O.M.G!!! Delta has definitely arrived in my rural NY county.
After vaccines came out, our infection rate dropped until it reached days at a time with 0 new cases, 0 deaths, and 0 hospitalizations by mid June. Occasionally there were 2 or 3 new cases.
Then, 3 weeks ago, cases started rising, from 0 to 3, then 5 at a time a few days in a row. Then 15.
Last Friday, there were 40 active cases, with 4 hospitalizations. I just checked our county health department website. There were 53 new cases over the weekend, 4 hospitalizations, and 1 death.
It will get much worse. The full vaccination rate for the county is 43%. The partial rate (1 shot) is 46%.
There are two small cities in the county. I live in one of them. The rest of the county is small villages, and farms. There are quite a few anti vaxxers and anti maskers in this area. People are still acting like the pandemic is over, but in reality, the next wave has just begun and nobody seems to be noticing it.
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AHigh's currently "tourist season" here (Lake George) and I've seem license plates even from distant states: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Utah! And today I drove through Lake George Village and the sidewalks were packed, as usual. Last year everything was closed. When I wasn't fighting heavy traffic I checked for masks and saw very few. Until last month they were mandated to enter any business - and it was enforced. 
The latest from the County website:
10 additional COVID cases, 10 recoveries
Warren County Health Services reported 10 additional COVID-19 cases Monday along with 10 additional recoveries.
Warren County Health Services is monitoring 111 active COVID cases as of Monday, 104 of them suffering from mild illness. Seven (7) are hospitalized Monday, three (3) in critical condition, and four (4) in moderate condition.
One of the critical individuals is a child who was too young to be vaccinated when they contracted COVID-19.
One (1) of Monday’s new cases involved a person in quarantine because of a prior exposure, while two (2) related to travel to southern states, one (1) stemmed from a workplace exposure and others were undetermined.
The continued increase in cases are the result of the highly transmissible "Delta" variant of COVID. Warren County is currently among the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s counties with “high” transmission rates of COVID-19; find details here: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home.
But the way I usually keep track is from the local (Glens Falls) paper. They've been very good, routinely report the latest county Covid news right on the front page, have done that from the beginning - and it isn't looking good.
Not to mention that it's the height of the tourist season in Lake George. The car I saw from Utah was at a gas station/convenience store that I pass when I leave my house, many of them get off at the closest highway exit. And we usually get a lot of Canadian visitors, too, mostly from Ontario and Quebec, but I have noticed there have been none for over a year - until last week, when I saw two cars from Ontario and I did a double take.
I'm just anxious now about what the Covid numbers are going to be like in the fall after the influx of tourists, like I said I have noticed numerous cars from down South. And since the mask mandate was rescinded, just in time for the influx of the crowds in July, I'm worried since the numbers are bad enough now. As the county website said, it's the Delta variant. Not to mention, there was a quarantine in place this time last year, but now that we have the Delta to worry about, everything's opened now and the tourists are back.
And there's traditionally a motorcycle rally every year in Lake George, too - it's usually in June, but someone asked the other day if it had just been postponed. And those folks show up in droves from all over, too.
These really are scary times. 
