I'm wondering if he's wearing a disguise - false nose, teeth, etc., and showing his face in that picture on purpose. That may be crediting him (or her) with more criminal savvy than they have, but it's possible and it would make sense.

It would involve giving them (have to be more than one, apart from the gender) a lotta credit, as you say. You'd have to be playing on a very high (movie-style) level.

That image, which we have no way of verifying, was projected onto our devices. The accompanying storyline: it represents him/her dropping the Covid-mask to flirt with the female receptionist at the hostel. Apart from that one slip, he was assiduously wearing it for days. If you've gone to all that trouble, then you'll know for sure that there's CCTV at the reception. Which leans towards deliberate.

It could be deliberate as in they wanted to show-off, take-a-bow, but that doesn't make a lotta sense in relation to the other actions committed to avoid surveillance.

In my mind i questioned why bother wear a mask all the time if you're wearing a prosthetic?, but the answer to that is simple: you'd wear it hide the prosthetic

The face does look almost too perfect and it has exaggerated features - large nose, cheeks, and chin. Any disguise is going to make things slightly bigger, right?

Right, the jaw looks like Michael Jackson's post-op. I'd put that down to an AI rendering, but an actual Mission Impossible style mask, as you say, it makes sense.

I don't know how easy it is to get a realistic human mask these days - ok, i searched, pretty easy - but you'd be limited in the range. To get a bespoke one done you'd need connections.

The other thing is they haven't caught him yet. Or gotten any leads/sightings. You've got all the surveillance tech, we gave that up in 9/11 & Covid - but the FBI's computer might hasn't tracked the face down from their database? Mask would explain that.

The big story here seems to be how overwhelmingly positive and supportive of the killer social media has been, even among doctors and other health care professionals. Most aren't coming right out and saying, "Well done!", but they're coming pretty close.

Right, that is the thing. Gotta be disturbing for the unaccountable higher-ups in establishment industries - the ones with dirty laundry. There are a few of them: Big-Health, Law/Insurance, deep-state Bureaucracy. You're not gonna want this inspiring copycat killings.

The whole thing has theatre written all over it. Sociologically, it's significant how much resonance it struck with the public. But like the prosthetic face, it seems too perfectly scripted. The Joker movie come to life. Which makes me wonder if it's not a game-simulation projection onto Plato's proverbial cave wall.

Ironically, it may also have consequences for Covid mask wearing. Could it go from compulsory to banned ? In both instances the reasoning will be to keep us safe. Which seems to be the reason for everything.

Below is an example of a realistic face mask.