Curiously, even here in Faucistan (home of NIH), almost nobody wears masks. For that matter, nobody's talking about Covid at all. The county government's still pushing shots and boosters, but even that's become fairly halfhearted and pro-forma; it seems more like a bureaucracy running on autopilot rather than real conviction.

My sense is that last winter really undermined the hysteria. Pretty much everyone here was jabbed, but everyone got it anyway, or at least everyone knows someone who did. So they have direct experience falsifying the "winter of death" nonsense. Nobody's admitting that it was all rubbish. They might, if pressed, handwave about the jabs preventing infections from becoming serious. But mostly they just don't want to talk about it.

Even the local Karenwaffe has moved on. Couple of days ago, they trying to start a campaign to ban sugary snacks in local stores, to save us all from Diabetes 2. They'll always find some reason to be hysterical and controlling. But they seem to have figured out -- or at least intuited -- that Covid doesn't work for that purpose anymore.