I'm feeling frustrated with covid discourse these days. I think it's easy to conflate three distinct things:
1) Truth: what do interventions do?
2) Individual values: what interventions are worth it for me?
3) Community values: what interventions are worth imposing on others?
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Now that everyone in my community has had ample opportunity to get vaccinated, and with Omicron looking pretty mild in vaccinated people, I think that very few interventions are worth imposing on others.
Don't want to wear a mask? Fine by me.
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(The only interventions that I'd still advocate for are "background infrastructure" with positive effects outside of covid, like air filters. Let's see if we can just eradicate the flu in the US for $100 billion = ~10 years of flu costs?)
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Air filters are really good appliances! I have one to help with dust and it's cheap and quiet. They're basically zero effort once they're set up, unlike masks or shutting down businesses. Lots of people out west already have them for smoke season.
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I know! Not to mention resilience to future respiratory pandemics.