People have learned nothing from the pandemic. Even if they think Covid is over, the mitigation skills we developed were also protecting us from colds, flu, bacteria, allergens, etc.

Masks also protect us against something else in airports: facial recognition and tracking. I find this is a much more compelling argument to the "covid's just the flu; masks are a scam" crowd.

In especially, since Covid is far from over. It's become endemic and is now a companion of humanity. May - insert higher being the reader believes in - have mercy with us.

Exactly. Even were COVID gone I'd be keeping up reasonable precautions like masking.