Last time this year, most people you saw in rural areas were still showing their faces – a stark contrast to the near-universal face-effacing one saw in suburban and most of all, urban areas.

Now it's the other way 'round.

At least, in my rural area. There are few face-effacers to be seen in Roanoke, Va – until just a month or so ago, a "hot spot" of face-effacing. Even where not enforced, one rarely saw another face when Orange Man was still very bad. It was a sea of "masks" – as these disgusting items are styled by those who do not understand what it means to wear one.

But as of this week, even at the hottest spots of all – such as the "clean foods" store, Earth Fare, which is very popular with people superficially concerned about their health (italicized to reflect the fact that any otherwise healthy person who wears a "mask" is not healthy in the head and any otherwise healthy person who assumes the risk of being Jabbed is most definitely not actually concerned with their health) there are now lots of faces showing.

And only a handful of sad-looking face-effacers, generally the very old and the very young – the former with at least some reason for effacing; the latter's capacity to reason having never developed or been superseded by he need to broadcast what they believe to be their moral superiority.