1. This also addresses one “circle.”
2. The cloth mask is not for your protection. It’s supposed to protect others from you.
3. A false sense of security is still a sense of security. Which is the point. If priority one is re-establishing the economy, because this was all a big overreaction, then acquiescing you’re wearing the mask is the best way to promote consumer security and get people back out spending money, at least that’s the conclusion reached by many businesses.
4. Finally, if the virus is nbd, only dangerous to old people, then it’s not a false sense of security. You’re just correcting your previous mistaken belief that being out in public puts you in danger. Unless you’re old.