[familyop]

"What if we just think we are being manipulated? Are we narcissistic to insist on personal freedoms?"

No, for that reason, not at all. There are exceptions.

On masks in some of the Middle Eastern countries, the virus tends to spread most easily between people in small spaces (e.g., family members).

[Persevero]

In response your point about middle eastern spread, ok. It spreads in families.

The women are masked outside and I guess the men aren’t.

And they die in equal numbers.

Thus masks are pointless. Unless you have another thing to say about how they are helping?

Because if they are helping them the women who have been very thoroughly masked outside since way before this virus even started would be contracting and dying way less often than men.

We all have our masks off at home. So that’s irrelevant for comparison.