yes well it's not like there haven't been public health campaigns for decades asking people to wash their hands and not cough on each other and stay home when sick if possible... and people ignored them

It took a pandemic where people were basically a) scared for their lives and b) threatened with bylaw and legal ramifications, to actually get them to respond to civic health concerns and comply.

I was 'critical infrastructure' and didn't stay home. Work trucks kept rolling. I wasn't scared. I didn't 'voluntarily' comply with operation warp speed.

Visits to mine sites were glorious because MSHA didn't promote the OSHA theatrics. My child and I were invited to the yearly pig roast for workers and family at one mine, and it was awesome. We then drove back to big city and unfortunately went to grocery store seemingly in a different world of masked gloved stink-eye scared shoppers wiping down their soup cans.

... and.... I don't care?

Yeah masking was definitely not the reason. It was people staying home.