Is there just one simple answer in life or in this post? If you think of all the mental masks that people can wear and have worn, more or less their entire life?

There's no denying it that there has been one big thing going on in the whole world for past couple of years but that's just it, at the same time everything that was going on in 2017 is still going on, the state of climate, people fighting other deceases like cancer, people dying in conflicts etc, but then again everything is seen through the pandemic glasses. So the mental masks people wore 2017 are very different than what they are wearing in 2022. So this is about everything, mental and physical. And yes, we all wear them, masks, sometimes. Some thinner, some thicker for various reasons.

But as the major, biggest issue still is the global pandemic, isn't that the first thing a mask transported from the year 2017 to the future, to year 2022, would see first? A mental mask that is made a physical entity here, in this post, takes one short look and starts to bleed. And the hate thing, it's sometimes all around. Some people choose to think black and white, pick a side and then everyone who is not with them is against them and that is the hate I wrote about. Not saying which side because it comes in many forms.

From my point of view, from the corner of the world where I live in, from this angle, to my eyes, people seem to have a more stronger ability to frown upon other people than before. So much that it no longer is just an inconvenience if someone frowns upon someone elses hair style or clothes but now it sometimes represents itself as hate against people who have chosen differently than what the person frowning has chosen. But that's only from my point of view. Although I try to be objective, it's always colored by my past experiences and my knowledge or ignorance about things.

Even when talking about the sentence that has the words "majority of scientists" in it. There are scientists in many areas of life, but the current situation, people having really strong opinions, seems to have a very bad affect in other areas too, science in general. Black and white thinking, craving for simple answers, straight lines when life is full of curves, loops, twists, turns and general scramble.

I'll just leave these couple links here if you find the mask and masking subject interesting.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/laugh-your-way-well-being/201510/the-masks-we-wear
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masking_(personality).