A group of couples out to dinner at a restaurant talk about their questions and doubts about COVID policies. All through it they keep warning each other to stop talking and display more and more over-the-top signs of anxiety. Finally one of them asks "Did any of us ever need the mask?" They all yell "No!" in horrified realization and the scene cuts to a montage of malefic imagery (and eclipse, time-lapse footage of a rotting rat corpse, etc) Then it comes back to the dinner scene and they say (paraphrasing) "Oh I'm glad I said it out loud. Of course we need the masks. Everyone is just doing the best they can and we'll all get through it together."