Reply To: Fauci’s Fraudulent Fearmongering

@yserbius123, let me clear a few misunderstandings:

1. You admit that wearing a mask will protect other people from COVID-19, yet you refuse to wear a mask because it’s a minor inconvenience. That’s your position in a nutshell.

That is absolutely not my position.
The reason I brought up the flu analogy is to prove that people cannot be forced in all instances to take actions against their will to protect others. As terrible as it may sound, this rule is necessary for a functioning society.
So why did I complain about how uncomfortable masks are, before I asked the flu question?
Let me provide you with some context:
In https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1925736/watch-biden-says-he-wants-nation-to-wear-masks-for-100-days.html someone claimed that “All chareidim in EY seem to manage masks”, a comment that made me make a YWN account, correct this nonsense and write a few posts in the CR about how uncomfortable masks are. I then left the thread only to come back later for an attempt to explain the anti-mandatory-masking position in a more fact-based way. I never used inconvenience as an argument since.
(I did point out that inconvenience is a matter of opinion, but only because you kept insisting that it’s not. I did not use that as argument.)

2.Please defend that position

That’s not how it works.
I am not asking you for anything. You can wear a mask, wear two masks or wear none at all, I honestly don’t care.
You however, are telling me to mask, therefore the burden of proof is on you.
Ah, but this is case of saving lives you say? I have shown you that that is not always a valid argument, especially not in the case of masking.
Now the burden of proof is yours again.
I’m all ears.