It would have certainly happened. It could also never have reached such a magnitude had health authorities not proclaimed for 3 months that masks are the new facehuggers.
And most anti-maskers are against it because of government overreach. Unrelated to science.
A third party has emerged. The "we'll believe and parrot anything because it's what we're told".
They act in the following realm (whether they are aware or not):
Cotton/cloth masks don't work. But it qualifies as a mask so checkbox! Moral superiority is on my side whether science is or not doesn't matter.
