By the time mask mandates in various settings ended, it was not uncommon to see folk walking around NYC or sitting on a subway train in the same baggy blue they'd been given in March 2020…
Elastics so worn out that the flimsy piece of fabric wouldn't even serve as jock support for a long beard.
But tell me again how the only reason folk refuse to wear masks now is that cloth masks were too hard to breathe through…
And not that they were only wearing masks then due to rules & social pressure.