I totally disagree.
The only time rules are at all acceptable is if they have no negatives, (meaning they are more positive than negative).
For example, "first come, first serve" is a universal rule we all accept as preventing the strong from harming the weak.
When I let an elderly or disabled go ahead of me, that is my choice, not a rule being imposed arbitrarily.
Mask are not just slightly imperfect, but horrendous.
It is not just that they only slightly reduce the viral load to others, but that by slowing down infection rates even a little, they actually cause far more death.
That is because the goal to minimize death in most epidemics, relies on achieving herd immunity rates as quickly as possible.
Just slowing the infection rate means the epidemic can't end, goes on possibly forever, and that greatly increases the death total.
Just go back to Gen. Washington ordering deliberate infection of his continental army with smallpox, (variolation), in 1777.
The quicker you get an epidemic over, the least deaths you have as a result.
The longer you let an epidemic drag on, the more deaths you have as a result.
This article is wrong to call variolation a "vaccination".
It is deliberate infection.
Vaccine were not invented for almost 30 more years.
Again, the point against masks is NOT about them not being 100% effective.
The point is that the only useful strategies for epidemics are quick.
Mask are useful if the quick strategy of full quarantine is being used.
But if you are not doing full quarantine, then the quick strategy of deliberate acceleration of infection is your only other choice.
Social distancing and masks to "flatten the curve" is not a valid or useful strategy.
It does not work, can not end any epidemic, and results in the largest possible death result.