You say you’re genuinely curious, but it feels like you’re being intentionally dense here, you’re too smart to not get this.
No I think I just don't wear them all that much and genuinely don't see them as a burden. I wear it to the grocery store or to a restaurant outside maybe once a week or when I carpool my kids and their friends to things. Obviously people that don't live in the coastal elite bubbles are out and about a lot more and in indoor social situations that I haven't really experienced.
like I'm pretty sure the only time I've worn a mask for more than 30 minutes uninterrupted was on flights to and from Hawaii.
Seemed like a minor price to pay and I'd gladly do it on every flight to Hawaii for the rest of my life, but I might have a different perspective if I was in an office interacting with people face-to-face every day.
Like, that is a pretty easy way to have it tbh, I've flown a lot towards the end of the year, it sucked, worth it, but sucked. Same with when we are now very close to everyone having to return to the office it sucked during that period of 4 months being there having to remember to wear it the second you left your desk to take a piss, or talk to a coworker, I "get" it but it was a pain. I am milking staying at home almost exclusively at this point because having to wear it is a pain in the ass if you are doing like basic crap like going to talk to someone. There are some things worth it, but doing it all the time and well after we are "over" this seems like rank overkill and just seems post apocalyptic and unnatural.
Then I think of my mom, who works with kids day in and day out, and has to wear it like 8 hours a day straight, what a drag.
IMO I am totally fine with it for doing it like how Asian countries thought of it before this pandemic of protecting others if you are sick, or in general if you are packed together like sardines in a plane, but agree with a lot here, you lose so much social cues and whatnot with a mask. I am already isolated, with a mask I feel even more distant from people, and this is coming from a person who for the most part enjoys his alone time. At some point, very soon, the crisis will be over, and the sacrificing will need to stop, we're not quite there, but I dream of when it is.