Until when do you think mask wearing should be mandatory?
My biggest problem with covid interventions, including masks, is not the cost itself, but a lack of objective/quantitative criteria for deciding when to lift them, rather than “when it doesn’t feel scary anymore”.
(As for the direct costs of masks, well, they are uncomfortable, prevent me from seeing people’s faces which I enjoy doing, and make me feel depressed because they make the world look like a dystopia. Yes, the costs are relatively low, but IMO the difference in probability of death or maiming from covid with and without a mask is also quite low.)
My biggest problem with covid interventions, including masks, is not the cost itself, but a lack of objective/quantitative criteria for deciding when to lift them, rather than “when it doesn’t feel scary anymore”.
(As for the direct costs of masks, well, they are uncomfortable, prevent me from seeing people’s faces which I enjoy doing, and make me feel depressed because they make the world look like a dystopia. Yes, the costs are relatively low, but IMO the difference in probability of death or maiming from covid with and without a mask is also quite low.)