UPDATE: In the US, COVID wastewater levels are now low.
If you've been holding off getting healthcare or doing other indoor activities, now is one of the best times of the year to do these things more safely.
Based on patterns from previous years, in the US, spring and early summer are usually the times when there is lower COVID-19 transmission compared to other times of year.
Although COVID wastewater levels are relatively lower now, there is still a "substantial" baseline level of COVID (thanks to more transmissible variants), so it still makes sense to take precautions like masking when possible (e.g. in healthcare settings).
This will probably have to be repeated indefinitely
Only wearing masks when cases are high is how they become high in the first place, and if people see drops in wastewater levels as an opportunity to stop masking, they are creating the conditions for the next wave -- one in which they might be patient zero for a new variant
@currentbias I really don't see people reacting to data any more. Those who mask are committed to masking forever, and those who don't are not putting them back on with the rise and fall of cases. At this point masks are a lifestyle choice not a reaction.
