[DouglasKC]

I think a lot of younger people love wearing those stupid things. How else can you explain a 22 year old running alone in a park with one on? Do they crave carbon dioxide?

Spot on. There as an extremely popular online game called "Fortnite", aimed at pre-teens and teens, that was huge up until a year or two ago. Most of the characters, or avatars, wore some type of mask. This was LONG before COVID. So they got conditioned to wear masks. That's part of the reason why they took to is so easily.

[toddausauras]

Very interesting and disturbing about the fortnite conditioning.