Do you think there is any real substantive reason as to why people opposed masks so greatly? Was it a cultural issue? Was it a public health education issue? I was just thinking back to the heights of COVID and I don’t understand exactly the weirdly difficult issue with masks and public life. It was really odd that such a simple health tool was so opposed. I am not talking about the disease or vaccine but the act of wearing a mask. What was that such a point of contention?
I don’t think I ever heard a real reason why people were bugging out about them, was real just as simple as the minor inconvenience? The disruption of our already too busy lives were we all have so little power or control and this just another thing on top of that?
What do y’all think? Do you still mask up?
I think it was just the perfect catalyst for reactionary thinking. They've been doing this for ages by calling public health laws "nanny state intervention", complaining about health guidelines that don't even require you to do anything, making fun of people who make personal choices with an eye towards living longer and more comfortably, etc. There was the snafu with Fauci in the early days of COVID, and frankly he should have resigned when it became apparent how badly he fucked up, but IMO the seeds for health guideline rejection were all planted in the American Reactionary subconscious for decades and there was basically no other outcome.