I mentioned near the start of the development the value of wearing masks. During Occupy masks were worn for anonymity and safety and other reasons, and laws were passed to make it illegal in my areas. Now they are worn everywhere.
All of these bullshit mask laws are still on the books worldwide since decades more. They will happily jail, charge, guilty, imprison you if they want, in fact they must do so under their own spoken drone guise of all equal no discretion exceptions etc. They will also claim sovereign immunity when you try to sue them for the debilitating viral damage havoc on your body finance mind and life (or by your fam when you're dead) because their "law" forbade you from wearing mask upon "legal" threat of jail/death. None of this legal farce regarding masks has made it to mainstream news. Else they'd have to remove their laws from their books. They hate removing their laws over you.
some in power could have wanted to heal some of the harm
They don't, else they would. Till recant, repent, and renew, a life of irrelevance afforded them by new revolution[aries] may be their fate. History usually treated them much worse.