I suppose that - like certain proverbial parts of the anatomy - everybody has an opinion about the mask mandates. Virtue-signaling aside, it would be pleasant to have the whole story, and it appears that our own government agencies may be the last place to find it. When I was in medical school many years ago, we learned in Public Health classes that there had never been a successful attempt to contain a contagious respiratory virus because long experience had shown it impossible. Current experience suggests that we are doing no better, although hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and vitamin D3 appear to be extremely effective in stopping the cytokine storm - essentially the body’s overreaction to the virus - that account for the vast majority of deaths.
The vaccines appear to be helpful as well, though - just like real life - they are no panacea, either, and particularly in young adults can lead to some very nasty side-effects. The bad thing about having your heart attacked by inflammatory myocarditis is that you have only one.
My advice would be to withhold words like “stupid” until one gets one’s own facts straight. Never ones to “let a crisis go to waste,” it might just be possible that that there are other, less altruistic, motives for mandating chin-diapers on a nationwide basis. Just a thought.