Those are all enclosed spaces that cannot be avoided featuring dramatically higher concentrations. They stopped the restrictions where they did because the goal was achieved. Going further is just prohibition, which has a long history of causing widespread societal ill everywhere it is tried, including black markets and organized crime, with virtually every drug or substance. We already won this public health victory; we can take the win without being ‘sore winners’.
ETA:
I realized the underlying point bears calling out specifically, which is this: in the real world, things are too complicated for simple “perfect” solutions to work. There are almost always unintended secondary effects that make absolute solutions to one problem to get rid of, for example, that last 5-10% of outdoor smokers, we can create a bunch of other problems, some of which are bigger, worse, and harder to deal with than just letting those last few poor addicts smoke out in the freezing rain or whatever the weather may be.
Those are all enclosed spaces that cannot be avoided featuring dramatically higher concentrations. They stopped the restrictions where they did because the goal was achieved. Going further is just prohibition, which has a long history of causing widespread societal ill everywhere it is tried, including black markets and organized crime, with virtually every drug or substance. We already won this public health victory; we can take the win without being ‘sore winners’.
ETA:
I realized the underlying point bears calling out specifically, which is this: in the real world, things are too complicated for simple “perfect” solutions to work. There are almost always unintended secondary effects that make absolute solutions to one problem to get rid of, for example, that last 5-10% of outdoor smokers, we can create a bunch of other problems, some of which are bigger, worse, and harder to deal with than just letting those last few poor addicts smoke out in the freezing rain or whatever the weather may be.