I general don't trust much of what I have seen promoted from the Medium website. They had some misleading or false articles earlier during pandemic.
Two things in the article don't sound quit right. I highly doubt a medical doctor would be working at a drive through covid testing sight. I also assume the playoff game tickets would be hard to get or at least very expensive. The author talked about going to the game as if getting in was easy.
At others state covid is here and will continue to be with us. Getting to the new normal may mean wearing masks when it makes sense and showing prof of vaccination for some events. I too question BAA decision to test unvaccinated but not vaccinate. Maybe they will rethink that decision next year but as it was only 3 out the ~1500 tested had positive results. The vaccines were hope to provide greater than 50% protection from serious disease requiring hospitalizations or causing death. They exceeded that and until Delta also appeared to prevent someone with covid infection from being able to transmit the disease. Many or more before delta may have not even had symptoms or at least more serious symptoms. Now with Delta the vaccines are not as great as they once were but are still providing better than the minimum hoped for results from the start.
About 6 months ago medical experts said we won't reach herd immunity. One said covid would be with us for decades. Another said it would be with us for a generation. We just need to do what we can to limit our chance of dying from it as now we are being told everyone will get it sooner or later. I listen to This Week In Virology. In a recent podcast they too said everyone will get covid eventually. We have heard stories where some may have gotten covid more than once. I still wear a mask in stores even though it is no longer required. I ate outside at restaurants in Boston. I only ate inside one restaurant thus far during the pandemic because it was nearly empty. I am going on living my life as I choose. I flew to Boston for the race and I flew early this earlier this year to go on hiking on vacation with a family member in some national parks.
If I get it I want to have the best chance of avoiding hospitalization and serious death. I also don't want to be sick at home for a long time. I don't want to suffer with long covid symptoms for 6 months or longer. So I received my 2nd Phizer vaccine shot in early April about two week before another race. I plan to get a Moderna booster soon. I got my flu vaccine shortly after returning from Boston.