It's interesting how the most apparently compelling arguments that were made against people wearing masks turn out to be false in practice. I can think of two

It's interesting how the most apparently compelling arguments that were made against people wearing masks turn out to be false in practice. I can think of two categories: 1) the claim that the wearing of masks would impede law enforcement, including the passing of statues especially against masks on demonstrations 2) the claim that Muslim women wearing full religious head coverings could not be tolerated in public spaces because it was obvious that it would make it impossible to judge the mood or other psychologically important signals normally exchanged in public None of this seems to have been true. Sure, there probably is some small validity to some aspects of those claims, but they seem to have been hugely exaggerated.