To be fair, even the WHO said that masks are useless. I remember, our government told us for days - when being asked by reporters over and over again - that we can wear them, but they are useless. Then some countries started to mandate them, the WHO (the FUCKING WHO) said oh wait, actually, it's super good, you should wear them, and like the next day our government said that they are mandatory in shops.
We also had a special time (9-12 am) when ONLY people older than 65+ could visit shops (but they couldn't visit any other time). You wouldn't believe how many old motherfucker did not care about this, nor about the masks. Like, the main reason we have this problem is because they are dangered. We would be fine with it - sure, the extreme cases are getting a lot of publicity but younger people die from influenza as well.
Non-Asian countries just do not have that level of discipline.
Also, my main ideology is that if you are endangered, do yourself a favor and protect yourself first, THEN complain about others being inconsiderate. I've seen so many posts crying about them having this and that kind of health problems, which make them weakened against Covid, but if they were to wear proper masks, and looked after themselves, they would be fine.