Mask Mandates Are Illogical. So What?

At one point, in Spain, they required you needed to stand up with a mask on, and then remove it in order to light a smoke(outside of course since it's the EU).

Depending on ventilation and table layout, it makes sense. When you walk to your table, you are contaminating the air in wider area while sitting. So it is logical but how big is the effect I do not know really.

Do the ones that are making a stink if someone doesn't wear their mask think it's BS? It would be strange to me that someone would get wound up over of conformity without actually agreeing with its premise.

In previous pandemics in Japan and Hong Kong, people were explicitly making the argument that even if they do nothing practical to reduce spread, mask wearing has a beneficial effect of raising social consciousness. To follow literature on this, you could start with Burgess(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22443378/).