I leave a mask in my car. It gets used 15 minutes per month at most.
Went to have outpatient surgery yesterday, removing skin cancers. Doc & medical staff wearing masks, receptionists and checkout/billing people not. No patients wearing masks and no expectation that any would. I didn’t.
Went to our condo Halloween party back around then. 70-plus guests, all elderly mostly vigorous people indoors sharing food, drink, dancing & singing. No masks anywhere. I expect the same at our Christmas party next week.
I now live in an apartment building with about 1,000 residents all told. Plus probably 30 employees. I see lots of people coming and going every day. I see one mask every couple of days or so. Looks decidedly odd.
At the grocery store I might see a customer or two wearing a mask. Or I might not. Some stores all the staff do. Other stores no staff do.
Masked restaurant staff are now very rare. Ate dinner tonight at an open-air eatery among a group of similar open-air restaurants in a tourist zone. Probably saw 1,000 people wandering around or eating here or there. Lots of groups, lots of laughing & carousing. Mostly outdoors, but dense outdoors. Saw zero masks, not even on staffers.
At work I definitely see it’s regional both within the US and internationally. Some flights most passengers are masked, other flights it’s maybe 5%. Depends totally on where we are. But the mask-heavy flights are increasingly rare. Substantially zero airline employees wear them anywhere, much less everywhere.
Just about every country my employer services, over 100, have withdrawn masking requirements in airports and on airplanes.
COVID may not be over, but Masking. Is. Over. At least around here and most of the many other places I visit.