@madealiyah I’m making an addendum to my previous post. There are definitely chesboinos people need to make when it comes to saving lives. An extreme example I just heard today was “Should a hospital bankrupt itself to save the life of one child?”. When it comes to the flu, the cheshbon isn’t so difficult since so few people die from the flue. When it comes to pre-vaccine COVID, it’s actually very likely to kill someone by not wearing a mask. To add to that, the cheshbon needed to protect others from the flu is minimal and doesn’t require much. It’s not that I don’t “care” about people dying from the flu, it’s that the link between me not wearing a mask and people dying from the flu is tenuous at best (as opposed to COVID where there’s a very strong link and correlation between mask wearing and dying).
I am not being unreasonable, nor taking your words out of context. You have made it absolutely clear on multiple occasions that your convenience is more important than keeping other people safe in some sort of bizarre perversion of “Im ein ani li mi li?” I can sit hear quoting your comments all day, but I think this one:
@MadeAliya: How can anybody demand that people should wear a mask to protect others?
really drives the point home.