So after leaving the metro area for the first time since the statewide restrictions were lifted and seeing how quickly mask use was more or less abandoned in areas where we know vax rates aren't that high, I'm pretty sure this is setting up to a bloodbath if the nastier variants circulate at higher volumes in more mid-sized cities and leaders are reluctant to put restrictions back in place.
You'd think conservative white people would want to keep their numbers high, but flunking a pandemic isn't really going to do it.