Mostly agree. We're getting closer each day.

Opening up the vaccine to all is awesome, but it will take weeks or months for that to reduce spread.

Even if we could somehow vaccinate everyone tomorrow, we'd be 14 days out from partial protection and 4-5 weeks from full protection. Reality is that this will be staggered, and we have to get enough of the population on board.

I thought this discussion was about vaccinated people continuing to wear masks to prevent spread. Not about keeping kids out of school or business restrictions.

The issues are linked

School districts and the local governments that regulate business are going to be influenced by what the CDC says.

CDC issues guidance on multiple issues concurrently.

I don't see how a recommendation to continue wearing masks becomes a recommendation to shut down schools or businesses.

They've issued guidance on those issues separately.

As a Californian, I'd like to know that too. Yet here...

...we are, with the school districts planning for Hybrid Learning next year.

Isn't that a California problem,

(or more specifically, a local school district issue) and not a CDC/Fauci issue?

Yes *

Are they planning for ONLY hybrid learning?

Or are ther preparing for the possibility of hybrid learning because there's the possibility that herd immunity will not happen by fall?

Or that there are still parents who will not be comfortable sending their unvaccinated children to school, and those kids need to get some sort of education as well?

My kids' district here in IL went back full last week (3 days after I contracted COVID, unfortunately, so my kids are still in isolation after I passed it to them), but there are still kids that are full remote, and there are still accommodations being made for kids', like mine, that are in quarantine or isolation.

Next week can't come soon enough.