The people who want to keep masking: ‘It’s like an invisibility cloak.’

“Maybe it’s because I’m a New Yorker or maybe it’s because I always feel like I have to present my best self to the world, but it has been such a relief to feel anonymous,” she said. “It’s like having a force field around me that says ‘don’t see me’.”

Some people do really think like toddlers. Note that this has nothing to do with preventing infection at all. I knew this was going to be the case. Many people are are already looking for an excuse to withdraw from the world, to go as full hikikomori as possible, and the pandemic has granted that wish.

This is the choice quote, though, that I will highlight separately:

“I’m sick of being perceived.”

You don’t need to be a psychologist to realize that these people are fundamentally mentally (and physically) unhealthy.

I was kind of hoping for a recapitulation of the Roaring 20s. But we’re not going to get that, are we? It’s probably not in the cards. No, it’ll be the Boring 20s as people just keep on withdrawing and believing they can hide from the world.