What is the motivation behind being anti-mask?

Personal freedom. Very American "you can't tell me what to do" kind of mentality. That and that Trump isn't wearing a mask so if you're pro-Trump you will often become anti-mask. 

Yeah seems so,looked it up and even in 1918 there was an anti mask league in San Francisco while the spanish flu ravished the world.

3,862 positive cases (+87.0%) with 378k tests (+18.1%).

On average there were 552 positive cases a day (or 644 if you discard Sunday).

331 in ICU (-18.5%)

Terrible week due to the slaughterhouse outbreak. Berlin also isn't looking very good. The rest of the country seems fine.
The administrative districts in which the slaughterhouse is located and the neighbouring district where a lot of the workers are living are back in lockdown.
7,000 people from that area are now in quarantine.

Numbers should be significantly lower next week.

About personal freedom:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/style/face-mask-burqa-ban.html

While face coverings are fast becoming the norm to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, visible on city streets and public transportation everywhere, the global politics that surround them are more complicated than ever — a reflection not just of this current crisis, but also of broader values and stereotypes.

This is especially true in the European Union, where the laws informally known as “burqa bans” that forbid full-face coverings, often on the basis of public safety, are being called into question.

France prohibits the wearing of clothing intended to hide the face in public spaces, despite the fact that masks are now being required on public transportation and in high schools. The French interior ministry confirmed to The Times that the face coverings rule of 2010 would stay in place. (A separate 2004 ban prohibits head scarves in public schools, referring to the religious neutrality of state institutions.)

The result is a Catch-22. Those who do not wear a mask can be fined, as can those who violate the face-covering law.


https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-exposed-real-reasons-france-burqa-ban-200514105218122.html

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, France is faced with a paradox: It has just made the wearing of masks compulsory in certain public spaces, but maintained the years-long ban on Muslim full-face veils. This suggests, as the Washington Post recently noted, "if an observant Muslim woman wanted to get on the Paris Metro, she would be required to remove her burqa and replace it with a mask". 


Other places that previously (and still) outlawed face coverings in public:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/world/europe/quebec-burqa-ban-europe.html

We all know that only criminals wear masks

Every time I think I've seen the maximum potential of human stupidity, America proves me wrong.

Imagine protesting against wearing a mask DURING A FUCKING PANDEMIC.

EDIT: I should probably clarify I don't mean to imply that all Americans are stupid, just these absolute morons.

And people that take it seriously. I took a peek into mobility data differences in the USA, the difference is huge.

District of Columbia takes it the most serious, while Wyoming is having a party with their time off work



I used this site to combine mobility data with current trends
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/16/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s


The top number is how much more people stay at home compared to the baseline for each state.
The bottom number is the average percentage of Retail & Recreation, Grocery & Pharmacy, Transit stations and Workplaces.

DC, +19% residential, avg of -50 Retail/Rec, -18 Grocery/Pharm, -63 Transit and -58 Workplaces = -47.25
Wyoming, +3% residential, avg of +4 Retail/Rec, +25 Grocery/Pharm, +41 Transit and -25 Workplaces = +11.25

Looks like South Dakota is at risk of becoming another red state between Wyoming and Iowa.

New York is still avoiding trouble.

A third vaccine candidate enters Phase III trials.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html

8 more are in Phase II and 10 are in Phase I.

The strategy Florida is going with is the "we don't need to lock down we are going to be open, mandatory face masks we'll do that"  strategy.