My Dad lives in France and said the same.
It seems the policy on masks and vaccines is also helping Macron in the lead up to the Presidential Election, despite some protests and the French being traditionally vaccine sceptic (though part of that is the horrendous red tape that surrounded them)...
My clumsy point was that the OP just asked if masks should be mandatory, without saying how or where. Pre-Covid there was plenty of bad, loophole filled legislation that hadn't properly been scrutinised by parliamentary committees because that seems to have gone out of fashion now. During Covid...
Mandatory how exactly?
Absolutely agree they need to return on public transport, shops and to a degree in schools but what about pubs, clubs, restaurants. All are indoors and crowded but you simply cannot wear one and consume food and drink. If we go back to table service only and mask wearing...