When a slave was fitted with a mask, it was locked in place. The slave could not reat or drink until the enslaver took the mask off him. This kept the slave from fleeing because he would be unable to nourish himself during his attempted flight.

Where the slave was limited to where he could go with the mask, today, persons under mask mandates are limited to where they can go without a mask. In both cases, a person’s liberty is infringed by the mask.

The slave mask further served to identify its wearer as an enslaved person. That symbolism applies to the masks adorning obedient adherents to mask mandates today. Government officials admit that wearing masks is primarily symbolic.
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That means that the mask symbolizes that you are being compelled against your will to obey the dictates of the technocrats. In essence, the mask symbolizes your willingness to be subjugated and do what you are told.
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The mandatory use of face masks during the current health panic fashion the citizenry as slaves. As symbols of enslavement,

Masks deprive us of oxygen. They produce hypoxia, leading us to a state of physical and mental weakness in which the population is more prone to ideological brainwashing and less capable of ascertaining the degree to which they are oppressed.
Masks are symbols of submission. Their medical practicality is very questionable, yet people are forced to wear them. Despotism is established in the forced compliance of arbitrary rules. Caligula planned to make his horse a consul just because he could.
Masks are the lurid fetish of power. Given that face masks feature prominently in bondage and sado-masochism (BDSM) role play, which is invested in master-slave dynamics, can we not see the powerful psychological element of subjugation that they represent for those who are forced to wear them? Can we consider the perverted delight that the sight of these mask wearers brings to the schemers of these policies?