After all, why not?

Since the first wave of SARS2 hit the US, I've been advocating for people to take serious precautions and do everything they could to avoid it. At first, we were all in this together. Some of us sewed fabric masks to conserve our supply of PPE for healthcare workers, others rapidly learned online teaching programs and began implementing them, and still others began researching a vaccine to help reduce the damage this virus could do on our bodies.  For five years we've had wave after wave of illness, usually at least two major waves per year, as people have rapidly dropped any precautions they took between 2020 and 2021. When I was pregnant summer of 2021, the government began implementing the "vax and relax" campaign. Biden claimed the pandemic was over right around the time I was giving birth to a premature infant. The complications I faced during pregnancy (blood pressure and brain disorders) both put me at higher risk for complications from COVID. Pregnancy itself