As for me, I'm staying as isolated as possible. It's been ten days since my second vaccine (and happily I had no reaction to either) but I'm not going anywhere other the grocery store every ten days and my hair salon which is at 25% capacity once a month.
No one knows if the vaccines offer protection from the new variants. (Some experts say they do, just not as much). No one knows how many people have gotten sick with the new variants. Not every positive test is screened for variants. No one knows if people who already had coronavirus can still contract a variant. How many jail admittees in the past month have tested positive for a variant of the virus? Are they even testing for that?
The CDC says cases are on the rise.
My advice (stricter than that presently called for): Wear a clean mask every day; wash your hands every time you touch something some else might have recently touched. Don't attend public events. Cook and eat your own food; Stay home unless you have to go out to work or see the doctor or get groceries. And as always, don't follow leaders and watch your parking meters.
If we keep reopening at the ridiculous rates currently proposed by most states, we will just play yo-yo with the virus forever. Some weeks up, some weeks down, but we will never be free of it. Anyone expecting life to resume to the way it was in 2019 needs to re-adjust their thinking: It's not going to happen in the U.S. unless we do what other countries who have almost eliminated it have done: Close up shop entirely and stay home until enough people have immunity.