> The only reason people are tolerating more lockdowns and more quarantines and masks are because the vaccine which is being deployed now is going to end all of

> The only reason people are tolerating more lockdowns and more quarantines and masks are because the vaccine which is being deployed now is going to end all of that. FYI - there's no concrete data out yet that suggests the vaccine will stop transmission of the virus. The vaccine is only to reduce symptoms from turning severe. They hope it can reduce transmission, but those studies aren't complete. Also kids and young teens are not going to be vaccinated until probably summer. > First it was 14 days to slow the spread and flatten the curve and somehow they stretched that for a year into wait for the vaccine 14 days was the optimistic scenario in which people actually follow rules. Many people did not and do not follow the rules.