quote BrewingFrog; "Masks don't do a damned thing except show your submission."
Refute the point. I can point to a number of studies, all laboriously linked in the Plague thread, that commonly worn cloth masks don't do a damned thing to stop transmitting or contracting a respiratory virus such as this one. If they did, how come there's all these cases all of a sudden? Why, there's "Mask Mandates" everywhere...
As to the submission aspect, since it is known that the efficacy of masks is bupkis, why are the tyrants forcing people into doing something useless? The only reasons that seem to fit are measuring the ability to coerce an ignorant public, and the illusion amongst said ignorant public to be seen as "doing something. " No matter how ineffective or asinine it may be.
As was said very early on in this episode, the most effective way of inhibiting transmission is to wash your hands frequently. But, simple personal hygiene doesn't virtue signal like a face diaper...