Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. As my colleagues Maura Dolan and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde report, some are making plans to catch up on postponed doctor’s appointments, eat inside restaurants, hug family members and enjoy a sex life with other vaccinated people. But not everyone plans to be a bit more lax in their outings. Many, my co-workers report, have become accustomed to the surges in cases, the new variants, and the caution ingrained from a year of warnings and rising death tolls. They want to see cases drop and more people vaccinated before truly easing their guard — because even though the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are around 95% effective, they’re still not 100%.