[mchusma]

I think some of your points are valid.*

However, if people are to wear masks until covid is truly gone, you may be asking people to wear masks forever. I think once covid is less of a population risk than a bad flu, all mandates should be dropped.

You should also disregard anti-vaxers* from the stats. If they want to die, fine. So at this point we have anti-vaxers, kids under 12, and some very rare medical cases left in the US now. With community spread where it is (low and dropping), the flu is genuinely scarier for kids under 12, and likely to kill more.

There is no quantitative reason for any restrictions at this point.

* I'll note the first thing that should have been prioritized is un-banning vaccines. *Anti vaxers in this context means anyone who at this point has had months to get a free vaccine and still hasn't, they have now earned the label.