[povik]

> The psychological boost of everyone wearing their own lovely little custom masks together was really cool and bonding. They were the last connection to the early successful response to covid, when they were deprecated it seemed to be around the time where everyone just sort of gave up.

True. Now that I think of it, it was an interesting time when the masks were first mandated virtually overnight. Back then it was okay to wear a mask which was obviously made from a kitchen towel, then people gradually shifted towards wearing neatly-made ones.

[smcl]

Yeah that period was really something! I was among the first few hundred positive cases here, and ended up quarantined in my flat for six weeks due to some testing anomalies. The "masks everywhere" stuff started while I was indoors, and when I finally emerged it was totally surreal to walk around in streets which were empty other than a handful people in masks all with their own colours and patterns.

[m4rtink]

Yeah, it was crazy - when I finally ventured out on a sunny day during the first wave, there was hardly anyone on the otherwise crowded streets and main squares of Brno (second biggest city in CZ) and anyone left had a mask of some sort. Really surreal! :)

Shame it all went to hell when the next wave hit in autumn. #bestincovid again, just the other way around...