AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Shortly before July 4, I said I thought experts like Fauci were inching towards recommending that the vaccinated start taking precautions again but were holding off until after the holiday. Too many people were looking forward to enjoying the day maskless; it would have been demoralizing and infuriating after 150 million vaccinations for the feds to suddenly turn around at the last minute and ask them to cover up at the barbecue. It’s after July 4 now. Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are rising in the U.S. again thanks to the B.1.617 Delta variant. And so the era of precautions has officially resumed in America’s biggest county.