I am in Houston and there are no mandates or rules or anything requiring masks, anywhere at all. Yet there is a subset of the population, especially minorities, but not exclusively, who can’t help themselves but walk around with a muzzle all the time. Especially at the supermarket for some reason.

I cannot understand why anyone would willingly subject themselves to it, especially when it’s quite clear that it makes no difference at all to transmission. Same as for the extremely poor cost-benefit of the shots.

The only answer I can come up with is security blanket / talisman / virtue signaling, all irrational. There is no rational reason to keep doing this at all.