The new public health despotism
It’s a social contract. A disease that has killed more people in this country than the civil war could have been alleviated significantly had people agreed to wear masks and get vaccinated.<p>Not wearing a mask projects “I don’t care if you live or die”, and is also understood that way.<p>What I don’t understand is that <i>this</i> social contract is the one that is now chosen as a hill to (often literally) die on. People happily follow other social clothing contracts that bring zero benefit to people other than the possibility to impose their will. Where are the people standing up against “no shirt no shoes no service”, what’s the issue with being topless at a beach or swimming nude altogether.