change the facts, change the outcome: 85% of my state and 99% of my city is vaccinated; death rates and case rates are rapidly decoupling. No fuss from me abou

change the facts, change the outcome: 85% of my state and 99% of my city is vaccinated; death rates and case rates are rapidly decoupling. No fuss from me about wearing a mask, but my risk calculus adjusts as a function of my situation, and my situation in january 2022 is not even close to what it was in march 2020. It was obvious as early as April 2020 that the pipe dream of "contain and extinguish" was never going to come to pass, and that the only likely endgame was that SARS-CoV-2 or a variant of it would become endemic and relatively nonfatal. You cannot realistically eradicate a disease when you're infectious 48 hours before you're symptomatic, so you buckle down and hang tight until therapies and vaccines become available; then you get those things, deploy them at as wide a scale as you possibly can; then you ease up. We did, and we did, so now we are.