> Now many of us are re-evaluating our risk thresholds. That sounds like a really sensible strategy. The COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and evolving. We should b

> Now many of us are re-evaluating our risk thresholds. That sounds like a really sensible strategy. The COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and evolving. We should be continuously re-evaluating our risk thresholds to take into consideration current levels of community spread, the amount of strain being put on local healthcare services, new strains of the virus as they emerge and the differences in symptoms/severity/transmissibility for them as well as the effectiveness of current vaccines and immune responses to protect against those new strains, new advances in treatment and prevention, and new information or clarification on the long term risks/impacts/consequences of infection and prior infections. As long as the virus is being passed around at high rates there's always a risk that a new strain will show up which makes our current treatments/vaccines ineffective or does much greater harm to people who get infected. As scientists continue to work to improve our understanding of the virus we could also wake up one day to find a very effective treatment or a highly effective preventative has been discovered that would improve our health outcomes and/or drastically reduce the spread of the virus. It'd be pretty risky to stop re-evaluating your risks and responses to this situation since it changes rapidly.