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Well me and my partner for example don't really have a choice and that I suppose is what makes not wearing a mask a bit of lib thing. There are many disabled and immunocompromized people who can't just choose "normal" with this virus.

We as a species also clean our water and do other similar things that humanity could probably also survive without. It would be miserable, but not everyone dies from cholera either.

The way the whole anti-max & anti-vax &get back to work industrial complex spun this made these protections about "liberty". When living safely with reasonable protection that includes everyone, not just the able-bodied majority would have been an option too. But that was "too authoritarian" even though there were strong forces of solidarity in the beginning. These were very actively spun around and focus shifted to all that individual neoliberal crap we have been listening to for years at this point.

It's a systemic issue, I am not going to go out if my way to shame anyone for not wearing a mask at this point, when there are no systems in place to make it easy and normal. But it is disappointing. Nor are there any other well working solutions like ventilation, spacing things out, work from home for anyone who needs protection etc. But letting all this become an individual burden and choosing to not stand in solidarity with vulnerable folks is a failure of the Left too. I won't attend a protest as long as there is no protection there, this excludes a lot of people. You just don't have to see them.

There is a great blog post about this whole thing here, says it all really: https://msteenhagen.medium.com/loathe-fascism-then-dont-be-a-health-supremacist-c8841acdf69