My home office window looks out to a school bus stop on our street, a school bus that picks up elementary school children in our neighborhood, I'd say most under 10 years of age. They are socially distanced on the buses, with only half of the seats filled (kids go to school on alternating schedules to social distance on buses), and the children have to wear masks. So they are all lined up just before the bus gets there, with their masks on, back packs loaded up, and now with jackets as it is getting colder, especially early in the morning. The parents however, don't wear masks. The parents are mostly in their thirties, a few who may be in their early forties. None of them wear masks, and most of them know each other from their walks in the neighborhood each day over the summer months, walking their dogs, mowing their lawns, etc.
These are not people who are illiterate, they are mostly professionals, accountants, engineers, managers, medical doctors, professors, nurses, city managers, etc. They aren't defiant, when they go into a grocery store that requires a mask, they wear one, but when they aren't required to wear a mask, they don't. They understand my choice, however, and accept it, as I accept their choice. We have different risk assessments, based on age and health.
