Remember Asia in general still has a mask mandate that is not expected to end any time soon and could be extended like what Hitler did with the enabling act.
Heck, all the focus against vaccines can be easily used and taken advantage of to justify the coming of "1 month" lockdowns that WILL last for more than a decade and you somehow had to mask inside your home while availability of food wholly depends if your local sheriff/governor/government is a soy-eating femboy clown or a favorite-playing busybody.
So why are all the talk about masks and lockdowns inexplicably vanishing while attention is unanimously piled upon the vaccines? I am not saying the vaccines are not dangerous but we're definitely missing something.
It was/is a fear of mine that these mandates would be solidified if the line got pushed. The good news is that, at least in America, the line was pushed to vaccine mandates, but mask mandates and lockdowns essentially went away.
It's still shitty because there are a select few places that still have and enforce mask mandates, and because they're so infrequent, they're not a strong inconvenience like a general mask mandate, that they may stick around forever.
Some employers are still requiring masks for employees, but I don't see any near me that actually require them for customers. And only about 5-10% of customers choose to wear one anywhere.
And lockdowns? That shit's long over in America, right? I live in a rural area, so I don't know about the hellholes, but are any businesses closed anywhere in the country?