Aside from those with medical conditions that are impacted by a mask, which is basically less than 1% of the population, how is it not easy?
Being mad about wearing a mask is such fake mad. It's Karen type shit.
I think so many feel like they are being played, like lab rats being poked, by the mask medical experts / intelligentsia.
First from people like Fauci/ Birx / WHO / CDC: "masks don't work. Don't wear them". Then it shifted to "masks work. Always wear them." Then admission by any true scientist that most masks or face coverings absolutely can't stop the small microns from passing through the mask. All the masks really can stop is if someone has liquid spit or saliva leaving your mouth or nose.
And then, its been proven to be only transmittable by adult humans with symptoms. Not spreadable by kids or by asymptomatic adults.
Now - we're back to "wear two masks or maybe three - we'll update you on the correct number, based on how we feel week to week. Science! "
Was it Fauci or CDC or WHO who told Biden to say recently "nothing we do can stop the trajectory of the virus". Viruses gonna virus - which is the most accurate, scientific thing these "experts" have said yet.
They see these same experts blatantly and openly defy their own rules and mandates on mask wearing and lockdowns - which is so hypocritical - and again leads to people thinking they are owned sheep, with rules applying to them, but not to their master overlords.
I think people would be more willing to wear the masks if they knew there was a defined end in sight. Once this passes, then we can go back to mask free. Now the "experts" are saying, "nope. Continue to wear masks indefinitely - even if you've had COVID, recovered, and built up immunity. Even if you've had two doses of the vaccine. Enjoy - masks now, masks FOREVER MFERS!!!!" WTF?!
This control game, not based in science, but seemingly to many- is based in control, dehumanization, submission of animals, sheep - in their experiment - is what makes people defiant I think.
Obviously the virus is real. Nothing in any of the data in any state showing when mask mandates have gone in place - with even 95+% mask wearing compliance, have made a difference. In our state of MN, we have super high mask wearing compliance. The COVID cases spiked upward well after mandates were in place. Closely following nationwide second outbreak pattern, with no variation due to high mask wearing. Wearing the masks did nothing to mitigate, or reduce the spike, compared to more open, mask free states. MN over-tested in the state, and used a way too high cycle count in testing, leading to extremely high false positives, but recently that has been rectified - a story for a different day.
Is the 90% capacity higher than normal? I've seen data and stories saying hospitals need to be at 85-95% of capacity to make money. I don't think the 90% of capacity is such a problem. Nationwide, hospitalizations and deaths
from (not "with") COVID have plummeted.
Again - I think you'd see mask wearing by the ones who don't wear them - if there were some clearer proof/ statistical evidence that they work and make a difference in reducing serious cases (there isn't) - and if the authorities could give a defined measure - if reached - where we could go back to normal, mask free (they won't).
FYI - by basically every measure, the more populous, older inhabitants in open FL / DeSantis have fared better then locked down, masked up, fkd up NY under Cuomo's regime.