One last thing: > So even more important than the 'regional' strategies now in place, would be for people to declare & behave consistently with their own perso

One last thing: > So even more important than the 'regional' strategies now in place, would be for people to declare & behave consistently with their own personal risk-tolerance. At an extreme, this might include wearing some outward declaration of your risk-profile, and segregating shared facilities, by place or time, to minimize interactions between "let 'er rip" & "avoiding" subpopulations. Yes, exactly this. This is another reason I hate universal masking, because even if I think masks work when worn properly, I still have to assume that everyone is wearing them because they're mandated, but don't actually know how to use them properly. I would much rather have it be voluntary, and then if I see someone wearing a mask, at least I know they give a little bit of a fuck. Now granted, I still wouldn't be able to (if I were trying to avoid infection) assume they knew what they were doing, but it's better than the current reality where, say, employees are forced to wear masks, and then the moment I ask them to repeat something they said because masks stifle speech, they immediately pull down their mask and tell me what they were trying to say, completely defeating the point. I love the idea of literally signalling risk tolerance. The only thing is, that still requires ceding public space for some portion of time to the super freaked out people, which is a losing battle, so ultimately I still think we should stick with the "old" way of doing things, which is: if you're a germaphobe/agoraphobe, you stay in your damn house and watch netflix for your whole life like you did before, and everyone's "happy".