Now I have a real dilemma on my hands

[Wingus Dingus]

20. So few people in my part of the country wear masks anymore, that

my wearing of a mask inside a store or other large public space won't reduce the risk to other people at all. I'd be almost the only one in a mask walking through a collective Delta cloud from everyone else. A fart in a hurricane, as to effect. It MIGHT keep me from getting it, but I'm reading that an N-95 is probably necessary because of the sheer virus-particle abundance from even asymptomatic/vaccinated people, and I don't happen to have those. Wearing an N-95 in public all the time is ratcheting things up to a level I'm not prepared to do unless we're talking higher death tolls. On a plane or other small enclosed space for hours, though, I would want an N-95.

That said, if the situation does become more dire in terms of increasing deaths and hospitalizations among the vaccinated or among children, I will take care to mask up in public, but I would expect mask mandates to be announced anyway in my area.