I'd like to point out to anyone who thinks that "you do you" public health is sustainable that it's illegal to wear a mask in many public places in the US. This has only been on hold because of the emergency declaration and that's about to end.

For example, let me introduce you to my local law in Florida. Florida State statute 876.12:

Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public way.—No person or persons over 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be or appear upon any lane, walk, alley, street, road, highway, or other public way in this state.

This law was pointed out to my wife by a law enforcement officer who really wanted to arrest her for wearing a mask in a grocery store last year.

If you think you're going to be able to avoid COVID after the end of the emergency declaration you'd better be a full on hermit who never has to venture out.

@BE I am in Florida and this is news to me. (I do wear a mask indoors).

Do you have a ref or link for this? I searched and could not find one

@alexf24

I know it's long, but I'd encourage you to read through the comments to the post as this has been pretty thoroughly hashed out.

It's ostensibly an anti-KKK bill that in pre-pandemic times was used against people wearing the type of mask we're talking about here.

https://www.anapsid.org/cnd/mcs/maskcodes.html

It's in the FL state statutes here:

https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2011/876.12

Thank you for still wearing a mask! In my part of FL I haven't seen one(except a cloth chin diaper this past week) in longer than I can remember.