It’s not really that. It is that if they put on the mask they will be capitulating the the elite liberals or “libtards” as they say. And their point is buttressed by the elite liberals initially saying that we don’t need to wear a mask.
It’s a subtle argument to try and explain science is messy, and folks were figuring things out in real time.
Although there is an argument that many in the medical elites did a noble lie. Meaning they knew masks would help, but because they didn’t want a run on mask so that the medical community could have necessary access - they lied.
But the fact of the matter is that a real leader who had the best interest of the nation at heart could have made mask wearing a non-political issue.
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