I think it's a little premature to be spiking the football and pouring Gatorade on the head coach. The recent trends are highly encouraging, but health experts aren't thrilled about the nation plateauing at 60k daily cases. Only time will tell if we'll dodge a 4th wave.
I agree with you in principle, but to play Devil's advocate, hasn't Florida been pretty lax about social distancing for months now? Shouldn't their infections and mortality be noticeably higher compared to other populous states if public health policy was the dominant factor? As mentioned above, Austiners will be pretty good about mask-wearing, mandate or no mandate. While Gov. Abbott is being a dumb ass in perpetuating masking as a culture war issue, he might get lucky as Ron DeSantis has been.