I find it ironic you want to force people to wear masks that you admit do little or nothing to protect them from catching COVID to protect others but cannot get people to quit smoking and eating a crappy diet or exercising to protect themselves from disease. And yet we have far more people dying each year from smoking, poor diets, abusing drugs, and other risky behaviors than have ever died with COVID. COVID is likely going to be far less of a problem in the years ahead but we have more obese people (many with T2DM), people with elevated BP, people with dyslipidemia, and cancers caused by risky lifestyle choices. The result is more money for the medical establishment and a declining life expectancy after Obamacare kicked for three straight years before COVID just made a bad situation even worse. Looks to me that those rigging our so-called healthcare system in the words of Ricky Ricardo to his wife Lucy, the medical bureaucrats and the medical establishment they cater to "have some splaining to do".
Why do you find it ironic
Most people are smart enough to not smoke or vape. The rest we mandate areas where they cannot smoke or vape in public spaces like within 10 feet of a door..
Inside establishments unless designated for smoking vaping etc. So mandates mitigate second hand smoke
Just like mandates for mask wearing in public mitigate the effect an infected person on the public.
Pretty logical dude.
Now..if vapers and smokers were clogging up the hospital system and causing the hospital to be overwhelmed? Well them more might be in order.
But frankly on most issues I tend to be more libertarian.
You want to do risky behavior that only endangers yourself? Have at it as long as you have adequate insurance to pay for the consequences.
Yep. We have more people dying of those risky behaviors.
But your freedom ends when your choices impact me.
So you running around without wearing a mask and infecting my mother who dies from the infection you gave her?
Or there are so many a many uncacvibated covid patients that tge hospital cannot do my patients heart surgery or back surgery?
Different story.
Now my buddy had a good idea. Every non vaxxer signs an affidavit that they are foregoing any medical treatment for covid that entails a hospital stay. And so they agree to stick if out and die at home if it comes to that...I could probably live with that.
But that's not what they do. Invaccinated run around my town making all sorts of claims about how they had it already..can't get it again..they kicked its but the first time..Yada yada..
Then they get covid again..end up in the hospital begging for everything and anything to help them.
Then suddenly the science and providers they disparaged are expected to save them.