I don’t think it can be made law when there is no proof that it is effective in protecting from Covid. The WHO website says there is no proven evidence, and they have done a lot of flip flopping but still have that verbiage up in the site.

Prolong use of wearing the mask can cause many health risks. Breathing in too much exhaled carbon dioxide can be dangerous. I have a friend working in retail who is required to wear a mask. He lasted 2 days and had to call in sick. He suffered serious headaches and dizzyness. I feel for all these employees that have their health affected to appease the paranoid individuals.

The interesting thing is that, as far as I am aware, NO STATE has a law requiring a mask - though there are many with 'executive orders' demanding such. I am not aware of any legislature that has made a law requiring masks in ANY circumstances.

I do agree that businesses can demand patrons wear a mask in order for customers to enter - and people are free to avoid such businesses. Also, there is nothing wrong with individuals wanting to use a mask.

Executive orders are for the Executive branches of state and federal government behavior - not for the enforcement of behavior on the general population. Court cases that have made it to the conclusion (few) have, to the best of my knowledge, all resulted in the Courts invalidating the orders. Correctly so.

The arguments that the orders are enforceable during a 'health emergency' are disputed by the failure to adequately define the emergency and of course were invalidated the second 'approved protests' became exempt.

Nothing much to add to @TimTuolomne’s post, which covered the issues well. I would just point out that putting everyone in masks, even when so many truly believe they are pointless, serves a valuable conditioning purpose: We become accustomed to doing what we’re told, even when we sincerely believe it’s pointless. Science and objective truth have never figured into the response to this virus. Politics has been the primary motivator, from the start.

Let’s assume that this thing really did bubble up unbidden from the mud and muck of Wuhan and took everyone by surprise. Let’s. To assume otherwise opens up a vastly different conversation that is worth exploring, but perhaps not here. I simply point out that had the forces arraigned against Donald Trump been smart enough and organized enough to manufacture this pandemic from scratch, with the ultimate goal of destroying the Trump economy and giving the left the leverage they’ve been seeking since November, 2016, to bring the country to its knees, they couldn’t have engineered a more effective scenario than what has unfolded anyway, purely by chance. Supposedly.

I don’t know how you feel about random chance and coincidence in politics, but I’m inclined towards FDR’s observation that if something happens in politics, you can bet it was intended. So I can’t look at the mask issue as simply a case of misguided caution. It’s part of an agenda that includes wildly inaccurate models of the rate and spread of infection, fantasy projections of death tolls, a resultant lockdown that was forced to remain in place long after the initial justification was shown to be wholly bogus, the vehemence that greeted news that a $0.60 pill with a proven safety record might stop the disease in its tracks, and the politicians willing to keep the economy and the country hostage unless they get to ram their leftist agenda down our throats.

Think of wearing masks as little bite-sized morsels of shit that we don’t want to eat, but they’re tiny and go down without much fuss. And so we get used to eating their shit. When the buckets of shit start coming at us, we’ll swallow those too, not because we agree, not because we want to, but because it’s something we’ve learned to do. And saying “No,” is something we’ve forgotten how to do.

My 2 cents, I am against mask for a variety of reasons. That said if a business wants to require a mask, I think they are well within their right to do so. I think there is a wide range of views on the virus and the mask. I have mine, but I will honor the rights of others to have their own view. I can choose to wear a mask as required or shop elsewhere. Forcing everyone to adopt my views sort of sounds like another movement going on atm.