Honestly? I think here in the US its all going to become yet another regional thing. The Blue States will stay locked down, the Red States will be open and telling the Feds "Piss Off!"
I remember going on a roadtrip with my family back over the summer. We went from out home in Kansas, went up through Nebraska to South Dakota (to see the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, and the Black Hills), then went to Cheyenne, WY (I wanted to see the UP museum and railyard), then finished out as a few days at Estes Park, CO (original plan was to go hiking in the Rockies, then it snowed 2 feet the day after we got there. Go figure.)
As we were going through most of the country, we very quickly learned one thing: Nobody cared. In SD, the only place we wore a mask was at Mt. Rushmore because it was federal land, and once we realize the park rangers had no damns to give, we took them off. And we went to plenty of places where they had the "wear a mask" sign on the door, but no one, not even employees, were wearing them.
When we went to WY, they gave even less of a damn. There were some smaller towns we went to that they didnt even bother putting up the fake sign. We even began to forget there was Covid going on.
Then we got to Colorado. Rural Colorado? Not too terribly different from the rest of where we had been. Estes Park itself? Mask everywhere, stores freaked out if you didnt have a mask on, and even when we were walking down the street some people gave us dirty looks for not wearing a mask...OUTDOORS! Although once we went to the Rockies it went right back to "Nobody Cares".
It really did a good job of showing me that, for a large chunk of the population, this stopped being about a potential illness a long time ago, and became nothing but a political position, and they refuse to back down.
Honestly? I think here in the US its all going to become yet another regional thing. The Blue States will stay locked down, the Red States will be open and telling the Feds "Piss Off!"
I remember going on a roadtrip with my family back over the summer. We went from out home in Kansas, went up through Nebraska to South Dakota (to see the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, and the Black Hills), then went to Cheyenne, WY (I wanted to see the UP museum and railyard), then finished out as a few days at Estes Park, CO (original plan was to go hiking in the Rockies, then it snowed 2 feet the day after we got there. Go figure.)
As we were going through most of the country, we very quickly learned one thing: Nobody cared. In SD, the only place we wore a mask was at Mt. Rushmore because it was federal land, and once we realize the park rangers had no damns to give, we took them off. And we went to plenty of places where they had the "wear a mask" sign on the door, but no one, not even employees, were wearing them.
When we went to WY, they gave even less of a damn. There were some smaller towns we went to that they didnt even bother putting up the fake sign. We even began to forget there was Covid going on.
Then we got to Colorado. Rural Colorado? Not too terribly different from the rest of where we had been. Estes Park itself? Mask everywhere, stores freaked out if you didnt have a mask on, and even when we were walking down the street some people gave us dirty looks for not wearing a mask...OUTDOORS! Although once we went to the Rockies it went right back to "Nobody Cares".
It really did a good job of showing me that, for a large chunk of the population, this stopped being about a potential illness a long time ago, and became nothing but a political position, and they refuse to back down.