If you follow the federal or state government requirements / guidelines / advice for “fully vaccinated” will you be in compliance with their stuff? Strictly speaking, No. Because you’re not fully vaccinated as that term is defined. Can you do it anyhow? Yes. Are you as immune as you’ll be 2 weeks post 2nd dose? Not quite. is the difference enough to matter? Depends; do ya feel lucky, @Deeg? Well … do ya?
In between these choices is 100% judgement being made in the absence of data. Which is to say guesswork.
My personal choice was to alter none of my behavior between before dose 1 and 2 weeks post dose 2. But to alter my attitude towards the larger picture of whether risk/reward for me and for my behavior will improve soon or not.
This is the key sentence.
What have you been doing the last year-ish? If you’ve been hiding at home like a hermit for the last year+ then even 2 weeks after your second dose you “going to the stores” (whatever that means to you) will be vastly increasing your risk over anything you’ve run for the last 14 months, vaccinated or no. Are you ready to vastly increase your risk? If not, stay home until you are.
Millions of Americans are unvaccinated and are running around like COVID is over. Those folks are out there and your shiny full vaccination is a shield that stops roughly 9 of their 10 assaults on you.
Getting away from the idea that pre-vax meant only hermit-living was safe enough and that post-vax life is 2019 again is key. The vaccinated among us have only gone from severely fed to partly fed. Nothing more than that. It won’t get materially better until substantially all of humanity is vaccinated some time in 2024.