Has anyone noticed the decrease in mask usage?

[TaraJo]

The good news is, the virus is most likely to kill people who have other health issues and/or the elderly.  Trump is 74 years old and obese.  I'm forced to wonder how his Trumpanzees will react when he chokes to death on a respirator after covid turns his lungs into swiss cheese.  Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't want anyone to have to die like that, but if that's the wake up call we need to get people to start taking it seriously, I'll welcome it.

Bear in mind that Trump has somehow managed to keep ticking, possibly because, longevity-wise, his genes managed to luck out: Trump's father died at 94 (his own mother died at 85; dad died at 49 as an early case of the Spanish Flu epidemic) and his mother at 88 (her father was 87 and mother was 96.) Except for his paternal grandfather, the minimum death age was 85. Then again, that one outlier died during the last huge flu pandemic.

A while back, I wrote this: 

Trump seems to have inherited genes that will predispose him to living a very long life (barring... occupational hazards inherent in being the most consistently unpopular president in living memory). And given that he:

• Lives on steaks so well-done they're indistinguishable from the firewood probably used to cook them, 2400-calorie meals at McDonald's, KFC, and maybe a taco if he feels like looking a bit less racist than he usually does
  
• Does not exercise, and is convinced that people are born with a finite amount of energy and exercise merely saps our reserves
  
• Has, on a good day, four hours of sleep, often as little as 90 minutes, per day
  
• Has been living like this for DECADES and the closest thing to it catching up with him being his taking Crestor for cholesterol
  

It's certainly possible he'll still be kicking well into his late eighties.

With all this, I can't help but think he'll be alive for the long haul, even with his reckless attitude towards the pandemic. Health-wise, he's the health equivalent of an Idiot Houdini. Though with this development, to quote the Tyrion Lannister of English Poetry, hope does spring eternal.

As much as he has certainly had some Karma Houdini going on, I think a lot of that is because he's rich and his family is rich.  In this world, rich people never suffer.  They never lose.  Things always work out for rich people.  But it remains to be seen how much protection money will provide him from covid ripping his lungs to shreds.  As much as he may have financial defenses, he's been going out of his way to encourage people to ignore the pandemic, to not wear masks, to pretend there's no disease, to be hostile towards anyone who attempts to control the disease.  Those rallies he's throwing, I can't think of an environment better suited to spreading the virus to thousands, all at once, and it would be quite easy for Trump to be one of those thousands infected.  If he actually have that kind of insane luck, he's really going to press it until this pandemic ends.