It was genuinely difficult to persuade people to wear masks before everyone started doing it and it became normal.

Nobody was persuaded, they were forced by law exactly because it was obvious to everyone with their brain switched on that masks didn't work. Remember how when the rules demanding masks on planes were rescinded there were videos of whole planes ripping off their masks and celebrating mid-flight? Literally the second the law changed, people stopped wearing masks.

That's because masks were a mass hysteria. They did not work. Everyone could see it.

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n4r9 7 days ago | parent [-]

As a counterpoint, myself and most people I know continued mask-wearing for many months after it stopped being a legal requirement in the UK.

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qcnguy 7 days ago | parent [-]

Sorry to hear that. The people you know are not representative.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/26/the-great-cove...

"The psychology of masks: why have so many people stopped covering their faces? (This article is more than 3 years old)

In England, masks are expected and recommended in crowded and enclosed spaces – but not legally required. Many have abandoned them altogether. What would convince everyone to put them back on?"

That story opens with a vox pop from Dave The Normal Guy:

Dave stopped wearing his face mask “the second I didn’t have to. I grudgingly wore it, because it was the right thing to do and because it was mandatory,” says the teacher from East Sussex. “But I felt, and still do, that the reason we were told to wear masks was to make scared people feel less scared.” He didn’t feel awkward abandoning his mask, he says, as “hardly anybody bothers”, but he will put one on when visiting the vet, pharmacist or doctor, because he knows they want him to. “I feel it’s the respectful thing to do, but it’s a bit of theatre.”

Dave was 100% correct.

	▲	n4r9 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		A quotation from someone named Dave in a Guardian article doesn't constitute a representative sample either. But that's beside the point. Your post said that "nobody" could be persuaded to wear masks and "everybody" could see that they didn't work. That's clear hyperbole.