No you didn't take the vaccine, but here's a question, what is something you may have fallen for in the past? The vaccine is interesting because for those of us who didn't take it, we saw a radical departure between reality and what was being reported by the media, even before the vaccine was available.

I rarely listened to news even before the pandemic, because I wrote a lot of it off as "infotainment." But one time, during the pandemic I took my car in for emissions related repairs. While sitting there in the shop I could hear WSB being broadcasted. It was almost comedic how "fear-infused" the news was. There were PSA's on masks (this was before the vaccine was released) as well as social distancing, hand washing, reports on school closures, discussions and news items on death counts. Meanwhile, the people that I knew who died "with Covid" were in their seventies, had COPD or other pre-existing conditions, or they were obese. I knew of at least three people of who died partly because of Covid over the last three years. The way it was spoken of on the news, it should have been stacks of bodies, vacated houses marked in chalk to warn other people that it was a plague house.

The fact that people were showing up at fast food restaurants to work, do instacart, and other delivery jobs showed us that a lot of the pandemic, even then, was theater. We were meant to stay at home, watch the pandemic online or TV, because as soon as you went out into the world, the truth would become immediately apparent. "The emperor has no sniffles."

I think one reason for the mask was that it continued to broadcast the narrative. Even normal issn't normal if you place a mask on it. So with that in mind, I see wearing a mask alone in a car as okay, because it's all theater. It's like watching Jason from Friday the 13th behind he wheel of car or a woman dressed as a witch riding a moped. Perfectly acceptable behavior on a night where we pretend to be someone else.