Not sure what you mean as it was a bit of a long comment, but "taking reasonable precautions and moving forward based on a fair assessment of cost and benefit"

Not sure what you mean as it was a bit of a long comment, but "taking reasonable precautions and moving forward based on a fair assessment of cost and benefit" is pretty much what I think that dental offices are doing. Why? Aerosols. Half of what they're doing is blowing saliva particles in a close space. Surgical mask is just not enough in this scenario. How far you go it's debatable - probably N95 and face shields are a minimum. But that's just a rather isolated niche. As far as the rest of society goes, I'm pretty ok with masks and basic distancing.