> I believe mask-wearing is still advisable because Covid causes long-term disability, and because patients are infectious before they have symptoms (if, indeed, they ever get them).
With COVID being here to stay that means we would be commiting to wear masks forever (or atleast many decades)... That is an unreasonable ask for society to wear masks forever. I dont think that is reasonable.
> I'm not arguing against open-plan offices: I'm asking against dragging everyone into offices when there's no point. (I'm a software developer, and so I'm more productive at home than when distracted by office chatter.)
In principle I agree, we really dont need to be in offices and working remote for most jobs makes logical sense even without COVID being a consideration. So in that sense I support this.
But requiring companies to do this rather than letting it be the choice of the owner, that doesnt seem reasonable to me.