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Being asked to pin a yellow star to your clothing was also a minor inconvenience.

Obviously not the same thing for a huge number of reasons. To start with, everyone is being asked to wear a mask and it has genuine health benefits. If only Republicans were asked to wear a mask just to identify themselves, then it might have some similarity.

Totalitarianism takes over your life one minor inconvenience at a time.

We have to accept all sorts of compromises just to live in a society, but especially in times of national emergency. Not all of these are creeping totalitarianism. It's an inconvenience for dog owners that they have to pick up after their dog, but it improves life for everyone else.

It's more inconvenient to be in the hospital because you can't breathe than it is to wear a mask.

When you go in a store, wouldn't you like to reduce the chance that you breathe in the virus? Wouldn't you prefer that other people were at least trying not to spread the virus to you?

Obviously not the same thing for a huge number of reasons. Not a perfect analogy but similar enough. Both are driven from politics. COVID insanity would not be taking place if it wasn't an election year. SARS, Ebola, Swine flu had a higher death rate, yet no such restriction were in place because it wasn't an election year. It's obvious scare mongering.

"wear a mask and it has genuine health benefits" There are numerous studies that refute that statement. If I'm not mistaken, someone linked them on this thread yesterday.

When you go in a store, wouldn't you like to reduce the chance that you breathe in the virus? Wouldn't you prefer that other people were at least trying not to spread the virus to you?

No, I wouldn't like to reduce my chance. I'd like to get it, produce antibodies and create herd immunity and have all this nonsense go away. I breathe in thousands of viruses everyday. One that has a 95% recovery rate doesn't worry me in the least. I also eat a strict diet of non-processed foods and take tinctures to keep my immune system healthy. I've been vaccinated for the flu once and it made me sick for 2 days. That was 25 years ago. I've had the flu once since then. (My husband also had the flu that year although he had been vaccinated due to work.) After seeing what goes on at my husband's job at a hospital, I'm rather skeptical of the medical "experts." Seems like there is a lot of vaccine and pill pushing for profit.

It's an inconvenience for dog owners that they have to pick up after their dog, but it improves life for everyone else.
If my yellow star analogy isn't exact, neither is your dog poop example. If I don't want to pick up dog poop, then I can choose not to own a dog. I cannot opt out of public contact (although I've reduced it to once a week or less).