Indeed, if you're of sufficiently lowly social status, you're regarded as essentially criminal for doing things that aren't illegal and are even commonplace, but which have been designated as visible proof of criminality by those of greater privilege. Driving a car, for example, can be interpreted as criminal activity according to the social profile of the driver and the attendant circumstances. Wearing a mask tends to be regarded as a criminal sort of activity, which is largely why the United States refuses to acknowledge the virtue of wearing face-masks to hinder the spread of airborne disease. There's other reasons, such as systemic anti-Asian racism, but the chief reason why wearing disease masks in public has roused up so much irrational hatred is because of a mystical conviction (prevalent among Christian bigots, especially) that only a dishonest person would wish to hide their face.

And of course #anonymity is regarded as fundamentally criminal in this same dysfunctional society. Only a scoundrel would possibly want to hide their "real name"!

@Heinz
Why are these people wearing #masks?

Are they in Iran, where oil is burning, releasing toxic pollution into the atmosphere? That may be a good place to wear masks.

This world is full of hypocrites. The leaders talk about the gases released into the air, but then pollute it with their wars, which were totally avoidable.