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Did COVID Masks Help Create the Gen Z Stare?

Why blank expressions may have more to do with social conditioning than attitude

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Patti Katter
Jul 23, 2025
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Everyone remembers the COVID mask rules—but not everyone followed them the same way. Some states required them everywhere. Others barely enforced them. And depending on where you lived, your experience looked totally different.

In Florida, for example, where I lived, masks weren’t required in most places. I personally wore one maybe twice—both times on a…

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