True enough.

Alternative take - they're legitimising the option of wearing your own mask in highly-surveilled locations.

"No officer, I wouldn't dream of trying to hide from the Freedom Facial Recognition. I'm just afraid of bat viruses and wouldn't want to spread one to children, the elderly and the immunocompromised.

And I left my phone at home because it was flat. It was flat because I didn't buy this season's iPhone 9000 yet and I'm sad."