Now that the weather's getting nicer, I've been going mountain biking pretty much every weekend. Every time I go, people are there in large groups riding together, and sessioning features. Most people bring a friend too (myself included). Me and my buddy ran into a couple other cool guys a couple weeks ago and rode with them for the whole day, no distancing, masks or bullshit.
So hopefully this can provide a little glimmer of hope to you guys.
Most Canadians know this is bullshit but don't want to say anything.
I went two hours down the highway to the next town over to buy a game off some kid on facebook. Absolute beauty day for a motorcycle ride. Anyways this kids dad, a complete stranger to me was out in the front yard pruning some fruit trees. I shot the shit with him for an hour about all kinds of stuff and he never said jack shit about masks or distancing, and we stood a few feet away from each other. In fact he told me he thought the whole pandemic was probably bullshit and it was only really an inconvenience to his camping plans.
If you talk to people online on places like Reddit they think the sky is falling and the only way to stop doomsday is to bend over and do whatever authority figures tell us to on the TV.....but in reality most people you talk to on the street are quite fed up with the blatant lies and absurdity of it all. At best you get an on the fence "Gee I don't know" response about it all.
You’ve nailed it on the head. They think that fear is a virtue.