The virus will never go away. There's no reason to live in perpetual fear.
Masks may work, but mask mandates don't work. You can't force people to do something they don't like 24/7. They will take off the mask when you're not looking, or they will wear it in a bad way on purpose. Specially when it comes to kids.
Unpopular but necessary laws exist. Also, I’m pretty sure that mask mandates weren’t rejected by a majority of the population, but a vocal minority instead.
No, the police should not be, and generally are not, involved in most non-criminal laws.
Throughout history, there has been no law so vile that police cannot be found who are willing to enforce that law.
edit: I guess I do agree with you that they should not be involved. But my point is that laws tend to give police "justification" to use force, whether they're supposed to or not. I am not an anarchist, we do need laws, but I think it's important that we remember who will be enforcing them when new ones are suggested.
Famously alcohol ban didn't work in America. Famously the left argues that laws against drugs don't work. Famously the left says that if you ban abortion it will just go underground.
I find this take obnoxious. I don't live in perpetual fear of busses, but I also don't go for a casual twilight stroll in the middle of a bus lane.
I'm not sure what the end-game for COVID is, but I'm exceedingly willing to take some minor precautions while cases and hospitalizations are rising and hundreds of Americans are dying daily.
>I'm not sure what the end-game for COVID is, but I'm exceedingly willing to take some minor precautions while cases and hospitalizations are rising and hundreds of Americans are dying daily.
I find this take obnoxious. I'm not sure what the end-game for COVID is, but I'm exceedingly unwilling to carry out performative charades that have not been scientifically proven to have any impact on my health or the health of my fellow Americans.
"At Least Two Million Children Have Lost a Parent or Grandparent Caregiver to COVID"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/at-least-two-mill...
Not necessarily. Immunocompromise, have you heard of it?
That kind of hyperbole serves no one.
It looks like one community in MA reinstated the mask mandate for town-owned buildings some time after the mask mandate had been lifted. That's different than being forced to wear a mask everywhere in public in perpetuity. If a person doesn't like wearing a mask, then they're free to not wear one and free to not go to town-owned buildings.
I have a 3 year old that is starting preschool in a few months in California. It's not at all clear that mask requirements will be removed for young children here anytime in the next couple of years.
I'm liberal on most issues and supported early covid interventions, but at this point, frankly, I feel that her wellbeing is being sacrificed for the sake of superstitious/quasi-religious beliefs.