‘Tell this to elderly people, and people with serious health conditions or immune issues.’
so who’s stopping them from wearing masks...?
Nobody is stopping them. But for someone to suggest that a mask is a sign of ‘slavery and submission’ is preposterous and unthinking.
Elder and health-compromised people - and there are LOTS of them right here on this site - have been receiving all sorts of mixed signals from their own government and from vaunted health ‘officials’.
They don’t know what to think, and there isn’t much that they can do - but a mask may help them to feel somewhat protected - and it actually MAY protect them and others to some degree, however small.
It doesn’t make any sense to try and make them feel like fools, when they are doing the best that they can with what they know.
If one has a problem with mask-wearing, they should post thoughtful science, and leave out incendiary words like ‘slavery’ and ‘submission’. It would go a lot farther.