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You don't have to be terrified to wear a mask in stores.  You just have to be considerate.  [/quote]

I understand your point here, and don't entirely disagree with the spirit of what you say.  However I do not believe that
-  there is good evidence that wearing masks even reduces the transmission rate, and absent such evidence this is a purely arbitrary action
-  even were wearing masks to reduce the transmission rate, that it would also reduce the eventual death toll
-  the government has any right to make this mandatory
-  the method the government will use (bureaucrats spying on businesses and using fines to force the businesses to act as enforcers on their behalf) is a morally acceptable way to implement the measure

On top of that, I strongly suspect that those behind the implementation of this measure are not interested in the health of anyone, but rather simply enjoy telling others what to do.[/quote]

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Think of the retail workers who know they have to come into contact with 100s of different people every day.  Don't you think they would feel better and safer if everyone had a mask on?  What if they, or someone in their household, is elderly, immunocompromised, has diabetes or is otherwise high risk?  Is it really that big of a deal to ask you to put a mask on for the 20 minutes you need to spend in the store getting groceries?   [/quote]

Some of them would likely feel safer (although it's a very different question as to whether they would actually be safer).  Many of them are utterly fed up having to wear masks themselves.

But - to your point - if this were merely politely requested of me, then I would happily go along with it.  But it is not a request, it is an order.  And the amount of power our government functionaries now believe they are entitled to wield over us seems to me far more dangerous than the virus.

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The contract tracing is another story, because there are very real privacy concerns associated with giving the government the ability to completely track all of our movements and interpersonal interactions. [/quote]

I agree that contact tracing (and immunity passports, and forced vaccination) are far more problematic.  But all of these, just like the mask wearing, will be sold to us as "helping the vulnerable", in just the same way as we are always told that the people we go to war with are "killing babies", or we are told that we cannot have privacy because of "terrorists and criminals".

In my view mask wearing is a trial balloon.  Better to shoot down the balloon than face the subsequent artillery barrage.[/quote]

Great post[/quote]

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