And here you’ve just argued yourself around into a knot and highlighted the logical fallacy of your ideological position.

If regulation is a good thing to prevent harm that we all accept — and we do, then it’s a good thing in both situations.

Mask wearing is a regulation, and a temporary one at that. No one is saying we all have to wear masks from here on out forevermore. This pandemic will not last forever. Until it wanes, however, temporary regulations like mask wearing and social distancing reduce harm until a more permanent solution can come to fruition (vaccines, treatments, etc).

You also stated that you know what’s best for you better than anyone. I concede the point.

Here’s why that’s not enough. Covid-19 is not a genetically engineered virus designed to attack you and you alone. It’s coming for all of us. This virus is airborne. We share the air we breathe with everyone else who breathes air. You don’t own the air. It’s a collective good. Ergo, you don’t get to choose what’s best for the rest of us at our expense.

Mask wearing is not an individual decision with consequences falling solely on the individual who made that onerous decision. Consequences fall on everyone who shares that air, and everyone who then shares that person’s air, and everyone who shares that person’s air too, and on and on.

Covid-19 is a community problem not an individual one. It requires a community response and community thinking not individual short sighted negligence.

Either be part of the whole or separate yourself from the whole so the rest of us aren’t infected with your nonsense. Because we’re ready for this to end. And we’ll do the work necessary for it to end.