A liberal who's nervous about not wearing a mask day-to-day anymore, despite being in good health and fully vaccinated against COVID.
The reason why a liberal becomes a demasker vary. Some, now accustomed to smugly broadcasting how sanitarily-minded they are and chiding others for improper mask usage, are still riding high and don't want the power trip to end just yet. Others are hesitant to admit just how much of their identity now revolves around liberal virtue signaling, or are worried that other virtue-signaling liberals will mistake them for anti-mask conservatives. Others still have been turned into paranoid hypochondriacs by too much cable news, overestimating the threat COVID poses to vaccinated people and thinking masks are still necessary.
"Why is Dave still wearing a mask everywhere, they said vaccinated peopledon't need one anymore."
"He's gone full demasker, he's a lost cause at this point
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)