To me, putting on a mask is acknowledging of a high risk environment, like using a mass transportation during a pandemic. Airborne virus spread fast in crowded environment with limited ventilation, and if one has to be in such environment then doing anything to limit spread is good. The problem is when people started to use masks in order to allow themselves to be in an high risk environments.

For my perspective here in Sweden, not much has changed from last time during the holidays and this year. People still seem to want something to allow them go into high risk environment, like Christmas parties, weddings, mass transportation travel, and shopping during rush hours. To me it the same people who went to those last year with masks that goes to those things this year with vaccines. Thankfully vaccines is at least more effective and thus the outcome seem less worse this year for the health care system.