We need to move on with life. I feel like for the most part back home in NJ we have. Masks are only mandated on public transportation and in school, everything else is 100% "normal". Here in Germany I have to show my vaccine at every single establishment I want to enter and in The Netherlands everything shuts down super early. Those who chose not to get vaccinated, that's their decision and society needs to move on. We can't protect those who chose not to be protected and we certainly shouldn't bend over backwards for such people.
It's in the ethics of medicine to treat anyone as equal as possible, regardless of their actions (or lack thereof) to maintain their health. Any established society can't "move on" as long as this disease keeps compromising healthcare systems. Omicron has forced a restrictions revamp in many European countries due to it's high contagion rate. If a government stops taking necessary measures to slow down the spread then mortality rises, either directly from Covid or indirectly because people die from other illnesses.
But this goes directly to what I've said: COVID has defied "wisdom" every step of the way. If there's one message in ALL of this COVID nonsense - and it's a message that is not going to be learned, I can promise you that - is that "man plans, and God laughs". California has some of the most restrictive procedures in the country, and Florida, is, by most accounts, the Wild Wild West when it comes to restrictions.... and their numbers are relatively consistent in terms of cases and deaths per capita. We've had several outbreaks - one famous one was in the midwest - and they didn't conform to either the patterns of restrictions, or the pattern of compliance to recommendations.
I'm not saying that we don't do restrictions, but that we hold those restrictions in some perspective; they are improving the odds, they are not absolutes.
That's my point. Humans have a false belief that they can control and dominate the world. Covid is proving that. Humans can make predictions, prophecies, and make models about the future, but Nature will prove them wrong. False prophets play on people's fear and know how to manipulate them into following their control, order, and rule.
Humans can do everything to improve their odds of not dying. But If death is a part of Nature, you're trying to toy with and mess with nature. Chinese tried inventing an elixer for a longer life, yet guess what happened. Nature turned it around and they created one of the most destructive things that doesn't enhance life, it takes it away...that is Gun Powder.
Most Indigenous cultures understand humans can not control the world. There's a few cultures and this is their leaders, who believe that false ideal that humans can dominate the world.
This is why I say, if the government really cared about peoples health. They would be this adamant about the very things that are causing the health conditions that make us susceptible to diseases. What is causing heart disease, diabetes, obesity? Why isn't the government enacting mandates to pretty much remedy these health issues?
I can take a guess and say it's because of industrialization. These sicknesses are the consequences of mass production so we humans can live in simplicity. The destruction of the ecosystem that we humans rely upon for our sustenance can make us unhealthy because the soil, water, and air is toxic.
Why isn't the government addressing this or doing studies to prove whether industrialization is or isn't causing health issues for every organism in this planet?
I can take another guess and say it's because industrialization businesses dominate and control the world.