I’ve seen firsthand numerous people walking around 60 meters from anyone wearing tightly fitting N95s and face shields. I’ve seen several instances firsthand, not just on Reddit, of people putting surgical masks on their car AC vents.

Pardon me if I detect a mass psychosis for an illness that almost assuredly will be troublesome, but overall less of a discomfort than draconian lockdown and so forth. And overall will (statistically) kill almost no one who contracts it.

Yes, cue the “but 900,000 people”, and I’ll cue the litany of unforeseen consequences that will reduce life expectancy even further.

But I’m pretty sure there is some mass psychology applied to our response to covid, and it’s generally overblown when we involve mass psychology. Just ask Charles Mackay.