That’s one very good reason why everyone should wear a mask to anti-lockdown protests. Why let the Deep State collect any more information on your identity than they already have?
If they want to mandate this, turn it back on them. Assemble a team to stand outside the governor’s mansion wearing plague doctor costumes 24 x 7. Patronize liberal businesses while dressed like gangbangers with bandanas covering your faces. Get scary Halloween masks and ride the subways and public transit. Make the Karens pay a price for misusing government authority to drive away their fears.
I happen to think the masks are worthless and COVID-19 is primarily spread not by aerosolized droplets but by illicit intimate contact and Third World sanitation practices, just like SARS in 2003. Our public transportation, hospitals, and nursing homes have these things in abundance - the rest of society, not so much. The shutdowns were never justified, and continuing them is an act of criminal malfeasance by opposition politicians. Almost as if they have to loudly blame middle class Americans for spreading the virus to take attention off of all the Third-Worlders they have let in in recent decades..
It seems to have done the prevention trick in HK.
CCP was deliberately importing contagious cases in January/February.
HK still did NOT crash and burn with CV contagion.
Same fundamentals as NYC. Densely crowded, extensive use of public transportation.
And yet, no CV meltdown.
HKers weren’t just masking up for protest marches. They were masking up all the time. Just because. They’ve been doing that for over a year now.
The mask emojis on HK twitter personalities have nothing to do with CV and everything to do with HK resistance.