Wearing mask do really help to lessen or reduce the transmission of the virus not just covid19 but also other transmittable diseases. I'm sure that in most countries that has many cases, there's a blame game to the government by its people.
The people has their rights to say whatever they say but it's a fact that it will never help. They can criticize but not up to the point that they will divide the people with the fight against the virus, they can later on criticize badly if they want to when the covid's gone.
Masks indeed can help reduce the transmission of the virus.
However, people do not use masks properly and they touch the mask from the wrong sites.
This creates more transmission and actually masks do more harm than good...