se2015 – the difference between supermarkets and other places is that it is a place that is difficult for high risk people to avoid and any place that they are not able to easily avoid is a place to practice extra caution. If you know you will be around high risk people, you have an obligation to take as many precautions as possible/needed.
People deciding that anyone without a mask is irresponsible is their problem. I have to say I am tired of wearing masks only so that people don’t have to have a nervous breakdown. I don’t mind wearing one to keep a place germ free, but to wear one because you are hyper sensitive in a way that I have not found backed by science is not fair. I will ALWAYS wear a mask in places where people cannot easily avoid so they can have minimal chance of getting sick. But it is not responsible for them to go to places where they do not need to be if they are guarding their health. It is their responsibility to avoid places where people are gathering. If they are at risk and chose to go to places like that, I am not sure how that is anyone elses responsibility.
I hear what you are saying in regard to people not wearing masks and therefore making other people at risk by making the environment unsafe for them. I am not sure that is true. And I am pretty sure your illustration is off. They are at risk because this virus is unpredictable, not because of me. And if they are at risk, they have no business being inside a shul without proper protection. I liken it to the difference between saying classmates of a child with peanut allergies should not eat peanuts in school. But it is not appropriate to say nobody anywhere should ever eat peanuts in shul in case a person with allergies walks in one day. If you are at risk, it is your job to be careful. And everyone who cross paths with you needs to be careful as well. And that includes every person who enters a store, bank, your building or office. But to say every joe schmo needs to wear masks everywhere is baseless. I don’t mind going an extra mile, but you are wrong to expect people to cater to overinflated standards, and to call them murderers when they don’t.
P.S. Lest it not be clear – I am in complete disagreement with Common Saychels self centered approach.