Being asked to pin a yellow star to your clothing was also a minor inconvenience. Totalitarianism takes over your life one minor inconvenience at a time.
Obviously not the same thing for a huge number of reasons. To start with, everyone is being asked to wear a mask and it has genuine health benefits. If only Republicans were asked to wear a mask just to identify themselves, then it might have some similarity.
Totalitarianism takes over your life one minor inconvenience at a time.
We have to accept all sorts of compromises just to live in a society, but especially in times of national emergency. Not all of these are creeping totalitarianism. It's an inconvenience for dog owners that they have to pick up after their dog, but it improves life for everyone else.
It's more inconvenient to be in the hospital because you can't breathe than it is to wear a mask.
When you go in a store, wouldn't you like to reduce the chance that you breathe in the virus? Wouldn't you prefer that other people were at least trying not to spread the virus to you?