and cases were at all time lows. The vaccines were effective in all aspects vs previous strains.

Maybe the CDC should have had more foresight as they saw Delta growing in India? It was inevitably going to end up here and spread rapidly. But the flip side is that most Americans were mad and clamoring/bitching for mask mandates to go away. LOL @ telling Americans to "keep the masks on because there's a strain in India that is going to wreak havoc here in two months."

But yeah, science. The virus mutated and now we have to adapt. That's the only thing that should matter.

Personally I never took the mask off. But I've learned that I'm in the minority with that.