Boosters alone (or natural immunity from a previous infection) without any other measures probably won't do much to stop transmission.


Other things that would help, but *very likely* will not be done by the government or by individuals:

Wear a mask when you can.
Social distance when you can.
Improve ventilation when you can.
During an obvious uptick in community cases maybe reconsider the need to go to the club or church or convention or group tap dancing classes.
If you get sick then test and if positive then stay away from people for 10 days.

Testing and tracking of infections is pretty much gone and done for the ENTIRE world. Data from Africa has weeks that go by without 1 reported death from COVID. They're not alone, reporting is not something that people are valuing anymore.

Hospitalization and deaths are not the only things to be worried about. Having COVID sucks. Spreading it to friends sucks. Long COVID sucks.

If COVID never existed and we were seeing these numbers for FLU then more would be being done. But the pollicization of COVID, and the overwhelming pushback from people who "just decided COVID was over" are probably contributing to this fact: no one gives a fuck when you catch COVID anymore unless you take a hospital bed.



Boosters likely coming in 3rd week of this month.