After reading comments on here and other SS articles, I can only say I'm extremely grateful to be basically in the middle of nowhere, very rural, with mostly common sense people around, old time values, no subways, no electric cars, no big buildings, pretty reasonable local governments, and no stores that were adamant about masks because we were having none of it. So, while so many that knew what was going on but still had to deal with so much going on so close to them, most of us escaped the extreme physical and mental stresses. My life actually didn't change except I couldn't find toilet paper and I said "no, thank you" a lot to those offering masks.