[chajin]

It boggles my mind that people continue with magical thinking that an improvised or other face mask will do anything to prevent a viral infection

I think that, among other things, it demonstrates that technology changes but humans stay the same. The masses are reacting to COVID-19 in the same ways, and in similar percentages, as the masses reacted to the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death and later iterations of bubonic plague. In the latter, the rich quarantined, the common people did what they were told regardless of whether it worked or not, fanatics rioted, and the few people who knew what worked but didn't always know why (e.g. Nostradamus using rose hips, HCO/zpak/zinc today) were ridiculed by the supposedly knowledgeable--and a significant minority decided to go all-out decadent because "we're all going to die anyway."

[RummyChick]

pretty interesting way of putting it
never really thought about it that way

28 year old CHaz who refuses to wear a mask and parties... who cant taste or smell and probably has COVID is sitting in his bathtub drinking whiskey. He cant taste it. He cant smell it. He isnt doing it for medicine effect

He is young, DGAF and rocks on.