I actually do plan on masking forever...under certain specific circumstances. I intend, for example, to have a KN-95 with me in my riding bag, because this was a wonderful time to have a bad fall and end up in the ER, and I never want to sit in an ER for hours without a mask on again. You have NO idea what anyone else in that ER has...COVID, RSV, influenza... Doctors' offices. Maybe public transit at rush hour. Absolutely if I'm sick but have to go buy food or whatever.

Universal masking, though, causes accessibility issues and social distancing causes mental health problems.

We need to get ourselves vaccinated and hope that growing population immunity will slowly turn COVID-19 into a flu-like illness that, while you still don't want to catch it and certainly don't want to give it to your 90 year old grandma in a nursing home who might die from a rhinovirus, doesn't dominate our lives.

That appears to be happening. Slowly, but happening.