Why is “wear a mask” such a burden for so many?

This morning, I had an email notification from a popular neighborhood-based social media platform that I use casually; someone had posted a link to an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal and a conversation thread about mask mandates had ensued. There were about a half-dozen comments, and most seemed to be along the lines of, “Masks don’t stop smoke, and the virus is smaller than smoke particles, so masks…