but I'll be honest with you anyway: I almost never wore a mask in 2020. The only time I ever did was when I had to go into a grocery or hardware store that required it, and I respect the store owner's ability to dictate the goings-on inside his or her private store. Most of the time I was at other local stores (privately owned, not chains) where the owners didn't enforce any sort of mask mandate, and most folks weren't wearing them inside those stores.
Before you jump down my throat, my particular job had me interacting with dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of people a day, for 10-12 hours at a time, virtually none of whom were wearing masks. My coworkers and I got coughed on constantly. From Dec 2019 to early 2021 none of us ever got anything more than a simple cold (I didn't get anything at all until I had to fly, and I hate being stuck in a metal tube breathing the same air and always pick something up on a commercial flight).
One of my very best friends most definitely had C19 in Oct/Nov 2019, but at the time the doc diagnosed it as bronchitis; it lasted two weeks and it was the sickest he's ever been (to this day). But once the full on mandates started, virtually none of us were participating in it unless the boss was around (and he virtually never was). They even closed the gym at my company and every shift snuck in to use it. No issues at all.
The job requires significant amounts of lifting and hard breathing regularly, and a mask would simply not allow that. So, no masks. The work got done and the company didn't care. And when I wasn't working I was out hiking or walking or rucking roads, trails, hills, and mountains. Or in my kayak on the water. I prefer to stay far away from people as a general rule, so being out on my own was virtually no deviation from my normal routine. My family sailed through the entire period of 2020 to about mid-2021 or so without so much as a runny nose. Then I picked up something viral on an airplane like I always do 
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