must be, I'm giving an honest assessment of shops around me, I'd say comfortably at least 3 of every 10 people aren't wearing masks and it defeats the purpose, and then it's irritating when people say "see, they don't really work" when they clearly aren't being used as they should be, and it only takes a small number of people in one place not doing it properly to set off a spread. In the shop I just popped into, both servers and 3 customers out of about 8 people in the shop weren't wearing masks, as an example (I had to test in a machine whether my debit card is working or not as I've been having issues and the bank asked me to test it).
There's lots of reasons to be optimistic with vaccines, lower death rates, better treatments, starting to see more understanding of some aspects of long covid, but people's net behaviour has declined recently in my perspective and it's a problem. The prospect of people's opportunity to enjoy Christmas a little as a reward for behaving being crushed because we can't get cases down enough now as people aren't behaving is hard to take for people who've behaved the whole way through. We've closed a bunch of places to allow schools to stay open and keep cases at a steady level, now schools will close for christmas and the roles should be reversed within reasonable restrictions the other way to pay people back for their sacrifices this year.
So this whole "doom monger" vs "denier" thing is just silly, most people are hopeful if not optimistic in certain areas but concerned in others, blanketing it as one or the other just turns those concerns to frustration and anger and people boil over as a result.
