At this point seeing mask usage e.g. outdoors on a hiking trail is a little disturbing, because at this point people are thinking they are fighting the good fig

At this point seeing mask usage e.g. outdoors on a hiking trail is a little disturbing, because at this point people are thinking they are fighting the good fight but are now on the other side of the evidence (which says you are pretty safe outdoors or in a big room or while merely interacting briefly in passing with people, as one does with strangers in public). I wonder what the messaging will be given that this supposedly "scientifically minded" mask wearing subset of the population is no longer listening to the science. I hope this doesn't lead to weakened immunity overall in the population. If you wear a mask every time you go out into the world, that doesn't give you much of a chance to build up acquired immunity to all the other bugs that are out there. There are stories from the early 1900s of native americans coming out of the woods and joining western society. They of course have spent decades in isolation versus just two years, but that's enough for them to end up perennially sick and in poor health when they were actually integrated into western society, and eventually die young of common disease. A lack of acquired immunity is what killed Ishi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi