I understand, Nammu, for many countries, but here with the severely punitive lockdowns and a less effective vaccine being used, I think we still have a ways to go here. We were already being subjected to military controls and curfews when the protests started in October 2019. I don't know if the government is going to give up that power any time soon. My area is currently on weekend lockdown with one permit to go out and we saw 10 military guys with guns checking last weekend when all we wanted to do is go to the grocery store. If they relax restrictions and the protests start up again, they may use the virus numbers to implement new lockdowns even though the hospitals aren't overwhelmed. The vaccine being used here mostly reduces the severity of infection, so there will still be positive cases, but fewer people in the hospital, supposedly.


I am trying to hope I am wrong but everything we have been through in the last year and a half doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling. For countries that don't even have access to the less effective vaccines, the panorama is more complicated.