Maybe some of y'all aren't in the same sort of political area I'm in... The handwavium around here is extreme. There's a restaurant near me which still MANDATES (they love that word...) that you wear a mask from the door to your table, but then you're perfectly okay... The tame essentials wear their masks proudly. I went in a cell phone store the other day to inquire about something - the kid, wearing a chin mask, was downright rude when he told me that I had to go out and put on a mask to spend money there.
Chin mask. Sigh.
The local media seems to love case counts. Never mind that 16 people died WITH the 'rona here (with no release about demographics...) in the city since November 1 - it's the rising number of CASES!
I have a cow orker who proclaims that if he catches it, he's going to die (and he's had it once already, but natch...). And he uses it as an excuse to be rude to anyone who doesn't fit his definition of safe (young, female, not tweaking,,, much...) to tell them to "back off!" He also refuses to install batteries, headlights, and so on. Maybe he'll catch something. And he calls me an "old man" while I'm carrying one out to a customer car...
The hipsters love their masks. It shows that they care. We've also got a lot of low-info folks around here. They believe everything they see on television.
