masks became mandatory for the hoax in the summer of 2020 when the realization was occurring among the masses that the entire covid ordeal was bullshit. the nigger floyd riots revealed that it was all clearly not real. somehow covid gained the ability to virtue signal and gathering to riot was deemed 'not a risk of transmission' by the jewish media. masks were required as a visual cue that "we are in a pandemic."

So now it's not about the virus at all. It's about following orders, doing what you're told - James Cole, 12 Monkeys (1995)

The underlying mechanisms are a bit more complicated, but basically boil down to how an authoritarian state is created. Such a state can be created without the need for explicit violence (which induces fear in the populous), by inducing fear in another way. The fear must be of an external threat, an "other", from whom the populous must be kept "safe", and only the state is able to provide that safety. The "other" can be truly external, such as a foreign invader, or even extra-terrestrials might work, or an existential threat such as "climate change", or it could be an internal threat, in this case the "unvaccinated" were converted into the "other" that was to be feared.

The masks were an integral part of the "fear theatre". If people were just walking around looking and sounding normal, they weren't dropping dead in the streets, pretty soon the population would twig to the realization that the situation wasn't really that serious. However, if you force everyone to wear masks, that provides a strong visual reinforcement that something is happening, something that isn't normal, something that the government has told you to fear. It could be anywhere!

TL;DR; Fear is the mechanism of control in technocratic authoritarianism.

“So why, even despite the science, does the Left insist on wearing — and forcing others to wear — masks?

I will offer four reasons.

One reason is that the further Left one goes, the more fear governs an individual’s life.

This is true because the more one is governed by fear, the more one is likely to take left-wing positions. And it is true because left-wing positions inculcate fear. In other words, the frightened gravitate to the Left, and the Left makes people frightened.

The second reason the Left still insists on mask wearing is that leftists don’t ask the question, “At what price?” In fact, the moment one asks that question, one becomes a conservative.

The price paid for mask wearing is huge. Not seeing people’s faces has a negative impact on human relations. People whose face cannot be seen are less human — isn’t that why people who oppose the Muslim veil oppose it? Doesn’t the veil dehumanize the woman whose face disappears behind it? What is the effective difference between the veil and the mask? There is none. And what about children who don’t see faces outside of their house? What about patients who don’t see the faces of nurses and doctors? The nursing home residents who can’t see the smiles and hear the unmuffled speech of their caregivers? The harm done is huge.

A third reason for left-wing support for masks is that leftists read, listen to, and watch left-wing media only. Thus, they were completely ignorant of all that we who opposed masks knew thanks to the fact that we also consume non-Left media.

A fourth reason the Left insists on forcing others to wear masks is that controlling others’ lives is in the Left’s raison d’etre. Controlling others is what leftism is all about. That is why the Left seeks ever-expanding government. There is no such thing as increasing the size of government but not increasing the amount of government control over people’s lives. By definition, more government means more control over people’s lives. There is no example of the Left gaining power anywhere in the world and at any time since the Left took over Russia in 1917 and not restricting the freedom of its citizens.

Understand the Left’s support for mask-wearing and you will understand the Left.”

Yet the entire medical system is still forcing masks. They look stupider by the day.