In the 1st year of the SCAMdemic, people were hearing of many deaths and severe illnesses attributed to covid. Wearing a mask outside could be considered a bit paranoid, but indoors was a different story, imvho...from personal experience.
Mostly all those people likely understand a bit more now, primarily, the massive effort to inject as much unecessary fear as possible, even to the point of threatening those who rejected the covid shots.