My wife and I are both fully vaccinated. The clinic did their shots at a small office downtown, with nothing but healthcare workers trickling in. I did mine in the ballroom at Seattle U, where there was a line to get in the line that gets in line. They go from 6am to 9pm; I got there half an hour early for an appointment that you pick by the minute and was getting jabbed within 2-3 minutes of the allotted time. They told me the site does 5500 vaccinations a day, so that would have been 400-odd people there at the same time as me. My mother-in-law should be getting her first shot today, my father-in-law got his first shot two weeks ago.

I see far too much stuff about mutations, B.117, 501.V2 and the general nature of coronaviruses, which simply don't stand still. Eventually? Eventually COVID will evolve to be ridiculously virulent and fundamentally nonlethal. But I don't see "eventually" on the horizon yet.

I don't mean to rain on your parade. 50% efficacy kicks the shit out of 0% efficacy. But this doesn't seem like an "out of the woods" moment to me just yet.