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 live in a deeply reactionary area where widespread masking was literally never a thing. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been harassed for wearing a mask, and at times I’ve gone without after calculating whether the increased protection from COVID is worth the increase in physical threats in certain CHUD-rich environments.
Luckily the angry reactions seem to have died down a bit now that “the pandemic is over.”