re: #111 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes.
There is clearly a correlation between C-grade celebrities dressing up as steampunk squirrels…and the general usage of cloth mouth-and-nose coverings.
What pisses me off is that it’s not even a well-constructed paranoid speculation.
A far better paranoid speculation would be that the popularity of Naruto, a ninja anime, a decade ago, was programming children into accepting masks.