[iaHN]

I don't know about that. I received some negative comments recently for asking for evidence that wearing a mask, while outdoors, while socially distanced was ever effective.

People still have their egos and identities attached to this, seeing disagreement as a personal or political attack.

[samatman]

Well, it wasn't.

It's going to take awhile for people to go through all the stages of grief about how ineffective and intrusive many of the state interventions during this pandemic really were.

Judging by the number of young, healthy, vaccinated people I still see outdoors in masks, it's still denial for a lot of them.

[codezero]

What's the downside for those people who choose to wear a mask outdoors?

Perhaps they just came from somewhere indoors and want to have an extra barrier to protect them from unconsciously touching their face.

The reason doesn't really matter.