[rwcarlsen]

We allow people to make personal choices all the time that negatively impact others. I am acknowledging the gray area and have been the entire time. I'm saying that on the particular issue of seatbelts (and mask wearing) - I prefer to let people make their own choices being fully aware that it could cause some amount indirect harm to others. Maybe I hate the color yellow - people can still have yellow cars. I hate breathing in second-hand smoke, but I don't think people should be disallowed from smoking everywhere. I pay into entitlement programs that help support medical costs for people that voluntarily engaged in unsafe activities that caused their health problems. I still think those people should be allowed to make those choices.

[nicetryguy]

> I prefer to let people make their own choices being fully aware that it could cause some amount indirect harm to others.

Some indirect harm? This is life or death for older and immunocompromised people. You are a monster. I can't fathom your inhumanity.

[rwcarlsen]

You really want covid to be categorically different than things we engage with every day and have since humans first began to walk the earth - but it really isn't. We make these sort of tradeoffs and engage with this sort of dilemma constantly. Nothing new or earth-shattering.