Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung
2014, https://www.ted.com/talks/hubertus_knabe_the_dark_secrets_of...
> Hubertus Knabe studies the Stasi — and was spied on by them. He shares stunning details from the fall of a surveillance state, and shows how easy it was for neighbor to turn on neighbor.
Wearing them imposed minimal burden, so why are you surprised when you signal that you don't care about others in your society, that they responded in kind?
Not wearing one implied a lack of care for others in your society.
I'm not sure what a "fine speculator" is?
In the UK the Tory ruling party used mask supply, and it seems other contract-based fraud (Covid website, at least), to steal £Billions from the Exchequer.