I see your point, but why do you think it is either/or?
If this is a comparatively minor issue compared to air, water, food, why do we only hear from you on this and not those other things?
By extension, therefore, do you think your true values may have been subverted? Could your thoughts on masks therefore be coming from them via you?
If everything they do and say is in their own interest, could this not be an information campaign, yet again, to not look after your own interests? Even if it is coming from only one sector of the elite? (Elite sectoral interests)?
Is this just an intra-elite conflict in which the best thing to do is simply look after yourself and ignore them?
Why self-destruct (and those you mix with) at their behest?
Every school of thought is catered to, by the system apart from, perhaps, yours and my way of thinking, but they will keep trying to look for entries - and for divisions.