They didn't want to notice. They just wanted things to "be normal again". What they never thought about was that... If would be "normal again" if they just stopped complying and acted like everything was normal again.
My wife and I never bought in. Got ugly looks, no one ever told us to leave somewhere and we did get sick like 2 times in 4 years. You do you. We did limit our time around other people especially in public because they had lost their minds and were unpredictable but that was about it. Our own friends that were "full mask" came over for dinner several times with their young child and did not "mask up" or ask us to. They just acted "normal". Both of them and their kid are fine and healthy to this day.
They thought that a small shot in the arm would make their blood magic and could not be harmed anymore. They then thought if you did not do the same thing that they would die because you didn't do it. These two things should not be able to exist in the same mind at the same time but then again.. They lost their damn minds.
Sadly, for some of them. That small "shot in the arm" made their body toxic and now it is killing them and they can do nothing about it.