If the state recommends, for the good of the people, that for ease of transactions everyone will be transacting “cashless” and that a scanable chip be implanted with the same information as your debit card so that you are always prepared for purchases, would you comply? I mean, what could be more inocuous than facilitating people buying bread?
No, nor submit to permanently wearing a mask at all times and one that severely restricts breathing or in our own property, or needing a vaccine passport to buy or sell (which even the ACLU opposes!) - which is indeed a conditioning precursor to the mark of the Beast. And although Covid restrictions are conditioning the masses to accept permanent losses of freedom of movement etc, yet your analogy to implantation of a chip to mask wearing fails in objective analysis.
For in contrast to a temporarily being required to wearing mask in public places that you can put on and remove and is only required in public places, and in effect simply hinders breathing and expression and does not necessarily signify agreement, and can be justified by the state as "for the good of the people" as would be the case in the after effects of a dirty bomb, the implantation of a chip is permanent, and is a form of mutilation, even a form of branding, and as a requirement for all in order to buy or sell it is not justified as one should not even have to use a credit card and should be be free to barter etc. And beyond even that would be the wilful exaltation of the ruler (and or state) as a God and dependence upon it as if it were God. An ruler-worship example that Revelation 13 warns of is,
And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country. And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. (Acts 12:20-23)
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:14-17)
Yet some people believe that even a SS number or drivers license is akin to taking the mark, or saluting the flag is akin to taking the Mark, as signifying ideological allegiance which is equated to worship by such, and thus we must differentiate such from what the Bible warns of is coming. For by itself, without any ideological allegiance to a ruler, the implantation of a chip could be seen by many as justified "for the good of the people" as reducing crime etc.. However, there are other means for this, and such will contain far more than the same information as your debit card and which itself enables tracking. And what unequivocally excludes the implantation of a chip is the attribution of powers to deity to the state, of worship, which will go along with the mark, signifying unequivocal allegiance and devotion as to a God.which is what Revelation contextually warns of, versus paying taxes you are not obligated to pay but easily can, or slaves serving masters, or under duress wearing a mask in public due to the priority of promoting the gospel. Which is the only reason I inconsistently wear a breathable fleece mask in public.