Criminalizing a simple, easy, personal tool for public health is absurd and incredibly harmful. Masking whenever, wherever, for whatever reason, should be a completely normal and accepted part of life in a society.
Facial recognition systems needs to work to protect the power elites! Public protection is contrary to the power structures. Profits are made off of public vulnerabilities.
It ought to be illegal to ban it under America's constitution, but fascist judges will find a way to legalize those bans. Grim times in those United States.
Things I have masked in addition to covid and other respiratory infections: wildfire smoke, fireworks smoke, campfire smoke, silt dust when when walking around a recently flooded city, cold temps, fresh cut grass, dust while cleaning (that one is at home). They are great!