re: "Seriously, Just Wear Your Mask" (The New York Times, July 2, 2020)
Not wearing a mask poses a direct threat to others. It is the same as driving while drunk, which the state rightly criminalizes to protect others from the harm posed by such recklessly selfish acts.
For the gun loving, an apt analogy might be walking around in public firing your weapons at random with no regard for other people in the vicinity: it tends to treat that as manslaughter or attempted manslaughter as the law restricts the individual's liberty to indulge such whims.
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to the The New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/coronavirus-masks.html#commentsContainer&permid=107933183:107933183
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