So, are you among those who have tuned out the coronavirus?
You want the pandemic to be over, so you choose to believe it is.
You've long chucked the mask, if you ever wore one. These days, you hardly give the virus a second thought.
Besides, other people are moving about without masks, packing into baseball stadiums and concert venues. They're going to restaurants and shopping where the only masks seem to be on employees.
Indeed, those of us who are fully vaccinated tend to believe we're infallibly protected against infection, free to abandon masks and social distancing and to do again whatever we did before the pandemic began.
Yet, despite the return of something approaching normalcy, this pandemic is not over.
If you have quit listening to the news, you may have missed the uptick in active covid-19 cases in Arkansas, the new hospitalizations, the additional deaths.
The numbers aren't like they were before there were vaccines and before those vaccines became readily available. But the numbers are on the rise, creating concerns about what could come if more of us don't get vaccinated.
Covid-19, especially the highly transmissible delta variant, is spreading again, hitting poorly vaccinated regions of the country the hardest.
Unfortunately, Arkansas is among those states identified as poorly vaccinated, largely rural states experiencing a surge of cases. Today, the virus' targets are often in their 20s and 30s, people who are proving particularly resistant to getting vaccinated.
Missouri, our neighbor to the north, has it worse and leads the nation in new infections. Intensive care beds are reportedly filling up with young, unvaccinated patients there.
A farming region in the northern part of Missouri and the tourism mecca in the state's southwestern corner, including Springfield and Branson, are particularly hard hit.
Some of these counties are just across the border from Arkansas, counties from which this new strain of the virus may be migrating southward.
Jennifer Dillaha, state epidemiologist, last week recommended Arkansans take steps beyond the guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, given what's been happening in the state.
"I'm encouraging people who are fully vaccinated to go ahead and wear a mask when they're out in public or when they're around large groups of people where they don't know who's vaccinated or who's not, because they still could be exposed and develop mild disease," Dillaha said.
Her view on masks, she explained, is related to what the scientists are seeing now and her increased concern about the delta variant, which first emerged in India and has quickly become the dominant variant in other countries, including the United Kingdom.
What she and others, including Gov. Asa Hutchinson, most commonly do is encourage anyone who is eligible to get vaccinated. Vaccines, Dillaha said, are "about 99 percent effective in keeping people out of the hospital" if they get covid-19.
"A prevailing misconception about covid-19, which could discourage people from getting vaccinated, is that only older adults and people with chronic health conditions can contract severe symptoms of the illness," she said.
"People of any age can have severe disease, and people who have had covid, even mild conditions, can suffer long-term consequences," Dillaha said.
"People tend to overestimate the risk of the vaccine and underestimate the risk of the disease, and they make a misinformed decision (not to get vaccinated)," she said.
For his part, Gov. Hutchinson continues to encourage vaccinations through a state campaign and public appearances.
On Sunday, he told a CBS "Face the Nation" audience that it would help reduce vaccine hesitancy if the vaccines that have been given emergency-use authorization were to get final approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Hutchinson and a host of other influential folks, including sports figures and community leaders, are constantly encouraging vaccination as the way out of this pandemic.
President Joe Biden had set a July 4 goal to get at least one dose of vaccine to 70 percent of adults in America. That apparently isn't going to happen, in large part because of states like this one that are well below that level of vaccination.
Fewer than half the adults in Arkansas are fully vaccinated as of now. Adults with at least one dose of vaccine barely crack the 50 percent mark.
We can do better. We must, for ourselves and for others if we're ever to be truly safe from the coronavirus.