I think we should stop calling the mandated face coverings "masks" and instead refer to them as "gags". A mask seems to refer to a medically useful device to prevent droplet spread from a health care worker to a patient during surgery or other situation with high possibility of cross contamination OR a facial covering designed to obscure facial features. When a "face covering" is humiliatingly "ordered" to be used during ordinary activities where people are expected to interact it naturally stifles there ability to communicate, be heard and to feel the dignity of social interaction. In this context the facial covering inhibits free speech and silences people endangering their mental health, social acuity and ability to communicate. This type of "face covering" is not a mask it is a GAG.
Mask mandates are unconstitutional "GAG orders" on free people and should be relentlessly opposed imho.
My definition was the result of a Go ogle search but appears to match my recollection of the word's meaning!