Performance art and the genuinely mentally ill are indistinguishable now. The people putting this hoax on know that. They know there's a subset of people that love the mask because it allows them to hide in plain sight from scary emotions. They know there's a subset of people that are crazed authoritarians that love rules that allow them to control other people. These people used to be on the fringes of society but the coronahoax put them both front and center. This was known and weaponized.