling Stone; Aug. 9, 2021)

We’re starting to see how the pandemic affected births in the U.S. (CNN; May 6, 2021)

The coming Covid-19 baby bust is here (Brookings; May 5, 2021)

Photo: Covid mural in Chicago (Terence Faircloth via Creative Commons)