Happy to explain further, but first I need to know more about what you can relate to.

How do you feel about the ice cream analogy? Would you just be happy for the opportunity to eat ice cream and not be bothered by the gun to your head?

I guess maybe I just won’t get it, it seems like nothing, to me, to wear a mask if requested, so I don’t get the push back. Do you feel like it’s being too submissive or something? I prefer explanations of how you feel and what your internal dialogue is when a mask is mandatory at, say, the grocer. Vaccinations are a decent corollary but those are riskier than an N95 by far, so it’s not perfect. Wearing a mask basically costs nothing, IMO, unless you’re a very specific case where it’s harmful.

You refused to answer the question. I clearly stated it was a pre-requisite for an explanation.

I dont know how to explain it if you wont meet me half way.

The ice cream analogy was stupid, that’s what I think. Ice cream isn’t a virus, it’s not even the same stakes! Do 1/100 to 1/250 people die from new ice cream varieties?

Eating ice cream is an analogy for wearing a mask, not the virus.

It is something that isn't a big deal, and that I would normally enjoy doing. I guess you didnt get it

Fair enough, everyone can’t agree on everything or communicate with each other effectively. I am particular about masks because I know several close family members who could only go out during covid when people regularly masked, and when masking wasn’t mandatory again, they couldn’t go out for a while until they came out with some new drugs after a year or so. I am fine with no masking today, but it broke my brain that roughly a quarter of people in other places of the country from here were so livid and angry because they had to be somewhat uncomfortable so that immunocompromized people could have safely shopped for necessities. Not only that, but the aforementioned fact that in places where masking was prevalent there was a decreased death rate.

That's not what it was about for them at all. Wearing a mask is a minor, even trivial thing.

> {The ice cream analogy} was stupid, that’s what I think.

Replace the token above with mandatory masking, and you have your answer. Unfortunately, if you do not like the answer (perhaps you think it is stupid) your mind not be able to accept it.

Most of reality works this way as far as I can tell.