Me, stepping out of the Paris Metro: Aha, now that I am outdoors and the risk of COVID is reduced, I can remove my N95 mask and appear Socially Normative to the people around me.
Me, 3 seconds later, after removing my mask: Holy crap has the smog in Paris always been this bad
Early in COVID a part of me was like "well now we are wearing masks all the time, I'll have an excuse to not show people my ugly transsexual face". But then what I almost immediately discovered is that not only is my face extremely cute and the only reason I thought otherwise was body dysmorphia, but also my face is my most feminine feature, and when I hide it my "correctly gendered by strangers" rate plummets. Since I'm continuing to regularly mask, this has actually become a very large problem