To the extent most people complied it was simply convenience and a quick short-term risk benefit analysis. Most people decided wearing a mask around strangers was better than confrontations or worse. Fortunately my son is in a private school that didn't shut long. If he were in a state indoctrination facility I would have put energy into home schooling. Short of an actual armed counterrevolution nothing was going to check out teachers union. Recalling Newsom at least.

I do know of older people who.we're paranoid pansies. Too much tv news. Too much tear of death.