Yes, hvert, we do some things not because it's completely safe, but because we may need to take on some risk, if we want to maintain our sanity. Your art class is a calculated risk. The governments role through the CDC is going to evolve away from giving us stern directives on what to do and not do. It will move more toward helping us appreciate risk and using our own risk analysis to make decisions. Risks should not be exaggerated, but neither should we blow off the risk that is inherent in all social contact.

A thing that really concerns me is the longterm damage to lung tissue that this virus seems to do. They are finding evidence that a large number of COVID survivors have that damage. Imagine not smoking all your life and then, after a bout of COVID, finding out that your lungs are as messed up as if you had been a heavy smoker for years. You may not have died of COVID, but your life expectancy is probably shortened. Also your stamina probably never goes back to what it was, which diminishes the quality of life you'll experience, after a bout of COVID. I don't think they are highlighting those realities enough.