Oddbean new post about login | logout Oh yeah totally. I doubt they were actually scared. Just a petty authoritarian who felt their whims were more important than all of our freedoms.
Or rather, people that were captured by the politicized nature of masking up plus "all their friends are talking about it on social media". Flicking behaviour.
Flocking*
You couldn't do anything about the virus and (perhaps) dare not do anything about the lockdowns. Yelling at people about masks was the easiest way for a lot of people to exert a degree of control that had been lost in their own lives. I pity these fools who take responsibility for everything except their own behavior.
It's like the inverted Jesus syndrome: Trying to take responsibility for the fate of the world, but by cussing and cursing at people.