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?
Covid was one of the reasons Trump lost but Biden knew that after his inauguration following the science could be risky. Maybe - very roughly - around July was when Biden decided to follow the politics instead. Libs and independents were joining the GOP in wanting covid to be "over". ~1.1m dead and countless numbers of Americans (10,000,000s?) will suffer from long covid but Biden's ghoulish pivot proved to be an electoral winner.
Nothing will fundamentally change.