If you have been vaccinated, then the current strains are about as deadly as the flu. We still need to keep ready for new strains and for sudden surges that can quickly overwhelm a single location’s health care capacity. This is true of influenza as well, a new strain hitting a small contained community can cause issues.
That’s gonna suck for everywhere except California and New York. Go look at a map of Federal spending and you’ll discover that the Red states need the rest of the county to prop them up.