What's your solution to the pandemic, Kiero? Just let it rage?
If there ever was a pandemic, it passed last summer. And yes, "let it rage", same as we have done every fucking year before 2020.
If you still believe there's an active outbreak going on that merits all this bullshit right now, you're tapped in the head.
Just to be clear, "bullshit" means everything--vaccinations, social distancing, handwashing, masks, self-isolation, contact-tracing, testing--or does it mean just mask-wearing?
I am an anti-social fuck-wad, so I am always social distancing.
Covid isn't notionally spread by touch. So other than normal hand washing, I would put it into the hygiene theater category.
Other than a properly-fitted, properly-worn, clean, N-95 or a respirator (half or full-face), a hard NO.
One good thing that has come out of this is that people (at least where I work) have stopped coming into work when they are sick. That's something that I have tried to be mindful of over my career.
Can anyone point me to where contract-tracing did fuck-all anything? If not, then "bullshit" it is.
I could see situations where testing is appropriate. But the current testing is bollocks. Moreover, it begs the question of why stop at covid? For example, let's say you want to visit your granny in the nursing home. So you get tested for covid, 'cause you don't want to be killing granny. But what about flu, pneumonia, etc. that could also kill granny?
All that said, I would let everyone make their own choices. You want to take the vaccine and booster ad nauseum, wear two masks, wear a 3' radius QE collar, get tested every week, and log in with the state everywhere you go, have at it.
YMMV.