not what I'm saying at all. Just that my first response is to go look at data and see if the announcement is born out by science.
in this case, it's very fuzzy due to the risk of variants. Normally I say that risk of variants is low, but this virus has shown an incredible ability to mutate in ways that increase infectivity. Virus tend to slowly evolve the ability to infect humans, but this one came out of the gate as the most infectious version we've ever seen. And since then it's been mutating left and right. I don't think it's reasonable to say that the risk of variants is low enough and the vaccination rate is high enough to forego masks.
I think that the CDC is saying this because they think it will increase vaccinations, which it might marginally accomplish, but it's not a good exchange considering the number of people who will take this announcement as "It's over, let's share glasses and lick door knobs".
tldr; I agree with
@Splinty and the graph, but I think the vaccination rate should be much higher for the current transmission rate before dropping indoor or large group mask requirements.