What caused the COVID lull from March-Now?

[C(-)ris]

COVID cases are picking up everywhere. We had a solid month where we had few cases, down from 40+ per day down to less than a handful a week. We are now skyrocketing right back towards that 40+ a day number after a month of quiet. What happened? I thought it was the vaccine doing it's thing, or with the warmer weather people were getting outside? Doesn't seem to be the case or numbers would continue to stay low.

[Sarcany]

People stopped wearing masks.

[Lew Zealand]

Vaccine penetration, while significant, is less than personal laziness.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Last week I read something about the new mutant strains were spreading faster (than before) in people under 20. So the recent peak might be due to increased transmission at school sports events with kids breathing hard and not wearing masks.

[p8712]

Things don’t exist in the moment someone becomes bored with them.

[PeterB]

What they said.

No masks + poor vaccine compliance = virus fun!

[Robert M]

C(-)ris,

What lull? We actually had spikes around here, likely due to spring break and holidays.

Robert

[mrbigstuff]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Last week I read something about the new mutant strains were spreading faster (than before) in people under 20. So the recent peak might be due to increased transmission at school sports events with kids breathing hard and not wearing masks.

Could be. My sons' team sent everyone home and they had to quarantine for a while because of one positive. All the kids have been masked up for practices and games. No one else tested positive of about 35 kids. The kid who was positive probably got it from outside the school system. At this point, the schools are going to have to come up with better responses; many of these kids can't stay home any longer (mine could, I think they kind of like remote at this point).

[C(-)ris]

mrbigstuff wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Last week I read something about the new mutant strains were spreading faster (than before) in people under 20. So the recent peak might be due to increased transmission at school sports events with kids breathing hard and not wearing masks.

Could be. My sons' team sent everyone home and they had to quarantine for a while because of one positive. All the kids have been masked up for practices and games. No one else tested positive of about 35 kids. The kid who was positive probably got it from outside the school system. At this point, the schools are going to have to come up with better responses; many of these kids can't stay home any longer (mine could, I think they kind of like remote at this point).
You say that, but the community would be in an uproar if the school suggested discontinuing sports again due to the increased risk. If you don't quarantine then you are just going for the herd immunity approach and that hasn't worked thus far for anyone who has tried it.

[sekker]

It’s from sending kids back to school in MN.