# Are you mostly "back to before COVID" in terms of daily life and behavior? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [June 25, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-mostly-back-to-before-covid-in-terms-of-daily-life-and-behavior/986081 "2023-06-25T13:42:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-mostly-back-to-before-covid-in-terms-of-daily-life-and-behavior/986081/44 "2023-06-26T14:27:44Z")
I posted this in another COVID thread thins morning: > [@Poll in the Polls only thread: Have you had COVID?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-in-the-polls-only-thread-have-you-had-covid/986106/8): > > Mid 2021 is when the vaccines became commonplace and late 2021 was when most of the hiding at home came to an end. Early 2022 was when the Omicron variants, which are more contagious and less hazardous really became the dominant strains out there. So it sure makes sense to me that 2022 would be the bulk of the infections. The last time I though about COVID as something to alter my behavior over was probably in late 2021. In earlier 2021 I wasn’t concerned for myself, but my first wife was in … I closed with “COVID is over.” By which I meant that the public health reaction to COVID is over and now it is simply an endemic part of the human condition as is flu, common cold, heart disease, cancer, and bad driving. COVID certainly exists and infects; it just isn’t special nor does it warrant special precautions. Or at least that’s how the public at large is now treating it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-mostly-back-to-before-covid-in-terms-of-daily-life-and-behavior/986081)._