Did it change your dad? Just out of curiosity.

I am interested, but ultimately it's irrelevant, because our subjective experiences don't really hold a candle to the entire "anti mask" movement, the culture you're describing here, and slightly different but akin to that cultural aspect, the idea of "hustling" to chase fortune.

And that's just the philosophy of it. There's also the millions that most certainly just don't understand shit about germs, mechanisms of how illness spreads, etc.