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Originally Posted by mrducks
Does it have anything to do with there not being any verification of who is vaccinated and who is unvaccinated? Since a large enough percentage of the general population in the US fall into both the anti-vax and anti-mask categories, you get a situation where these people are incentivized to lie and thus you now need to implement a a blanket policy to enforce masks on everyone to close the easily exploitable loophole?
Also, the government has a role in protecting the general population. When enough of them are unvaccinated and refuse to wear masks, they need to be treated like toddlers so everyone needs to wear a mask to protect the a significant percentage of the population, even if they don't care about protecting themselves. Similar to seatbelt laws.
The vaccines are wonderful and they protect you exceptionally well from illness and death. An argument for lockdowns, mask mandates, etc because of the unvaccinated is denying the very real protection that the vaccines provide.
The government only has a (debatable) role in
informing the general population of the risks of every day life. Everything beyond that is the responsibilty of the individual. When a cure for a disease is available and some choose not to take it it is not the responsibility of the government to mandate the cure. We disagree where you say they need to be treated like toddlers when I say they need to be ignored.
Seatbelt laws are a perfect example of this because I am at no risk from those who choose to stupidly not wear seatbelts, unless the very minuscule chance that a non-seatbelt wearing individual is ejected from their car and catapulted into me injuring or killing me. I don’t concern myself with that risk.