If it was only a temporary matter of mask wearing that would be one thing. Not only do studies show that the masks most people are wearing do nothing to stop the spread of airborne viruses but actually just increase the risk of bacterial pneumonia, furthermore the government has been giving billions upon billions of dollars to monopolistic corporations that don't need it, meanwhile letting small businesses livelihoods go under and filibustering stimulus relief for petty political reasons. Then they try to essentially blame people like me, acting like they just had to ruin working class lives for my sake. It's evil and infuriating. Only weeks ago I saw a local restaurant was trying to put together some contraption of tent sheets and space heaters in a desperate effort to not have to lay off their waitstaff, and local government shut it all down, again claiming it was protect people like me. With loss of income and no stimulus relief how are those waitstaff going to pay living expenses for months all winter long? I can't even imagine having the mentality of wanting to do that to them just to protect myself from voluntarily dining at a restaurant. I am sick as hell of useful idiots trying to blame this willful destruction of livelihoods on people like me. Nobody ever asked us if we wanted to sacrifice others because the vast majority of us would have been repulsed by the thought.
If it was only a temporary matter of mask wearing that would be one thing. Not only do studies show that the masks most people are wearing do nothing to stop the spread of airborne viruses but actually just increase the risk of bacterial pneumonia, furthermore the government has been giving billions upon billions of dollars to monopolistic corporations that don't need it, meanwhile letting small businesses livelihoods go under and filibustering stimulus relief for petty political reasons. Then they try to essentially blame people like me, acting like they just had to ruin working class lives for my sake. It's evil and infuriating. Only weeks ago I saw a local restaurant was trying to put together some contraption of tent sheets and space heaters in a desperate effort to not have to lay off their waitstaff, and local government shut it all down, again claiming it was protect people like me. With loss of income and no stimulus relief how are those waitstaff going to pay living expenses for months all winter long? I can't even imagine having the mentality of wanting to do that to them just to protect myself from voluntarily dining at a restaurant. I am sick as hell of useful idiots trying to blame this willful destruction of livelihoods on people like me. Nobody ever asked us if we wanted to sacrifice others because the vast majority of us would have been repulsed by the thought.
That's fine, but I'm responding to the material content of OP's post, which is