I think a lot of people subconsciously recognized that the logic of masking, once popularized, would mean masking for the rest of your life, and chose no on that basis.

— Misha – Visiting the bay area Nov 19 – Jan 3 (@drethelin) November 14, 2022

Indeed. Almost no one wants that, the Covidians aside (hopfully far aside). If those doofs hadn’t attempted to inaugurate perpetual masking regular people would be a lot more amenable to the idea of masking sometimes.

It was a slippery slope and recognized as such by enough folks. We resisted, as we should have.