I am US and my answer to a bunch of these is currently "it depends"
Transit: I think if I had previously been depending on transit for commute, after a year of this I would have figured something else out by now. I would not currently switch to a job that requires a public transit commute. I probably would be willing to do it for a one-time thing if I knew it wasn't going to be during a crowded time of day, but I'm trying to think of any leisure things that I would usually take transit for that I'd be currently willing to do, and can't think of any (maybe if someone in the city wanted to meetup for something outdoors in a completely un-parkable part of the city?) I probably would be willing to take transit rather than drive to a protest in DC if I felt strongly enough about whatever was being protested. Evidence seems to be that transit is way lower risk than you'd think for covid because it does actually have very good ventilation generally, but being crammed into a standing-room-only bus or train car twice a day still seems like a bad idea (also I, and several people I know, had the experience earlier this summer before Delta got bad of doing something a little bit riskier - and catching a bad non-Covid cold immediately, since we haven't been exposed to anything for a year, and I'd like to avoid that happening again too.)
I am still ok with grocery shopping, etc. The stores around here are spaced out enough, and people are good enough about masks and distance, that I'm probably at less risk than going to work ('is it riskier than my work' is my general benchmark since work reopened. Work is riskier than I'd prefer, but I guess if I'm doing that much for mammon I'm willing to do it for fun too.) I am kind of wibbling about less-vital purchases - I'm still in the middle of a move/renovation so there's a lot of stuff that's like, I sort of need, but not super need? Last weekend I still felt okay about going to those stores to shop around, I may change my mind by next weekend.
I am still fine with doing most things outdoors. Old covid, there was pretty strong evidence that there was basically no outdoor transmission. Delta there's a bit more risk but I think outdoors + masks + at least some distancing is probably fine. I still wouldn't go to anything outdoors where large crowds will be pressed closely together (except maybe a super vital political protest, but fingers crossed we will have fewer of those here for a little while.)
I have a small number of friends that I have been semi-bubbled with for awhile; we kind of negotiate every time how we feel about risk; right now I have the highest risk of infection and lowest risk of bad outcome in the group, so I have been mostly letting them set the standard. I would be willing to visit them inside/masked if they felt comfortable. Probably not anybody outside that tiny bubble, though.
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Transit: I think if I had previously been depending on transit for commute, after a year of this I would have figured something else out by now. I would not currently switch to a job that requires a public transit commute. I probably would be willing to do it for a one-time thing if I knew it wasn't going to be during a crowded time of day, but I'm trying to think of any leisure things that I would usually take transit for that I'd be currently willing to do, and can't think of any (maybe if someone in the city wanted to meetup for something outdoors in a completely un-parkable part of the city?) I probably would be willing to take transit rather than drive to a protest in DC if I felt strongly enough about whatever was being protested. Evidence seems to be that transit is way lower risk than you'd think for covid because it does actually have very good ventilation generally, but being crammed into a standing-room-only bus or train car twice a day still seems like a bad idea (also I, and several people I know, had the experience earlier this summer before Delta got bad of doing something a little bit riskier - and catching a bad non-Covid cold immediately, since we haven't been exposed to anything for a year, and I'd like to avoid that happening again too.)
I am still ok with grocery shopping, etc. The stores around here are spaced out enough, and people are good enough about masks and distance, that I'm probably at less risk than going to work ('is it riskier than my work' is my general benchmark since work reopened. Work is riskier than I'd prefer, but I guess if I'm doing that much for mammon I'm willing to do it for fun too.) I am kind of wibbling about less-vital purchases - I'm still in the middle of a move/renovation so there's a lot of stuff that's like, I sort of need, but not super need? Last weekend I still felt okay about going to those stores to shop around, I may change my mind by next weekend.
I am still fine with doing most things outdoors. Old covid, there was pretty strong evidence that there was basically no outdoor transmission. Delta there's a bit more risk but I think outdoors + masks + at least some distancing is probably fine. I still wouldn't go to anything outdoors where large crowds will be pressed closely together (except maybe a super vital political protest, but fingers crossed we will have fewer of those here for a little while.)
I have a small number of friends that I have been semi-bubbled with for awhile; we kind of negotiate every time how we feel about risk; right now I have the highest risk of infection and lowest risk of bad outcome in the group, so I have been mostly letting them set the standard. I would be willing to visit them inside/masked if they felt comfortable. Probably not anybody outside that tiny bubble, though.