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[Spongebob]

I'm still struggling with trying to understand why so many USians are refusing to wear a mask. I mean, it's not like they were being asked to wear a Nickelback t-shirt or something.

Boru

For about the same reason many people in the US are getting offended by the suggestion everybody should wear the MAGA hat. Mask is a political symbol, and not just in the US.

You've got that completely wrong.  The MAGA hat is purely a political symbol.  It has absolutely nothing to do with anything but politics and for that matter it is 99% limited to supporters of Trump.  So in some respects it isn't even political, as MAGA hat wearers don't truly endorse conservative values, only Trump values, whatever those happen to be at the moment.

Mask wearing is purely a health issue, but because Trump and his sycophants decided to politicize the pandemic, masks and vaccines, their followers, like good little Nazi's, believe that everyone on the left and everyone in medicine is trying to dupe them.  They literally believe it is a hoax perpetrated by Hillary to get Trump out of office (among other idiotic things).  Don't try too hard to make sense of it because it will only make sense for someone viewing the world through Trump colored glasses.  About the only thing that gets through to these dingdongs is when they are about to die of Covid, and even some of those go to their graves not accepting it.