I think they are doing much more than that.
They are testing, probing, and seeing what they can get away it.
And the answer to that is: quite a lot.
By and large, the vast, vast majority of Americans have bought every media hype and lie, and have turned into a bunch of slave mask wearing sheep.
The COVID "new normal" is Xanadu for fascist liberals and germaphobes.
Funny you should post this, traveling the roads I see these people with masks on windows rolled up, and we already know what news programs they watch and who they listen to. Makes it easy on us we know who they are