Masks as Virtue Signaling
I want to thank David Hogg for this remarkably honest explanation for why he wears a mask when it is completely unneeded.
While others may not be doing it strictly to avoid looking Conservative, I do think that many young people wear them because they don't want to be mistaken as somehow anti-social or a Neanderthal.
When I am pressured to put a mask on despite having been fully vaccinated 8 weeks ago, I feel like I am signaling as well -- I am signaling that I am a rube who is meekly knuckling under to an irrational state. It is certainly an eye-opener to see so many of the supposed members of the counter-culture marching in lockstep with state authority.
