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@Alvafe pointed out, we have a fundamental disagreement on the definition of masks. I'm referring to N95 masks, not surgical masks.
Assuming that nuance doesn't make a difference and you are going from a government-legal angle, Your State has low transmission (even if they say its high) so it's doing well after getting people vaccinated. You live in a Blue-State? The masks are not to protect the vaccinated, it's to protect the unvaccinated. So long as you have unvaccinated mixing with vaccinated, they have to keep the mask mandates on. I never heard its to protect the vaccinated, and if everyone was vaccinated (ie you had vaccine passports to enter malls and indoor spaces), then they will remove the mask-mandate since everyone is vaccinated. However, if they do that, then you'll complain its a violation of your civil rights that you have to show a passport or you have to put a mask on? I guess rather than doing that its easier just to have everyone wear a mask rather than show a passport to see who has to wear a mask and who doesn't, right?
When I say anti-social, it means, if enough people think like you then it results in health-systems being overwhelmed, Some degree of communal mind-set is needed in order to ensure that anyone who needs to use the hospital isn't turned away because they are out of capacity. Would it be fair for me to say that if you ever got infected from covid and need to use the hospital, then please don't call 911 and just deal with it at home because of your selfish mind-set? Or, if anyone got sick from covid because you spread it to them that you will be liable for their hospital bills? Would you take ownership of that? Then your are justly entitled to your mind-set if that's the case because you are aware of the impact of your mind-set and choices with other people apart from yourself and take ownership of it. But can you really own that?
The US surgeon general stated on TV recently that going back to wearing masks was to protect the vaccinated. Why would he say something like that if the "vaccine" protects like they claim it does? It's also been stated that the vaccine mitigates your risk of dying even if you contract covid, however the claim was that the vaccine would prevent covid infection when it first came out.
As to your point on masks. I won't argue with you about certain types of masks. Even if most people had a mask such as a N95, they would not wear it properly, handle it correctly, or they would consistently use the same one everyday which defeats the purpose of it.
Furthermore, elected and health officials keep stressing the use of a face covering. However, I've seen so many instances of "do as I say, not as I do" that I cannot take any of them seriously on their mask mandate. If they don't want to follow the rules they create, then why should I be subject to them?
As for my anti-social stance and the example of overcrowded hospitals you used, I will have to disagree with your opinion. Why? Prime example is NYC. There was a huge push by them to obtain thousands of ventilators that were never used, hospital ships that were barely utilized, a massive convention center converted into a hospital that was barely used. This was during the height of the pandemic. Of course this is just one example but considering the population of NYC at the time, its a good example that the claim of over capacity hospitals wasn't such an issue.
You can assume my stance is anti-social but that's your opinion. The biggest issue I have is that a lot of people are not thinking for themselves with this virus and just buying into whatever they are being told. On top of that, the information they're believing is either ambiguous or slighted in a way to promote an agenda.
To compound it further, they're vilifying people who choose not to receive the vaccine and we see it everyday. There's talks about no fly lists, "show me your paper" mandates, and basically segregating unvaxxed and vaxxed people from society. That sounds anti-social to me. Not to mention a lot of people I've talked to or met who are pro-vaccine will castigate me and give me grief about my choice. The ironic part is how these people care so much about what I do in terms of masks and vaccines, yet on any normal day they wouldn't care or give a second thought as to my well-being or personal choices.
I stand firm in my "anti-social" opinion as you say. The virus is here to stay and be a part of our lives. They should be heading efforts to find effective treatments for it, but we all know that's not a priority since you never hear about it. It's all about masks, vaccines, and restrictions.
