Except they weren't pushing masks from the beginning. At the start of the pandemic Fauci explicitly said not to wear a mask because it could be more harmful than not wearing one while also stating that we needed to save masks for medical personnel, because somehow masks only work inside a hospital or something. It wasn't until April they recommended mask use to the general public and the surgeon general even made a nice little video of how to make one from a t-shirt. It's funny in February anyone wearing a mask was paranoid and now anyone wearing a mask is a sheep. It's never been more obivous than now how easy it is to control public opinion.