They could have simply told people "masks are good, but please leave them to health worker", i.e. appeal to people's better side. Instead they chose to take peo

They could have simply told people "masks are good, but please leave them to health worker", i.e. appeal to people's better side. Instead they chose to take people for idiots and lie to them, and lo and behold, people don't like being lied to and taken for idiots. This was not just in the US, exact same thing happened in most of Europe.