johnsnownw
Elio Addict
Fear and greed. And an inability to do math and understand what numbers mean. You cannot reason a man out of something he was not reasoned into.
It's now come down to virtue-signalling. "I wear a mask to show that I'm more thoughtful, caring, and scientific than you." "You don't wear a mask because you want grandma to die, and you're going to have piles of corpses on your conscience." Whether Chicken Little's acorn, or Dumbo's feather, the lucky rabbit's foot, or hundreds of others, history is replete with stories of fears and the talismans to ward off danger.
The story of Nasrudin comes to mind. He was sprinkling salt all around his house, when a neighbor came up and asked what he was doing. "I'm warding off tigers!" "But there are no tigers within 500 miles of here." "See, it works great!"
It's like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon will mess on the board, knock the pieces over with its wings, and loudly proclaim that it won the game.
That was a lot of words to state that you just don't want to wear a mask.