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Also, according to the article, "some daycare educators had been suspicious of these grey and blue masks for a while because they felt like they were swallowing cat hair while wearing them."

People must have been ordered to wear them; who would wear these by choice?

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This is why Governments shouldn't be allowed to force these sort of things. Governments can be and often are wrong.

Also add to this potential influence by malicious actors.

And governments are also largely immune (pun intended) from prosecution once their error is revealed.

Who governs the government!? Surely a disarmed population.

Give an example of an armed population which has effectively governed its government.

Well, at the moment that hardly seems relevant since the arms governments worldwide have are SO radically powerful as to completely imbalance the relationship. Not merely physical are their weapons either.

Let me just say, it's nice to see a sane comment every once in a while. The world seems to have gone completely off the deep end and is throwing itself at the mercy of petty authoritarian bureaucrats.

The government didn't force anyone to use these masks in particular, they were just given for free. Hospitals sometimes forced you to use their own masks when entering the premise but even private hospitals did that on their own, but in daycares and schools these just happened to be free so people use them to save money.

What? That is a genuinely optimistic statement.

The "forcing" way through brute shaming and various 'strict guidelines of social distancing'

Much forcing all around...

I live in the province in question.

The issue isn't wearing masks, it's specifically those masks, which around I think around 1% of the masks in circulation.

All other masks are fine. By and large, the government itself doesn't force anyone to wear those masks instead of others.

Thankfully I'm starting to read sane comments again. Yes.

No, people weren't ordered to wear them. Daycare educators are largely independent of the government beyond inspections every few months and heavy subsidies.

The masks were given for free, and there is a mask mandate. Daycares used free government provided masks instead of their own to save money.

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