Agree 94%. And same with my friends and family. They got it.

But let me give you an example of what I'm talking about. My friends knew that I did not wear masks and I told them I wouldn't be wearing one when we met up for lunch. It made them uncomfortable...I could feel it and see it in their eyes. I asked them when we sat down if they thought they could walk the 20 steps to the door without a masks after we were done.

So I paid for lunch and they dutifully put on their masks as soon as they stood up. I gave them shit about it, but they kept them glued on.

I was simply asking for small resistance. None of them could muster the courage to walk 20 feet, after we were finished and I PAID!

I mean seriously what would happen to then at that point? It represented no meaningful risk. They had succumb to apathy, despite hating the masks, because they had accepted there was nothing they could do...that it was senseless to resist

We needed a lot small resistors to make these mandates unenforceable or such a pain in the ass that they were de facto optional.

They were scared. Moreover they had resigned to doing it indefinitely.

That is much more scary than the cult fanatics imo