That Afghan corruption makes me wonder how much corruption was inside the US military that spent billions on Afghan personnel training that resulted in the immediate collapse.
My guess is that US military administration was over 90% corrupt in Afghanistan.
1) You may "go places" by driving your car (that goes 50mph) closer to your target place. Then use your "unoptimized" bike to reach your target at shorter distance.
2) "shorten your distance to zero" is too extreme, because we need some physical exercise and want some enjoyable experience.
'Not real' is a strawman fallacy argument.
The real argument against wearking masks is that Covid-19 is similar to Influenza: a dangerous desease, but still not dangerous enough to spend too much time on wearing masks/social distancing -- and keep living in fear.
The reasoning against wearing masks -- is that wearing masks and social distancing - hurts more than it helps.