6 October

The real reason most people won’t wear masks or take Covid precautions is that the majority of people are followers, they follow others in deciding what to do. If mask wearing becomes optional (as it is now), they won’t wear them because nobody is leading them to do otherwise. There’s no independent choice in operation. That’s how high school works. FB and other social media extend the dynamics of high school life into adulthood, perpetuating it across all age groups. I posted a while ago that this is how the Koreans ran such brutally effective POW camps in the Korean War. They recognised about 5% of people actually lead behaviour, the rest imitate and follow that 5%. So they killed that 5%, and the rest of the prisoners then did exactly as they were told. Today people won’t wear a mask or stop going to mass Covid spreading events because they don’t want to ‘stand out from the crowd’, to be the ‘odd one out’. They’re still in high school. The whole society is.