> I'd say the responsible thing to do is verify if the risk-benefit ratio actually warranted mandates or not for each new variant that became dominant. By the time Omicron became the dominant variant, I could not see any strong reason why mandates were still in place.

How is that any different from what happened? When Omicron's severity was understood, vaccines mandates went away.

> Do you know when I decided to leave lockdown?

Why don't you tell me? I was able to leave by summer 2021 because I wasn't swayed by conspiracy theory blogs.