Couple things:
1) I’m against mandates from the government to wear masks. I’m generally against government using force or taxation to control peoples’ behavior, unless it truly is an imminent matter of life and death (e.g. police keeping people out of an active crime scene).
2) There were mask mandates in most major cities and plenty of photographic evidence of people wearing masks during Spanish Flu. And this is probably nearly as bad as Spanish Flu, pound for pound. We just have better tools now for treatment and prevention. When President Trump announces approval of a safe and effective vaccine, that will spell the end of all this COVID stuff, including the masks, shutdowns, social distancing, etc. That’s why he’s put so much effort into the vaccines.
The total duration of mask mandates during the Spanish Flu pandemic was 4-6 weeks. We’re zooming past six months on our way to eighteen.
Why?