People can take protective measures when appropriate, but there's really no way to keep the disabled and immunocompromised safe. The latest variants are so contagious that everyone will be exposed eventually. The virus is here to stay and there will be no significant herd immunity effect.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

Don’t the vaccines do this? And aren’t the immunocompromised already taking extra steps (like not hanging out in high transmission environments)?

I’m not really convinced “long Covid” is something to worry about for people that aren’t already at risk for having bad outcomes from the disease in the first place. I’m open to reading something to convince me that it’s different from being tired for a week or two after getting other respiratory viruses. This [1] is from May. I’m not entirely convinced it’s even real.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/search-long-covid

There’s a continent with tons of immunocompromised people with no masking and very limited public health resources that seems to be doing okay. I’d be thrilled with the outcomes they’re getting, actually.