@rudyschwartz@dobbs.town @freemo
I was talking about masking, not post-vaccination behavior. Maybe you haven't witnessed large crowds of densely-packed cloth-or-medical-mask-wearing leftists during holiday shopping in the middle of a huge spike of Omicron. I have!

One of the biggest and sharpest spikes of Omicron anywhere in the United States was in the San Francisco Bay Area--and SF and surrounding communities saw fit to institute a mask mandate until the case counts went down (https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/27/san-francisco-to-ease-mask-rule-as-covid-19-cases-fall/), but not mandate any particular type of mask.

You could argue that in a highly vaccinated population like in that part of California, given a less dangerous variant like Omicron, stronger measures weren't necessary...but...it's very weird to decide that a high-effort modest measure is necessary but a low-additional-effort very effective measure is not necessary.