@daas-yochid Let’s get this out of the way, on the two sides of this argument, pro-death and anti-COVID, there’s really only evidence to back the anti-COVID side. For one, you’re getting pedantic about minor details in order to avoid addressing my points. Whether Hatzalah was called or almost is irrelevant when the facts remain that masks are not physically dangerous but not wearing masks are.
If you want to quote a source about masks and asthma, don’t tell me “just google it” when “just googling it” exclusively brings up stuff that directly contradicts your main point. Tell me where to look.
I woud tell you to speak to rabbonim and mechanchim who don’t insist on masks and ask them the reasons, in a sincere way, but I’m afraid you are not able to drop your bias and hear real answers and accept that there’s another side.
Yeah, I’ve spoken with mechanchim and Rabbonim. All the Rabbonim in my city have spoken again and again how important it is to wear masks to shul. As did the Rabbonim in nearly every other place I know of, except for those that are pro-death. Even the New York Times, in its recent anti-Semitic hit piece about COVID and Israeli Chareidim, admitted that the Rabbonim are constantly asking people to wear masks. Every non-dorming Yeshiva near me has strict mask rules. I believe it was Rav Yaakov Bender SHLITA that was approached by people asking him about the psychological effects of wearing masks and he bluntly said “There’s no increase in suicides”. If you’re going to be pro-death, you’re going to have to have a better argument than “Well some Rabbonim say it’s OK”.
@MadeAliya Oh that. Yeah, I wear glasses with my mask. If you’re constantly fogging up, you have to get a different mask. Or just take them off and clean them. I’ve never found it anything more than a minor inconvenience. I think if we’re making a comparison to being anti-COVID or pro-death, COVID is a little more inconvenient than a couple of minutes of having foggy glasses in shul.