Jesus that is fucking grim. I more or less expected this was happening to some degree, but the difference between those two Pearson correlation coefficient charts is about as stark as it gets.

I’ll never be shamed into not masking. I’m constantly being pathologized and/or pitied for masking and avoiding high-risk scenarios by the people in my life (with a tiny minority of fellow maskers who keep me sane), but my determination has only gotten stronger the more data we get. It’s only going to get worse from here, especially in the States.