By all means you should feel free to return to work.

Good point. For instance theatre over zoom is awful because the actors can’t interact. So a research project, where a creative solution is necessary may very well benefit from in person work. Still as you say that is a quite specific scenario.

“I work for the feds” and if they ask doing what I say “I’m sorry I can’t tell you” and then whisper “but you really should erase those pictures from your phone”

I’d be happy to listen to any well reasoned thought out argument about why. I spend more time working, less time distracted, and a full days worth of time per week not spent commuting, I spend more money at businesses in my local community. That three years later you haven’t figured out how to bolster your tax revenue is your fault and never has been in my job description. Restaurants will exist where there is demand and cease to exist where it isn’t. It has always been so. To demand I work in person, when there is no efficiency gained, purely for the purpose of me spending money to increase your tax revenue is unbelievably self serving and denigrating.