Well presumably there was more social distancing and distance learning in the previous year, for obvious reasons.

> If the vaccines cannot prevent infection and return us to normalcy, what then, is the point of returning to campus at all?

Fundamentally wrong, borderline insane, conculsion. Now the virus has become entirely endemic, and antibodies are widely spread in the population it should be treated just as previous sars, flu or rhino viruses. I.e. we ignore them in day to day life.