Kings of false equivalence. The reason most people wear seatbelts is because they risk getting a ticket if they don't. The chances of getting into a car wreck where the seatbelt might save your life is probably similar to your chances of dying from covid. So low it's almost not worth talking about. But we are forced to take precautions because other people think they know what's best for us. It's the same with mask wearing. The data does not show that masks help, but some people believe they do, and feel the need to force others to wear them. Just like I don't wear my seatbelt to save my life from the zero fatal accidents I've been involved in, I don't wear a mask to save myself, or anyone around me, from dying from the covid I don't have, and they are very unlikely to have. I wear them because I would not be able to enter businesses if I didn't.
It is a slippery slope, and we can argue it because it is happening. Our rights to decide for ourselves the best course of action to take are being taken away from us, one by one, by people who think they know better. Many times it's little things, like seat belts, that pretty rarely cause more harm than good. Viruses, however, are a reality, a force of nature that aren't going to stop. The reactions of the "authorities" in this situation have been a complete disaster, worse than if we had done nothing. But you people still want to push this idea of masking and social distancing, and testing and tracing, like they make any difference all while mocking those of us who know better, I can't even think of words to describe how low my opinion is of you. It's like a sort of completely unselfaware, aggressive idiocy, but worse, like your aggressiveness, to you, is somehow self-justifying.
People who actually hold conservative values don't have to worry about STD's. But comparing that to what you think conservatives think about covid simply shines a light down into the depths of your ignorance. Literally no one really thinks covid is fake, no one thinks std's are fake. But the reaction to covid would be more on par with forcing people to prove to some bureaucrat that they are using protection every time they have sex, right before the do. I'm sure you'd welcome that sort of government invasion into our personal lives, but I wouldn't.
I will take the precautions I deem necessary to protect myself from disease. I expect those around me to do the same. And I am willing to take my chances even if they don't. I don't need a bunch of pro-government, crybaby, ignoramuses shaming me for not buying the same incorrect things they whole-heartedly believe in.
