I've thought the mandates were stupid right from the start. Don't get me wrong, I am not an anti-masker, and I work in healthcare so I've worn a mask every day for the last 3 years.

But forcing people who do not want to wear masks to wear them is just a waste of masks. They aren't wearing them properly or effectively. Hell, a large portion of people who support masks aren't wearing them properly. This is why you see so many people with masks around their chin or below their nose. Might as well have just thrown the mask straight into the garbage.

Any miniscule benefit from forced masking is outweighed by the oppositionary reaction to being forced to do something you don't want to do. Now you have people protesting masks and purposefully wearing them wrong in the name of "muh freedoms".