Americans' emotional reaction to masks

And if it does change the fabric of our interactions, is that one reason why the masks are not more popular in the United States?

And indeed, people have long used masks to achieve a kind of plausible deniability. At carnival festivities worldwide people wear masks, and this seems to encourage greater revelry, drunkenness and lewd behaviour, traits also associated with masked balls. The mask creates another persona. The masks themselves might encourage this norm adherence by boosting the sense of membership among the wearers. The public health benefits of wearing a mask far exceed the social costs but, still, if we want it to be a stable norm in the US, we may need to at least recognise some of its secondary effects, such as the disorientations that masks can produce.

If we admit that mask-wearing has a psychologically strange side, we might do better than simply to lecture the miscreants about their failings.

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