>But believing otherwise isn't "pseudoscience" or "religion", it's just a calculation error. I think you're assuming that these people who want mask compliance

>But believing otherwise isn't "pseudoscience" or "religion", it's just a calculation error. I think you're assuming that these people who want mask compliance at a 40' distance are doing the statistics like you are making the same conclusion about what behavior should be normal (a conclusion I disagree with). Some might be, but I doubt it's any non-trivial percentage. It's just a social norm now that's based not on science, but on a particular person's or group of persons' feelings. That is pseudoscience. Being "nice" is a, well, "nice" platitude but it isn't science. And after being lectured for more than a year about how "we need to follow the science" I find it more than a little annoying, but not unsurprising, that we're going to do otherwise.