Western arrogance during Covid-19

I made a few observations regarding masks, but never concluded "racism".

1) The original messages favored the individual over the group. From the onset, masks were pushed as a way to protect oneself. The thought that it can also curb the effect of a contagious individual on the mass was second. So, many people rejected wearing one, because they thought that they were probably ok (see point 2).

2) The COVID-19 was said to affect only a portion of the population that most people do not belong to. People thought I'm young, I'm healthy, it's just like the flu, I'm going to be okay. Why wear a mask, right?

3) The message that anything short of a N95 is not sufficiently effective to protect one self did nothing to encourage people to wear anything. There was a prevalent all or nothing attitude that became detrimental.

Today we know that any sort of face protection applied on the individual would have the compounded effect of also curbing the entire population's contagiousness. Unfortunately, that's not what we were going for originally.

It's a brand new day, and today White people are racist because shuffles deck they don't wear masks