Some people do. Around me it felt like it was a very quick way to signal that you weren't a fucking crazy person at the start of the pandemic, and then it becam

Some people do. Around me it felt like it was a very quick way to signal that you weren't a fucking crazy person at the start of the pandemic, and then it became political (jfc), and kept on being a social signal. If I had to guess though I'd say most people mask up out of pragmatism, its kind of insane that our previous practice was to just pretend we weren't sick hard enough that we stopped being infectious.