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I'm not a huge fan of mass cultures approach to pandemic management.
I don't think most people care. Not about this; not about anything. They literally dont know how. Just totally sloppified fucking p-zombie automatons functioning entirely at the level of social pressure and first impression instinct and a shallow identity derived from that. It sucks it's alienating and it's awful. I find it makes losing these people¹ to their own stupidity worryingly easy on the heart.
I don't know what your big issues are.
But you can't live in a world alone. So back-end support, which is at least as important as and more broadly applicable than any situation where you might be gassed in a crowd of non-maskers, must still be done yo make a better world.
I'm of the opinion that the world gets made by the people who show up. For whatever reason, in whatever context. To the police riot the jitsi meeting the covert action or the friend group; it gets made by the people who show up. I don't know what you're doing to make people suck less, not gonna ask. Just asking that you're doing something.
¹to yhe extent that they are