Thread by @DKThomp

Vaccinated America has for months been splintering into two big camps: "We still need widespread COVID precautions" vs. "We just need to move on."

Omicron has deepened that divide.

So I wrote about the rise of the "Vaxxed and Done."

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This is my best effort at summarizing the views of the "Vaxxed and Done."

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This is my best effort at summarizing the opposition to the "Vaxxed and Done" philosophy.

Any attempt to summarize a viewpoint you don't entirely agree with is a risky thing.

But the purpose of this piece is neither to endorse nor explode the Vaxxed and Done ideology, but to recognize its emergence as a really important phenomenon.

I think there would be more room for a larger third category—"Vaxxed and Cautious Until Omicron Burns Through and Then Prepared to Be Done"—that would be larger if more people had confidence that many COVID precautions (eg in schools) weren't de facto indefinite.