If it's cold out, 30f this am., and I'm shopping, I may not bother to remove it if I'm driving just a few minutes.
I chatted football across the parking lot with a fellow, then masked as per Imperial Whim, for the grocery store. ( team jacket Xmas present provokes comment but I haven't watched a game yet. So I just fake it with the Traditional Bills Fan despairing optimism ... )
Next stop was 5 minutes away tops, so I had a nice warm face with moist, my own germs laden air, a pleasant contrast to freezing dry outside.
So it may not be mindless compliance, or ideological purity, or fearful paranoia, or self righteous display.
It might be simple laziness and even comfort seeking.
As I tell a vocally anti-mask friend. I wear one so the store clerks don't think I'm a Karen. I wear camo so if I need to I can get closer to a tyrant. And I wear one to tweak his ( figurative ) nose on the subject.
By all means, mock tyranny! But all that glitters is not fools gold.
Well put, my friend. Gotta remember the "Assume" mantra, no? Main thing I hate about masks is how they screw with my glasses. First, they're liable to fog up everything. Then, they're garonteed to get hung up behind my ears when I take them off. (Wire behind the ear.)
Brad, first time my biker arse walked inta the bank with a hoodie and a mask,,, that was,,, weird, try that in a city and they be pointing a weapon at ya not to long ago, ask me how I know! lol
OK... many of you have probably seen this already. Not a meme... but, to me it's almost as important to the holiday as Alice's Restaurant is to Thanksgiving. Do enjoy... and, pay close attention to the VERY beginning. The following video will work best at your fave holiday gathering, around a big screen smart teevee... ideally with the GOOD 'nog going on!!!