Japan as usual has the answers.
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2234.html"Mask-wearing and other virus-related rules have never been legally enforced in Japan, and vaccination certificates are currently not being used widely.
Instead, the government has released guidelines on how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which are widely followed by the vast majority of people."
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Japan never even had any mask mandates. Never had any legally enforced covid rules.
Okay, it probably won't work in America I'll grant you that but the fact is that masks work and only if pretty much everyone is wearing them. Masks help stop the spread when vaccinations fail. So how do you get to there without laws? Maybe you don't. But if you do it's with a sense of communal responsibility, peer pressure, and yes that's right something we don't have much of anymore... shame.
If we've already decided that the mask mandates are goners then if we still do want masking all that's left to try is a public relations campaign to get voluntary compliance, and by voluntary of course I mean what I just outlined which is relying on a sense of responsibility, peer pressure, and shame.
In attempting persuasion, the most powerful weapons are facts. Here's a fact. Pretty much everyone who has gotten covid and died of it got it from someone not wearing a mask. Maybe we need some generic public shaming campaigns like the ones by the Red Cross against "mask slackers" during the Spanish Flu pandemic in which that fact is pointed out, played up, and driven home. People aren't brave if they aren't wearing masks, they are sociopaths and collectively are mass murderers who are spreading the virus around and helping it to mutate. They are prolonging the pandemic and killing Americans including innocent children. Over 900,000 dead and just about every one of them was killed by someone not wearing a mask, often just like with most murders by someone they knew such as close friends and family members including those who supposedly loved them.
Maybe we could use some Starship Troopers level propaganda about fighting humanity's common enemy which is aptly enough, "the bug".
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