"... I don't sense there's too much appetite for chucking common sense among most people."

One man's common sense is another man's received wisdom. If your opinion is that mask-wearing is the right way ahead, then consider that that is just your opinion. In that circumstance, it ill-behoves you to castigate people who don't share it. Bear in mind that there is little or no rigorous science to show that masks are effective. Provocative but inconveniently true.