Transmission happens indoors. Outdoor transmission of the virus is rare..
Vaccinations protect people. The info on new cases and hospitalizations proves that. I don't know about mandates, as Americans have rejected mandates since the days of the Boston Tea Party. Did lockdowns work? I don't know, but I don't fault anyone for trying whatever they could to keep viral transmission down.Perhaps now the person who wrote this will realize that and change what they wrote:Keep in mind that Hospitalization and covid cases was at low when we had a lower vaccine rate amongst the state with no lockdowns in the months of June 2021 and July 2021.
Now, instead of bitching and moaning, how do we, as a country, join together and deal with this new normal we have? We vaccinate our children at birth and before they go to school... we get flu shots every winter (at least I do) ... and we want to protect our fellow man. How to we do that?