Is it so yesterday?
Or is it endemic?

Inbetween it continues to be a part of our daily lives yet the last 93 posts and 24 threads have had nithing to do with COVID.

Is it gone or is it overlooked?

A student of mine was absent last Monday because she had COVID (half-whispered to me): i continually tell boys to pull their masks up (not a single female ever has ever had an uncovered nose in the classroom during this era. Figure that.)

Movies, TV,... corn!

A student of mine was absent last Monday because she had COVID (half-whispered to me):

Which part did they whisper?

Sanity is returning. People thankfully realized that the prevention wasn't worth the disruption.

Unfortunately too late because the smartest people in the room (the "experts", often Euros and Democrats) didn't plan for a war that would send extreme shocks through everything on top and now we have massive inflation and a looming food crisis, which we might have been able to handle had we kept things open, but nope.

You have completely failed to understand what has happened.  As is too often the case.

The argument that "the prevention wasn't worth the disruption" puts you in the same intellectual category as Ron DeSantis, Lauren Bobert, MJ Greene, Boris Johnson and Trump.  Which is "anti".

Cases are way down, because "the prevention" worked.  The most deadly variants were suffocated and replaced by a much less virulent strain.  Were it not for social distancing, masks, sterilizing, et al, and especially vaccination! any sensible person recognizes that things could have been much worse--not that 1 million + American deaths is remotely okay. 

Omicron is much less worrying than previous strains, so people are less worried.  However, there's still the chance that another more deadly version may emerge, so we should retain our good habits for some time.

Because I am on the upper side of vulnerability, with age and health factors, I was extremely diligent myself, fully vaxxed.  And yet still got the virus in May.

The only way I knew I had it was the weekly Ag test we were supposed to do--I did it twice that day because I couldn't believe it.  I felt no symptoms, but had to sit at home for a week.  And at no time had any symptoms whatsoever.  Among the items the health center sent me to monitor myself was a fingertip oximeter, and I always measured 99%, for example.  Temp. never above 36.6.  A team KKT'd me three times a day to check in.  I am grateful for the sensible system which prevented larger-scale outbreaks and rampant spreading that might have caught me in the first or delta phase, when my outcome could have been much worse.  But go ahead and wish I had gotten really sick or died. (JK, I know that's not what you meant--but it is the possible result of your idea, so ...)

How on point it is for you, too, to blame the effects of the war on "Euros and Democrats" rather than on, say, PUTIN.  In truth, the only thing that would be much different would just be a whole lot more dead people, and they can't grow crops or operate ships any better than living people with masks and social distancing. 

Were it not for social distancing, masks, sterilizing, et al, and especially vaccination! any sensible person recognizes that things could have been much worse--not that 1 million + American deaths is remotely okay. 

true, and i think all that is good, but america was fully locked down for a pretty insane amount of time. i feel like we didnt lockdown fast enough (a faster response probably would have saved more lives than even stricter measures later), and when we were late we tried to over-compensate.

I still wear my mask, my Friday school has asked me to stop wearing it while I teach, but I've refused, cause I haven't seen any government guidelines that say we can stop wearing them indoors.
Plus I'm headed to nz this summer, and don't want to risk getting it close to my departure time.

Haha, tell that to the million plus dead in the USA and their families.

Masks worked up until people got home and took theirs off. They had some mild effect, but they were utterly useless when a strong variant hit- see Korea, South.

There's a reason Korea basically said "eff it" and ripped off the band-aid of lockdowns and let the thing run riot and then burn itself out (to the point where people were basically hoping they caught COVID so they could be done with it). They and the public finally realized that the continued costs were unsustainable and that the only way to move forward was to let what happens happen.

I thought this was supposed to be obvious now for most educated people

Most educated people would understand that there are a host of variables that go into outcomes and why you can get significantly different outcomes between countries that had similar practices, thus suggesting that there are factors beyond those we normally associate.

I still wear my mask, my Friday school has asked me to stop wearing it while I teach, but I've refused, cause I haven't seen any government guidelines that say we can stop wearing them indoors.
Plus I'm headed to nz this summer, and don't want to risk getting it close to my departure time.

I use a clear mask for teaching and I think it is easier for the students when I do.  I, also, would not be comfortable not wearing a mask while teaching.  Especially when I am teaching at more than one school.  I am hoping to visit NZ this summer vacation time as I haven't seen family since early 2020.  Winter in NZ is not my favorite time but I will be unable to visit in January/February as I don't get a winter vacation at my main school - due to major renovations during a long summer vacation. 

I use a clear mask for teaching and I think it is easier for the students when I do.  I, also, would not be comfortable not wearing a mask while teaching.  Especially when I am teaching at more than one school.  I am hoping to visit NZ this summer vacation time as I haven't seen family since early 2020.  Winter in NZ is not my favorite time but I will be unable to visit in January/February as I don't get a winter vacation at my main school - due to major renovations during a long summer vacation.

I don't mind winter in NZ except for when it's raining haha. I haven't seen my family back there since about 2018 myself, I think.
Why wouldn't you get winter vacation if the renovations are happening during summer? couldn't you go to a travel school, or do work from home if the school is unable to prove a place for you to go instead of, what I assume, is making you use all your vacay during summer? :O
I hope your break back home is great regardless!