Reposting this because you're not going to make it all the way through the education I just unloaded on you:

Fun fact time.

You know what masks definitely stop?

Facial recognition technology.

But you never thought of that, did you, because you were in such an ass-busting rush to "own the libs." But if you've ever wondered how facial recognition technology was deployed so effectively after Jan 6, well. Now you know. It really was a bunch of lay people downloading footage from the news and running it through models trained on publicly available surveillance data. If you collectively had been in the habit of wearing masks regularly, like we were, it wouldn't have been nearly as easy to peg people as it was.