No it hasn't. For decades, or rather for all of recorded history, staying home and bed rest have been recommended to people who are sick. Meaning the opposite of going out in public, mask or not.
Some people do not have the luxury of taking a sick day. You book a flight weeks in advance and it might cost you a few hundred dollars to change it because you got sick at the last minute (assuming whatever it was you were flying to could even be rescheduled which it probably can't).
The world was a very different place, pre-COVID, and there were plenty of times I was on a plane or at a conference next to someone sick as a dog doing everything they could to "socially distance" and have known many (admittedly Asian) people who wore masks whenever they had a cold.
The perversion of mask mandates was flipping it from being a way for infectious to be polite to the foolish idea of controlling and subjugating healthy people.
No it hasn't. For decades, or rather for all of recorded history, staying home and bed rest have been recommended to people who are sick. Meaning the opposite of going out in public, mask or not.
Some people do not have the luxury of taking a sick day. You book a flight weeks in advance and it might cost you a few hundred dollars to change it because you got sick at the last minute (assuming whatever it was you were flying to could even be rescheduled which it probably can't).
The world was a very different place, pre-COVID, and there were plenty of times I was on a plane or at a conference next to someone sick as a dog doing everything they could to "socially distance" and have known many (admittedly Asian) people who wore masks whenever they had a cold.
The perversion of mask mandates was flipping it from being a way for infectious to be polite to the foolish idea of controlling and subjugating healthy people.