I still wear a mask when I go to the mall or take the bus.
I usually don’t see too many others who do.
Sometimes it turns out the others I see wearing a mask in public are actually sick, they just don’t get paid time off.
Many sick people, it seems, just don’t want to change their plans.
But people act like me masking as a preventive public health measure is weird.
Here is a better explanation for why I wear a mask in public than I could possibly write myself. “Wanting to avoid a virus that can cause death and disability is not a mental illness.”
Another very good piece: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peoples-exclusion-from-indoor
Wearing a mask in public should more properly considered a civic duty and/or just good manners, but we talk about civic duties feels extremely out of fashion these days.