My objection was never about those people who chose to wear masks. Even before COVID was an issue in the US I would see Asian women wearing masks during cold season and it is commonplace in crowded areas of Tokyo. What I objected to was
the mistaken notion that mandating everyone to wear a mask was medically necessary or effective at protecting people who weren’t infected from those that were.
People carry rabbit’s feet and hang garlic cloves around their necks to protect them from all kinds of imagined demons. That’s their misfortune until they want the rest of us to go along with their fantasy.
Especially since the same crowd in late February / early March of 2020 were attacking those *were* wearing masks as being selfish, wasting scarce resources, etc. for something that was “totally ineffective” (their words).
There is indeed a quasi-religious aspect to this from our Leftist friends. It’s an exceedingly odd thing.