then there are the people with germophobic OCD that COVID just made spiral into irrationality, like my brother's wife.
she was a teacher until COVID and now she makes all kinds of exhausting and irrational demands on everyone around her because of her OCD that COVID exacerbated and she refuses to recognize and deal with it properly. which makes it even harder to discuss reasonable hygiene measures, because people with OCD make irrational demands and make everyone who cares about hygiene/COVID prevention seem to be mentally ill.
lol. she makes my beother strip naked and take a shower any time he comes into the house from outside.
she wipes everything down with bleach all day long and mops the floors constantly. she won't let our mom see her grandkid because she is scared he will get a disease from her. is that enough?
your defensiveness and mistrust is telling. OCD exists.