There isn't a zero risk of any number of more dangerous things. This is no longer high risk, at all, for reasonably healthy people who are vaccinated and boosted. (those who aren't are foolish)
I'm willing to wait out the surge, but after that, I am hoping those in my community (bay area.... which doesn't have overcrowding of hospitals because of high vaccination rate) are ready to get rid of the masks and get on with normal life.
This is especially the case for countries which have to date managed to contain earlier Covid variants. Australia comes to mind.
Or China.
Masking to slow spread seems highly apposite.
Good times for advice like this for masking were a month ago and a year ago.
It is time to admit defeat and act like it’s too late for those kinds of growth mitigations.
In the US, a few (mostly east-coast) states have peaked. West, central, and mountain, and south, not so much.
Given limited services and long distances in rural states, masking would be highly advisible.
(Numerous highly-advisable actions have, of course, been soundly rejected.)
Both the practice and empirical data on its efficacy would be useful in parts of the world Omicron has not yet hit.
I do agree the advice would have been far more useful 4--6 weeks ago. Call your local Timelord.