What is your reasoning for going maskless?
Mine is that a person I live with a lot has been going maskless. When I go out with them, I feel there’s no point in wearing a mask if they’re not going to. If they catch an illness we’re both going to regardless. I’ve been criticizing people in my head about no one wearing a mask, but I have to admit, now that I’ve been out without a mask I can see the temptation of things “feeling normal.”
I’m no longer masking, but Western Australia never had a lot of covid (this is hard to overstate - we had very, very little!), even less in the regional centre I live near (first confirmed case was 2022, and greater Bunbury is the second largest regional centre in the state) plus I’m a borderline hermit anyway. I’m considering taking it back up as a flu season practice but it really isn’t a big issue, here. I wouldn’t be masking over covid specifically, I would be masking to lower disease transmission more generally.