@madealiyah I thought I addressed most of these, but let me be a little clearer.
- Masks should be mandatory forever as they prevent the flu and other viruses. No because COVID is 100 times worse than the flu
- At what point does the danger override your rights, and why then? I don’t know. But we are very very far from that point as the danger is currently extremely acute and the so-called “rights” (a secular invention with no parallel in the Torah) being violated are on a very small scale.
- It is a matter of opinion that masks are disruptive to lives It’s a matter of fact that they aren’t. A major portion of this thread has been me asking what sort of disruptions are caused by masks. So far all of the examples have either been one in ten-thousand cases (i.e. people with serious breathing or anxiety problems) or pale in comparison to the dangers of COVID (i.e. having to work harder to make yourself understood or recognized, or cleaning your glasses frequently).
- Flu is forever or not I will discuss this with you when daily COVID deaths begin to approach daily flu deaths and stay that way. Until that time, there is no comparison between the two illnesses.
- Drunk-driving is an active offence. Not masking is passive and is part of living a normal life. Normal lives can be lived even when wearing a mask. That isn’t a matter of opinion, it’s a simple fact proven by millions on a daily basis. Not wearing a mask is dangerous like drunk driving is dangerous. The point of the moshol was that it’s not a “right” to drive drunk, even if being sober is difficult, because it puts others in danger
- Pro-death I started saying that on this thread to provoke a reaction and it seems to have worked. Have we not lost enough friends and family to COVID? Shouldn’t we be doing what’s possible to mitigate that? You seem to disagree. You are saying that there are things that you find uncomfortable, so you won’t do them even if it means that it can cause a massive difference in this horrific mageifa.