I notice that most people don't seem to give a crap about the virus anymore. Restaurants and stores are filled to the brim when the restrictions are removed, parks have dozens of people playing, and you rarely hear people on social media say #stayhome or #wearamask aside from political pundits. Sure, sometimes I see people walking outside with masks (lmao), but they're the minority. Despite this, what you hear from the news and the Ontario government, it still feels like it's still March 2020.
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I think heavily depends on both where you live and what you do. I'm in a metro Texas area, and for the most part it feels like people have moved on totally with the exception of high mask compliance still. Liberal circles in particular. I met up with some liberals (family unfortunately) and the mask theater with them was ridiculous. It was like a badge of honor to put their mask to leave the table at the patio restaurant. Clearly they don't give a shit because they don't live like they care, but they have to show the facade.
Rural Texas and a few surrounding states I've been in, WuFlu is gone. I love getting out of town. People are polite, normal, look at each other again, smile, etc. Funny enough I've grown a soft spot for normal happy kids. Kids have always leaned towards annoying to me, but I guess since I walked by the school almost every day and see them out with their sad little masks on the playground it makes me happy when I see them normal.
Hobbies matter too, what I can gather some of them are still really scaredy. I can't get a group of guys to get together to play poker or anything anymore. I've sort of moved on from a lot of my friends because if we don't actually do anything as friends does it even count anymore. I've found new stuff though, there's a lot of fun things to do out there where no one cares about Covid. They are more healthy hobbies anyway as it's skill building stuff.