Can you explain why not wearing a mask is so important to you? I simply don’t understand this reaction. We already don’t let you go naked in the streets for a variety of reasons including public health, and masks are one of the major tools we have to combat this virus. We already require standards for restaurants otherwise they get shut down due to public health concerns (there’s no freedom allowed to serve rotting meat and make others sick). Countries with high mask compliance like S Korea and Hong Kong have had far fewer cases, and when they, they limit the spread better. We’ve already lost 200k Americans in roughly 6 months, with millions more to lose if we remove all restrictions and no one wears a mask. Why does public health get such a low priority for you? And why does your freedom allow you to spread a deadly virus to me, where I have no say in it?

Do you wear seatbelts?

I think you should start with the Media and freedom of speech. They've done more harm than all of those things in the last few decades.

Oh man, you just made my day. Thank you for this.

Please don't break the site guidelines like that. Seriously not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sounds good to me let's get rid of alcohol the US has a really unhealthy relationship with it anyway, let's do it.

Lockdown protects the public health and has long standing precedent. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/197/11

Just come out and say you're a selfish person who doesn't care if they harm people instead of hiding behind all of the pretense that it's restricting you too much.

Given that the last time the U.S. banned alcohol it was a total disaster causing thousands of deaths, and we now live in a time where public sentiment towards many currently illegal drugs becoming legal is positive. I don't expect prohibition to come back any time soon.

Criminalising morality does tend to fare poorly. Setting responsibility at appropriate levels or behaviours (say, contributory negligence liability for drugs- or alcohol-based deaths or injury to the industry rather than individual users) might have merits.

Effective determination and points of control can be thorny.

Sounds like the governments fault. I don't believe in allowing choices that go against the grain of common sense and utilitarian consequence.