there is none of that around here. people were dying to get back to work at restaurants and bars here and they seem fully if not overstaffed at times. biggest problem i can see is getting customers to come out. i think people are still a little leery about gathering inside. i have been one on the only daytime drinkers where there used to be 2-3x more a year ago. of course, the workforce here is mostly kids. businesses that need to get mothers/ single working parents back are having problems, but schools are slowly and SAFELY returning to normal and should free those men and women to get back to work. it would have been so hard on these parents if not for the expanded unemployment benefits. if you know any of these people and don't just watch radical right broadcasts, you would realize this.
vaccination is still rolling along, though there is still a big chunk of Redumblicans who are anti-vacc'ers. luckily smarter conservatives are still fleeing that party, so even that majority is getting small merely through attrition. remarkably funny that they are the group who badly want to return to normal, yet they are the group preventing this by their idiotic conspiracy claims. yes... Bill Gates is trying to inject micro-chips into your arms... OMG... how do these people function in society...?!? "Buy the Lie"... seems to be their only focus now.