Interesting, I thought you were a little more pro-mask. While there does exist a group of "masks are completely ineffective, period" group. I'd say many of these people are just taking that stance because they're mostly against them having to be forced or socially guilt tripped into wearing one.

On the flip-side to these anti-mask to the extreme people, there are pro-mask people to the extreme. I've seen people try to blame a lack of mask use on everything. If a covid-19 stat is bad, it's because no one is wearing masks. To these people masks are the difference between a second lock-down or not and it's a do or die situation for them to such an extent that people are getting killed for not wearing masks.

The reality is that a second lock-down will be decided by the government and no amount of mask wearing or not will decide if there's a second lock-down because there is no actual metric by which to measure whether one should actually engage in a second lock-down or not. We could literally not lock-down anything, not mandate masks and open everything. There's no reason we can't. A choice of a lock-down is a choice and masks are never going to be the make or break to someone making that choice. The hysteria of mask wearing goes both ways, which is another reason governments shouldn't be mandating on masks and staying the hell away from them because they're too political for such little gain.