Florida accepted that everyone will eventually get covid, and the statistics for death / hospitalization rates for the non-immuno-compromised and non-elderly are very low, so they just did the "Keep Calm and Carry On" ethos and it became endemic much sooner. However they did have strict requirements for nursing homes.

Basically, let everyone choose their own risk tolerance, and accept that we can't control this. Very slowly, after years of trying to fight the inevitable, liberal states are understanding this. But they are still pretending that a force-field surrounds you the moment you start eating food or drinking which makes masks not required at that moment, which is obviously absurd.

> But they are still pretending that a force-field surrounds you the moment you start eating food or drinking which makes masks not required at that moment, which is obviously absurd.

Here in SF the force field comes into effect the instant you sit down at your table and only dissipates when you stand up to leave... but God help you if, after a 90 minute maskless meal, you don't put your mask back on for the 15 second walk to the door.