Summer is now technically and officially underway and with the summer solstice comes the longest day of the year and shortest night of the year.
Plenty of time to think about what this official season of summer will be like in 2021 until it ends on September 20th.
It will certainly be a lot different than the summer of 2020 when the pandemic was getting worse and the COVID restrictions were increasing.
As of last week, the vast majority of restrictions are gone and all businesses of all kinds are operating at full capacity. And things have definitely started to feel more normal.
But they’re still not totally normal and it could be late this year before they are.
When school resumes and in-person learning resumes starting next month in some districts and in August and September in others and with no approved vaccine for kids under 12 and kids between 12 and 16 still being vaccinated, masks will still be needed.
And while more people are being vaccinated every day and San Diego County and all of California are getting closer to herd immunity, it looks like there are still many who are either still thinking about getting vaccinated or who have decided not to be vaccinated.
And with the new strain of the virus they call the Delta variant and say is more contagious now more prevalent in the U.S. the risk of getting COVID among the unvaccinated will remain at least for a while yet.
So while things are a lot better with the arrival of the summer solstice, it still could be the arrival of the winter solstice in December when darkness finally falls on the pandemic.
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