[ScottFree]

Your premise is flawed. Yellow shirts don't kill people. Not wearing a mask does not kill people. Letting a TSA officer fondle your groin doesn't save people's lives. It's all security theater.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

[happytoexplain]

>"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Whether or not you think masks help, this is wildly over-dramatic thing to say about an order to wear a mask in public temporarily. I'd even say it disrespects the quote.

[coding123]

We also have a society that requires clothing. And that doesn't even KILL people. Yet we handcuff -> jail nudists anyway. One major exception is pretty much 97% of the state of Oregon, where that is 100% legal.

[andrewacove]

Your response is flawed. Not wearing a mask is not an essential liberty.

And yes, if large numbers of Americans don't wear masks, that will kill more people than would die if we all wore our masks. It's not theater.

[enraged_camel]

>> Not wearing a mask does not kill people.

This is demonstrably false, as we now know for a fact that wearing a mask does reduce the risk of both catching the virus yourself and transmitting it to other people. Even if you don't care about your own well-being, common courtesy dictates you should care about the well-being of others. Failing to do so may indeed get them killed.

[oblio]

It's a mask! Not handcuffs!

Cut the clichés.