If masks don't cause economic destruction, then guns cause crimes.
If masks work so well, why did we have to lockdown the entire nation to begin with? We could have just mandated masks and continued on. Businesses could have stayed open and people could have kept their jobs.
And if the masks work so well, why didn't we give them to all of the prisoners already locked up to keep from having to let them all out of jails and prisons?
If you wear a mask and it works so well, why do I need to wear one? You're protected already.
And don't give me this flattening the curve BS. We're way beyond flattening the curve into trying to find a "cure". There is no cure for this. It's a virus.
Then it went from social distancing to stay at home until we say you can come out.
From weeks to "we don't know how many months it will be".
From we're all in this together to "squeal on your neighbors and local businesses so we can throw them in the jails we just emptied".
But what fries me the most, that you conveniently left out of your "rationale", is if masks work, why did the same politicians and so-called health experts who demanded they we wear masks, allow hundreds of thousands of riff-raff out to riot, loot and burn the cities down without saying a thing?
The kid mayor of Minneapolis where this all started tried to say that and he was booed off of his stage. In Manhattan, the DA said he would not prosecute rioters for the "sake of justice" but would prosecute those protesting the wearing of masks and the restrictions on their constitutional freedoms.
And in Washington state, the subject of this thread, the unicorn and pixie dust mayor of Seattle just let these thugs have their way with downtown Seattle and the 3rd police precinct to form the nation of Chaz or Chop or whatever but said it was okay not to wear a mask if you were BLM.
The frickin' governor of Washington, that brilliant rocket scientist, Jay Inslee, wasn't even aware that part of his state was a different country.
None of this is about masks and the virus but all about politics, political egos and fools.
Joe Biden just proclaimed that he would federalize the wearing of masks if elected. I'm sure with your sentiments and "logic" about wearing masks, you'll vote for him. After all, Biden has been in government for over 45 years and backs BLM, an avowed communist front group for George Soros and the democrat Marxists. He knows about controlling the behavior of populations with tyrannical dictates.
Because that's part of their anarchy-tyranny. As you also saw, many law abiding people were arrested for defending their propery, defending public property, trying to drive out of a dangerous situation etc. The elite would like to throw law abiding people in jail (e.g. a lawful gun owner like me) and let thugs roam free with their weapons including guns.
The desire for anarchy-tyranny (see decades of writing by Sam Francis) is very real. The effectiveness of wearing a mask is real as well. One has nothing to do with the other. If you think it does, then you are rationalizing.