These people strike me as the kind that still wear a mask when they’re driving alone in their car.
For about two weeks I would have been pretty gung-ho to stop the virus in every p0ossible way. But then I started seeing the maskies---- people walking alone, in the sunshine, 100 yards from anyone except those in cars like me, with their heads down and afraiid to look sideways, wearing their masks. Then it was all the people driving, alone, and wearing their masks.
I had it pretty good, hardly ever needed to wear a mask, and never for more than an hour.
I realized from the start that there were no actual scientific studies done about the effectiveness and proper hygeine of masks, it was all borrowed theory from hospital traditions and a few marginally scientific studies. But I have lived in Asia and saw people wearing masks as a standard personal mode. People spit a lot on sidewalks, crap in every possible place, piss on the walls or squat on gutters. And the crowds are petty thick. But there are still no actual scientific studies or analyses that show the benefits. A few epidemiologists have even come up with a study, from broad data sets like mandate areas, non-mandate areas, where they found no benefit.
We drive cars with air cleaners, but we don't bring the air cleaners indoors and set them on the dresser or kitchen counter, where the daily harvest can rub off or float off air conditioning flows.
Like truth in any war, common sense goes out of fashion with any government management.