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I don't have any way to judge even on a local level, but my gut tells me it's herd behavior. If only 1 in 10 or 1 in 20 people wear masks at the supermarket, people unconsciously start thinking "Oh, I guess it's safe not to mask any more." And then that behavior becomes the general standard, at least until people start dying in droves again. This is greatly aggravated by medical personnel dropping masks too. But I think we're more like lemmings than we imagine. Homo stupidus.