I never truly understood the anti-mask sentiment and I think I never will

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Here's some reasoning for you:

Studies show that masks are ineffective at preventing the transmission of Covid. This is because the virus can be transmitted by aerosol, and those masks cannot filter viral particles from aerosol (they can filter bacteria which are much larger, which is why surgeons use them, or even water droplets containing the virus, but not aerosol).

Also, even if the masks WERE effective, then YOU would be protected if YOU chose to wear one. This negates any argument about a public health need to force ME to wear a mask.

It is purely unjustifiable from a public health standpoint, so any attempt to force me to comply for no reason other than to make a public show of compliance is purely an act of tyranny

I view any attempt to make me wear a mask despite the evidence of it's ineffectiveness to be a personal attack on my bodily autonomy and liberty. I take it very very seriously, and will not shop anywhere that requires me to wear one.

Masks don't make you safer, but they make people FEEL safer, which may end up increasing your potential exposure to the virus as the feeling of safety leads to riskier behavior

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I view any attempt to make me wear a mask despite the evidence of it's ineffectiveness to be a personal attack on my bodily autonomy and liberty. I take it very very seriously, and will not shop anywhere that requires me to wear one.

This basically is what I find difficult to fully realize. Like I get the concept but it's not a concept I'm willing to die for.

I've been wearing them masks before the mandates even began. By then, I got used to it but it gets very stuffy.

I don't mind the mandates, not at all. Stems from being in an Asian society. I take it, you'd be the odd one out in a Japanese societal setting.

I agree with the riskier behavior part. It will embolden some to go out and probably would be the cause of more infections. Explains why in my country, the COVID thing is still low.

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This basically is what I find difficult to fully realize. Like I get the concept but it's not a concept I'm willing to die for.

Admittedly its more about the principle than the mask for me.

I don't mind the mandates, not at all. Stems from being in an Asian society. I take it, you'd be the odd one out in a Japanese societal setting.

Japan also said not to shame people or discriminate against people that didn't get vaccinated (unlike our gov), they sent back the Moderna vaccines when they were shown to have questionable safety (unlike our gov), allowed the therapeutic use of ivermectin unlike the US, and has almost nobody with a booster shot unlike the US which continued to push them. I'd be far more inclined to follow the suggestions of the Japanese government than my own

You might be surprised that I took 4 years of Japanese in High School, have been to Japan, and have a great deal of respect for their culture. If I lived there, I think I'd feel differently about the masks. You have a different social contract and expectations concerning autonomy, individualism and your obligations to the group. Maybe Japan expects me to conform to the norm rather than be an individual, but look at the lack of homeless people compared to the US, the level of expected obligation to your neighbors higher, and people are taken care of better. There is much more of a sense of 'we' than 'I' in many asian cultures compared to the US. Thats clearly not the arrangement we have here.