Went to breakfast yesterday with my son and his girlfriend. We parked right in front of the restaurant. It’s only a 20 step outdoor walk to the delightful outdoor patio in the rear and there is nobody on the front sidewalk or the pedestrian way to the patio. My son tells me to mask up for the 10 second walk to the patio. I AGAIN refuse to do that and he lectures me about how rude I am, endangering other people, etc.
We immediately get seated at an open table and he and his girlfriend then take off their masks, so the total time they were “protected” was maybe 20 or 30 seconds tops.
I find I’m unable to knock any common sense into his 30 year old skull.
Why otherwise sensible people think that you are endangering yourself and others while walking without a mask on an empty sidewalk but NOT endangering yourself when sitting not far from them on the patio is beyond me.
Tell them to read the fine print on the backs of the boxes of masks they buy.
Then think about what they just read for a moment.
Explain to your son — I have no reason to think he is otherwise not an unreasonable person — that going through life in irrational fear and ignorance is no way to live.
Is it your son or has the GF “influenced” him?
Does he know you’re ‘vax’d’ so there’s no worries, on either of your part (if he is masked, he should be protected, per his reasoning, right? Likewise...if you’re ‘vax’d’, you’re protected, right?)
IIRC you’ve had the ‘vax’. Apologies, if I’ve got that wrong :-)
It has to be the education system. No critical thinking combined with government indoctrination leads to dependency on the establishment.