If you wear a mask to prevent unvaccinated people from contracting a potentially lethal contagious disease, that's a clear win for morality.

I can understand a moral argument to be made for pushing back against authoritarian abuse of power. Ignoring the consensus of the entire field of medicine during a global pandemic is not that argument.

So, wearing a mask in certain situations is a restriction to freedom? As a society, we do all kinds of things to take care of each other. We respect traffic laws, we defecate in toilets, we don't litter, etc... I just don't get how a simple act of caution to take care of ourselves and our neighbors is any different (with respect to "freedom") than any of these other actions that we do every day.

> We respect traffic laws, we defecate in toilets, we don't litter, etc

You gaslighting Californians?

With an infectious disease you are putting other people at risk. You wanna smoke or skydive, go nuts. But wear a damn mask.

Masks catch the moisture in your breath. It's like covering your mouth when you sneeze.

Imagine someone walks in a room where you are eating, sits in the seat next to you and starts sneezing without covering their mouth.

"Excuse me" you say, "could you cover your mouth? I'm eating here."

"Sorry," they say "I prefer a risk-filled existence over a safe, constrained one."

Kinda missing the point there, friend.

Nope. Or sure I will wear one if I have the sniffles, or other signs of a cold or flu. Though most likely I’ll just stay home because I’m sick and I don’t want to go anywhere.

Mask mandates are unnecessary. It is a bunch of elitists in urban areas trying to be big brother.

If a store owner is worried about it, they can mandate for their store.

People don’t care, and you can try to guilt them into caring with crap like this, but you will fail to do anything but look like an elitist donkey.

Sorry to break it to you, but you are a selfish person who won't even do the bare minimum to prevent spreading the illness to other at-risk people.