[yebyen]

> Most people just don't like being told what to do

Bingo. I live in a "blue part" of red Indiana and this is the conclusion I've come to as well. It's extremely frustrating knowing that masks work when everyone wears them, but you are basically powerless to make a change when 90% of the people around you don't wear a mask at all, and 9 of 10 remaining folks that do wear one aren't wearing it correctly. I imagine that most of my neighbors are good folks that want to do something to help, but you can't control the people around you.

If we could simply grant that "we don't like being told what to do" at the outset of the argument, I think we'd get a lot further in the national conversation. But "you can't tell me what to do" isn't a winning legal argument, so we get religious objections, and bogus "harm of the vaccine" studies with even more outrageous arguments, simply because those people who didn't like the idea of a mandate are smart enough to know they actually stand a chance in court with those arguments.