Most of the spread are private gatherings of family and friends and in places where people neither wear a mask nor socially distance. I think a mask is meaning

Most of the spread are private gatherings of family and friends and in places where people neither wear a mask nor socially distance. I think a mask is meaningless walking outside on the sidewalk; if virus particles survive past six feet and through wind then we have bigger problems ; no, the mask mandate makes sense in stores, workplace hallways and bathrooms, hair salons and stuff like that. It's complex to tell people to wear a mask in specific situations so the authorities say to wear it all the time, which feels oppressive. It's complex to tell people not to hoard things so we lied and told the public masks weren't recommended until June. Now the gloves thing is a mystery to me. Do people not have control over their hands? The virus doesn't enter the hands, it enters the face-holes, but the hands have to be close to the face-holes to enter, where they bind to receptors in the airways. The virus-facehole transit route exists even if you wear gloves. A few months back I saw someone sitting outside, on a park bench, mask on chin while they ate a sandwich -- with their gloves. Yeah, it can be the case that people are dumb-dumbs AND our institutions are awful at messaging strategy.