Tbh, I could give a flyin' rat's ass... I just think its funny.
Let me ask you this.. do you wear a life preserver while riding a bike if the bike path happens to go by a pond? You'd look pretty stupid right?
I don't think the risk for catching the virus goes to zero by simply being outdoors with no one in the immediate vicinity if there is a proper amount of wind present and people are otherwise around; or could suddenly become around.
Someone wearing a mask, during a pandemic, outside, doesn't strike me as odd.
I think some people wear a mask when they will eventually be around others. But they put it on before that happens to avoid the situation of putting it on once they see someone approaching. Optics.
They may also want to avoid repeatedly touching their mask with their hands.
Or their hands may be unclean, causing them to leave their mask on so that they won't have to touch it.
Regardless, seeing someone trying to protect themselves, and by extension, whoever loves and depends on them, especially if they are at higher risk, would cause me to hold them in higher regard than folks who simply don't give af about wearing a mask--
despite the
possibility it may save a life or more.
Maybe I would have thought it was funny when I was 10, or maybe 11 years old--but I hope not.
Your comparison is flawed as you
can know with certainty whether you are in a body of water; but you
can't know with certainty where the virus is.
Even so, that person might be
transporting the vest/jacket; and found it easier to simply wear it while they were riding their bike to the destination--which could be a body of water.