People still have their egos and identities attached to this, seeing disagreement as a personal or political attack.
It's going to take awhile for people to go through all the stages of grief about how ineffective and intrusive many of the state interventions during this pandemic really were.
Judging by the number of young, healthy, vaccinated people I still see outdoors in masks, it's still denial for a lot of them.
Perhaps they just came from somewhere indoors and want to have an extra barrier to protect them from unconsciously touching their face.
The reason doesn't really matter.
In this case, the authorities clearly acknowledging the difficulty for businesses, looking for tradeoffs, trying to keep them open while making compromises to at least reduce the risk. But no... Even that's not enough! Everything is black-and-white now: You either have zero restrictions or it's authoritarian overreach.
Just because there are a bunch of unhinged people with crazy ideas doesn't mean all skepticism or discussion around an extremely complex topic is unwarranted or irrational.