I'm going to spend the day making masks, again. Annoyance at anti-maskers won't change them, so I'm trying to understand where they are coming from and why masking has been, for me, pretty easy to get used to.

Culture shock is hard. I've lived in 4 countries long-term, and each move was painful. In a new place, some people spend their time chatting with people from "home," keeping up with "home"town news. I prefer to throw myself into the new place, find what I enjoy, avoid nostalgia.

Covid world is a new country. We've been migrated without warning. We live in a place with strange customs. Six months ago no one would have guessed that this was the USA: how we dress (masks), queue (6 ft gap), travel (just don't), work, vote...It's legit culture shock.

My overwhelmingly immigrant neighborhood went from almost no masks to 95%+ masked in just a couple weeks; I saw no signs of stress. Did the migration experience prepare people for the move to Covid world?

Maybe deep down, anti-mask resistance is just discomfort with change. Many people sacrifice pleasure for stability. And now, through no fault of their own, here they are. In that case, the best response might be pretty simple. Get over it! https://twitter.com/1fastdog/status/1263977073087037442