Noticed something similar when my county reinstated indoor mask mandates a couple of weeks ago. This is a deep-blue DC suburb full of Federal employees and hangers-on. The cult of the government "expert" is almost literally the established religion here. And yet many people are visibly half-assing the mask-wearing this time around. Not a majority, but certainly more than before, enough to be noticeable. People at the margin are starting to get -- or at least intuit -- that this is all theater and the government is making it up as it goes along.

Granted, some people are wedded to this stuff as a form of status-signaling. Soon the three-jabbers will be sneering at those who are merely "fully vaccinated" under the old dispensation. But I'm optimistic that the each time the goalposts move, some additional increment of people will realize it's pointless to keep chasing after them.