Unless there is going to be a government mandate for vaccination (like there was with polio I believe) then there is really only determining when the next phase

Unless there is going to be a government mandate for vaccination (like there was with polio I believe) then there is really only determining when the next phase happens. I think w/o a mandate the next phase is "manageable disease". If you're in a country with vaccines widely available, there should be statistical models used to determine when to lift mandates. Adult humans have made choices already if they are going to get it or not. If x% of a population is vaccinated and hospitals are not over capacity with cases then this becomes a manageable disease, right? There should be some known rates of surges and how to predict case counts of people that need hospital level services. It would be nice to see a societal culture shift to wearing masks when someone has a respiratory illness to minimize spread, no matter if it is cold/flu/whatever. I believe this is more common in Japan and other countries in that part of the world.