| | | Eric, If you were "immune compromised" you would be a fool not to wear a good mask in public. It's not just "immune-compromised," or else we would have seen more people in the West wearing masks before the pandemic.
Instead, it's all about cultural norms and how the pandemic shifted them.
Before the pandemic, if you saw someone wearing a mask in public, you would tend to assume that the mask-wearer is sick and is a walking CDC-case, and thus you would keep your distance from the supposedly infectious person.
(Note that this is very different from how mask-wearers in Asia are seen. There, many people wear masks all the time for various reasons, whether it be air quality issues, or a courtesy because they're suffering from a common cold, etc.)
After the pandemic, wearing a mask in the West isn't so taboo anymore, EXCEPT among the crazy anti-maskers who view the mask the same way they view a Nazi swastika.
And that group of crazies includes our resident smooth-brained mini-golfer who thinks masks are nothing but one great big lie spread over the course of decades of modern medicine.
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