What is ignored is that while CV-19 is real and more virulent and dangerous than the typical flu, virtually no one in good, non-overweight, active-outdoor exercise health should or does need hospital care for it or dies from it. Unlike the Asian flu of 57-58 that saw the equivalent of approx. 200,000 Americans die as a result, today 42% of the pop is obese, more suffer from hypertension, and overall the nation is in worse health. But instead of blaming this, people look to the government as if it were God, and protest due to conditions that are really mostly due to their fault.
And yet, on our hikes in a non-mask mandate state deep in the woods we still come across about 20% mask wearers. And about 5% that make a significant effort to avoid any form of less-than-10-feet contact, to the point of running off the trail into the woods. It takes all my effort to not laugh out loud at these folks.