# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [January 1, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428 "2021-01-01T08:03:30Z")\
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**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:** [February 15, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428/542 "2021-02-15T02:29:07Z")

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Ref this line of discussion and the several posts which followed from it …

> [@asahi](#):
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> What worries me in the post-vaccine era is the likelihood that people who have received the vaccine, or those who will have claim to have received the vaccine, will now insist that they be allowed to live life as before the pandemic: no masks, no distancing, no closures…everything as before.

See this thread from 2 weeks ago:

> [@Should officials continue to encourage restrictions for vaccinated people? Should they expect such restrictions to be followed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-officials-continue-to-encourage-restrictions-for-vaccinated-people-should-they-expect-such-restrictions-to-be-followed/931817):
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> [This thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/l72ogo/dr_fauci_getting_vaccine_doesnt_mean_you_have/) on Reddit exemplifies the kind of discussion I’m talking about that I’ve seen multiple times when responding to similar statements by doctors and politicians. Is it harmful to tell people to obey restrictions even after getting vaccinated? Those who say so seem to think that it discourages people from getting vaccinated, because why take a “rushed” vaccine if it won’t make any difference to your life anyway, and that people are going to go hog wild after they get vaccinated, that nee…

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