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?
In countries like Japan masking up was completely normal for years and years before Covid. It was done as a basic courtesy toward your fellow human beings, you know, not wanting your germs making other people sick. According to a video I once saw in Japanese class, people also use masks in public for other reasons, like just wanting to hide your face because you feel like it
Unfortunately Westerners are mostly selfish little piggies that start squealing and shitting themselves when you try to corral them to do anything collectively
I think this is the best answer. Every country masks better than the USA because this country was founded on individualism. Masks are a collective effort to keep people safe. Neither libs nor chuds care about masks at this point because they (believe) they have sufficient wealth to protect themselves from covid, while covid itself continues to devastate more vulnerable people whom they view as a drag on their finances.
I think the fact that Asian countries were heavily masking and China doing a proper lockdown also made Americans inherently think all these things were bad and for "brainwashed sheep'