Let's differentiate ourselves from the emotional driven leftists who seek to control us with fear
I understand what you're saying but refusing to take reasonable precautions and just pretending that the virus doesn't exist doesn't seem to be a logical solution either. Right now the US has 8,732 cases per million compared to South Korea's 254 cases per million, Japan's 151 cases per million, and Taiwan's 19 cases per million. Most Koreans, Japanese, and Taiwanese live in dense urban areas where disease spreads easily, yet they are doing better than the US at containing this thing. What do all these countries have in common? A culture of wearing masks during pandemics.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
I look forward to voting for Trump again in November. In order to do that I have to be alive, since the Democrats have the corpse vote sewn up tighter than a miser's purse strings. More importantly, it will be easier for Trump to be re-elected the lower America's CV numbers are. The lower the CV numbers the more confidence people will have in the economy and the less chance we will have of a second wave of shutdowns. Just my 0.02.
The aforementioned Asian countries also have a much lower rate of comorbidity factors such as obesity, and diabetes so simply attributing their rates solely to masks is really accurate. What else do those cultures have in common? They eat with chopsticks. Correlation is not causation.
It would also be nice to have a consistent standard across the board of how coronavirus cases and deaths are counted. Our much more liberal methodology of counting CV cases and deaths puts the US figures highly into question, especially when we are told by the "authorities" that one does not even need to be tested or confirmed as having the virus in order to be counted as someone who has died from it.
Even if one accepts the number of deaths being touted by the CDC as accurate, if you strip out the highly-avoidable nursing home fatalities, this is a bad flu season. This virus is not worthy of the destruction we have wrought on the economy and on people's lives as a result of locking down.
My original comment was simply that there isn't a binary choice between wearing masks and dying. For those who are in a vulnerable population; mask up, stay inside and protect yourself. That doesn't mean that the rest of us should have to live under house arrest or to stop living our lives as free people.
I have no problem wearing a mask in a private business establishment if that is what is mandated by the business owner (even though it is really just theater), but I am not going to wear a mask outdoors. If that frightens any of the karens, then they should avoid those of us who aren't wearing masks outdoors.