I don’t understand what it’s communicating. Is he happy? Did he give up on technology, or society altogether?

No it doesn’t. When others see people wearing a mask now, they think your either paranoid, virtue signalling, or have an health condition and therefore hava a higher threat model.

Really? At this point when see someone wearing a mask I assume they have a cold/flu/covid and they’re being prosocial…

Who let spez make a Lemmy account?