Again, never said it was going away. I said the need for restrictions would go away and we would be back to normal. I still agree with that and my life is back to normal. I'm not restricted from doing anything.
I don't care about the rt rate and I don't care about cases. The metrics I have focused on all along have been the positivity rate, hospitalizations and deaths. As long as an increase in cases doesn't driven by large increases in the positivity rate which results in higher hospitalizations and deaths, we are fine.
Because of how contagious this variant appears to be, I do believe that people will either get the vaccine or they will get Covid eventually and a small percentage will get both. I expect we will peak soon if we haven't already and should be over fairly quickly.