It adds up to significant unnecessary suffering. It’s clear to me that doing, e.g., human challenge vaccine trials was a much more cost-effective measure (nowadays just get the bloody vaccine and be done with pandemic), and masks are just a weak band-aid for which I have not seen much more evidence since the Slatestarcodex review (which called CDC on its bullshit very early: masks probably help a bit, but not much, and the evidence is weak either way), and they are being used first and foremost as a political signaling and psychological comfort device (remember the whole “masks more effective than vaccines” rhetoric).

Wearing a mask is not suffering. If you think this then you have a badly misconstrued idea of what the word suffering means.

Now you're just gaslighting.

You wrote:

It adds up to significant unnecessary suffering.

The it, I assume, refers to the topic at hand. Namely wearing masks. It does not in any way add up to suffering.