Hexbear refuses to let me post the link in the URL field. And the article was the only one I found that laid things out so clearly. The American media simply does not give much of a fuck about covid anymore.
CDC: Nearly Every American Can Drop Wearing Masks Indoors
COVID-19 transmission levels, however, remain high across the majority of the country.
The CDC is really on a pre-election roll. This is from a few days ago...
The CDC has decided to stop tracking and releasing COVID-19 case and death data on a daily basis. These metrics will now be updated only once a week, the agency said today.
Yes, which is where I think the "guard rails" of capital kick in. This approach is favored by capital, which has its tendrils in everything and is threatening to gurgle and die because of lockdowns and masks etc etc, and so "well I guess we should do what people will already do" is allowable discourse by the higher-ups, but "IT'S A PANDEMIC FROM AN AEROSOLIZED VIRUS OBVIOUSLY WEAR THE MASKS" is frowned upon.