Like I keep saying, there is also masking messaging still going on. It allows the anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-reason folks a chance to complain about something.
Therefore it is NOT a clear message.
The message should be, and should have been since last January-- get vaccinated and you don't have to do any of the other stuff.
I get ya. But the problem with the "carrot and stick" approach is that nobody enforces the stick.
Here in Orange County, the official rule is that vaccinated people can go about their business, at stores, restaurants, workplaces, etc, without a mask and those who are unvaccinated must be masked. It's not enforced. Nobody complains, though. The vaccinated are just happy they don't have to wear masks. The unvaccinated aren't wearing masks and aren't going to complain that it's not being enforced on them. So the policy is stupid because it's not enforced, nobody gets the "stick", so there's no "carrot" as incentive to actually get vaxxed.
The alternate is going on in LA County. Because it wasn't being enforced, they created rules that basically said you can't engage in civil society if you're unvaccinated. Not "if you go into a restaurant you have to wear a mask", but "you can't go into a restaurant unless you prove your vax status." So everyone has to walk around "showing their papers" just to go into a store, restaurant, etc, and then they STILL make you wear a mask. So because they can't enforce the "stick" without draconian measures, there's no "carrot".
So I get the message, and that's the message we have in Orange County... Get the vax, and you don't have to wear the mask. And people said "I'm not getting the vax, and I'm not going to wear a mask, because nobody will make me."