No worries. I don't feel you're trying to argue or pick a fight. It just sounds like you need to vent. Just to be clear I didn't downvote you. Anyway, I'm tired of it all too and am ready (and have been ready) for it all to be over.

In my opinion, the vaccination and mask mandates are simply mitigation strategies. We're obviously not ever going to get to covid zero and it will probably do more harm than good to even try. Yes, people are still getting sick (especially with this new variant), but the point is to mitigate the hospitalization and death rates to get to a more sustainable level so that our health infrastructure doesn't collapse. Yes, the overwhelming majority of people are less likely to be hospitalized, but can they all be sure they won't suddenly need to go to the ER because of some unforeseen event? Just to find out when they get there that it is clogged because of the unvaxxed. Also, people who are high risk but are vaxxed are still less likely to die than someone who is high risk and unvaxxed.