People where I live were generally behaving normally for the last few months like how it was before the globalist pandemic started but after the recent fearmongering, I sadly see many more useless masks on faces and I can see that the fear is spreading.
Yesterday my leftist aunt just went full Eric Ding level of COVID hysteria by trying to force double masking on my COVID recovered grandparents.
I was stunned when I learned that she actually got the booster shot after she had a bad adverse reaction that caused her a serious eye problem after the original two shots.
The rational members of my family have had to tell her to fuck off and not to torment my grandparents with her hysteria.
The sad truth is that the WEF globalists have already fully succeeded with their Great Reset plans. They have destroyed normality.
I am feeling more blackpilled than ever.
I can give you my perspective.
I live with older family members, who are both highly susceptible to covid. And I'm young, but I'm still in several risk categories. We got the grandmother vaccinated with the Chinese vaccine (conventional vaccine, not weird mRNA bullshit) because she's very old, in her mid 90s, and likely doesn't have to worry about long-term effects (maybe it's cruel to say, but it's true).
Meanwhile, we didn't get the vaccine because it's still a pretty risky proposition and instead of the vaccine, we can just, instead, be careful.
We're not afraid, there's no fear, there's no obedience, there's no compliance. There's only some caution. Me and my family wear a mask because from what we've looked into, it filters out some 10% of the particles that carry the virus. A 10% reduced chance of one of my family members dying is worth it for a bit of inconvenience. We don't wear a mask as a fashion accessory or a talisman, we treat it as the biohazard that it is. We also don't care what other people do, we do what we think is best for ourselves according to the research we've done.
When the virus evolves to be less lethal, when herd immunity (or some level of equilibrium) is reached, or when years of research are done on a conventional vaccine (most likely the Chinese one), I look forward to living 100% normally - although admittedly, I don't actually live any differently except that I wear a mask in public transit (never outside) and only go somewhere if there's an actual reason to.
It's a 10% reduction of particles that pass through the material which is almost none of them. Large droplets may be blocked by the mask but smaller droplets and aerosols will just flow around it. I wear glasses so every time I couldn't see shit because all the condensation on my glasses it was a reminder that the mask wasn't doing shit. Even if it did filter 10% that doesn't mean a linear reduction because there's no reason to think the relationship is linear. The reduction would depend on how often you are in the narrow band where there's enough viral particles to infect you but not slightly more than enough viral particles to infect you.