Do you remember the panic near the beginning of COVID when it was rumored there wouldn't be enough paper going around to make masks for everyone? Altho' after a while, some people grew sick of them, at the beginning, having them was a matter of life or death.
I saw a mask the other day discarded at the base of a neighbor's wall. It had served its purpose so was no longer useful, And a fella who boasted himself to be a big guy in the pond--the crayfish--had been reduced to pincers on the grass too. A tiny spider nearby was weaving a net on the corner of the mask thinking little about it all.