If you aren't wearing an N95 mask you're not maximising...

If you aren't wearing an N95 mask you're not maximising protection.

Those surgical masks won't stop side entry of virus.

Insofar as the OP, there's a good case for personal responsible action. I don't see it as capitulation of personal freedoms.

The free expressions and privacy guarantees we have lost to a so called "liberal" party over successive reigns are more of a concern to me. If a so called libertarian party stymies our speak, our mongrel, our bias, our human frailties and harvests our internet transactions, etc, what chance with vociferous socialism and woke as an alternative.