Reading the news today, funny to see these two headlines right next to each other:
"COVID numbers extremely low - incidence below 200" (in Germany) and
"COVID numbers exploding: Portugal dealing with new variant"
Dear new variant, please just eff off.

Things seem pretty much back to normal here. Masks are only still mandatory on public transport - in Germany that is, I was in NL last week and no masks anywhere. Not even in the hospital. Also traveled in Belgium, where masks were still mandatory on public transport at that time (it ended a few days later) and only about 10% of the people on the train were actually wearing masks. And we're still working from home, but mostly because people are so used to it and don't want to go back to the office. (I would want to go to the office, not full time but at least a few days a week, if I worked in a nicer team )

I'm hoping if there's a new wave, it at least holds off until September. I've started booking my travels for July and August. Another thing that worries me is gigs might get cancelled if artists test positive, and money spent on travel will be wasted.