a) People were also constantly taking their masks off to talk to people anyway (this is not me saying masks work, but it is me kind of implying people knew some

a) People were also constantly taking their masks off to talk to people anyway (this is not me saying masks work, but it is me kind of implying people knew something was off and they weren't actually so scared, for the most part) b) Covid (especially when you consider using PCR at high cycles to 'detect' it) relied on a model of asymptomatic transmission, when that was never proven