>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 <
Bingo! The reason you don’t know at which point masks are mandatory is because there is no point.
So we’re back to square one:
Mandatory masks; always or never?
>and the so-called “rights” (a secular invention with no parallel in the Torah)<
Replace “rights” with “no chiyuv of VeNishmartem”.
>being violated are on a very small scale.<
Again, at what point is it a big scale?
>It is a matter of opinion that masks are disruptive to lives It’s a matter of fact that they aren’t.<
Disruption to our lives is a matter of opinion.
There is a reason most people are cannot wait to dispose of their masks. (Are you not one of them?)
What others said or your brilliant anti-fog techniques are irrelevant.
>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.<
Ibid.
>Normal lives can be lived even when wearing a mask. That isn’t a matter of opinion,<
Ibid.
> it’s a simple fact proven by millions on a daily basis.<
Millions of people are in jail, does that mean they are living a normal life?
>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<
The two are as comparable as mandatory masking and mandatory straightjackets.
By the way, we still have a right to sober driving even though we might kill.
>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.<
We have lost, I have lost.
But the correct response is to allow our elders to stay at home comfortably until they can get vaccinated and wearing a mask if we must be in close proximity with them (In that case I am pro-mask).
We would have to do this even we all masked up, because remember, masks slow the spread but do not stop it.