The forced masking was a huge gift to criminals. Before you couldn't for example walk into a bank wearing a mask. Masking in public places was uncommon, sometimes forbidden, especially in the dead of night. Now...?
Like funk, I only ever wore one briefly in hospitals. Was getting a lot of dirty looks on public transport. Sweden had some of the most lax laws on masking, thankfully. The Chinese were so ethnonationalist and collectivist that they bought masks here when Covid appeared and sent them to China! The very first to mask at the tram stops I was at were Asian looking people. Chinese supposedly successfully contained the virus there, much better outcome than the US and other countries, they implemented very draconian measures, supposedly even welding peoples' houses so they couldn't get out LOL. And everyone fell into line immediately with the masking, it was the collectivist thinking, vs our more individualistic societies, for better or for worse, peoples' opinons differ on this...