No it doesn't. We have been doing the whole spiel for over a year now, running different experiments in different countries.

Lockdowns are not silver bullets - what drives viral spread is behaviour, not legal measures. In fact, if everybody would stay at home for 14 days, the virus dies (decays exponentially).

What actually happened is that folks made the wearing of a piece of cloth, meant to protect others, a political statement and a 'restriction of personal freedom'.