IMO you may be mistakenly attributing Western individualism here. If your friends are not wearing masks in some situation, you may choose to wear one and not fr

IMO you may be mistakenly attributing Western individualism here. If your friends are not wearing masks in some situation, you may choose to wear one and not fret about it, but not everywhere is like that. This is not about individual no-maskers, but rather a peculiar social norm to collectively forgo wearing masks in certain situations.