Can't infect the birdies and chipmunks I guess.
This typifies the real problem: the powers that be don’t use common sense or exercise critical judgment. A mask in a space crowded with people makes sense. A mask in the great outdoors does not. But bureaucrats aren’t paid or rewarded for thinking, they are paid to implement regulations and control.
The “one size fits all” approach has been exposed by this virus to be a bankrupt way of doing things but it is the only way the government understands..