For the US, you pretty much have to go all-in on calling Covid a Chinese bioweapon, and I'm not talking about speeches, but things like getting the military to wear masks in order to safeguard them from an alleged bioweapon. You need a lot of "top scientists and intelligence officers have proven without a shadow of a doubt Covid came from a Chinese lab as a bioweapon" and US representatives pontificating in the UN on how China needs to pay reparations for loss of life due to Covid. The atmosphere of the country needs to be that of already being at war with China with Covid being a massive Chinese biological attack. In this context, not wearing a mask means trafficking with the enemy that the US is at war with and thus, a sign of betrayal. And even with this, I don't think most GOP presidents could pull it off, let along a Democrat president. But Trump? Yeah, I think he could pull it off.
For the US, you pretty much have to go all-in on calling Covid a Chinese bioweapon, and I'm not talking about speeches, but things like getting the military to wear masks in order to safeguard them from an alleged bioweapon. You need a lot of "top scientists and intelligence officers have proven without a shadow of a doubt Covid came from a Chinese lab as a bioweapon" and US representatives pontificating in the UN on how China needs to pay reparations for loss of life due to Covid. The atmosphere of the country needs to be that of already being at war with China with Covid being a massive Chinese biological attack. In this context, not wearing a mask means trafficking with the enemy that the US is at war with and thus, a sign of betrayal. And even with this, I don't think most GOP presidents could pull it off, let along a Democrat president. But Trump? Yeah, I think he could pull it off.