Many cognitively dissonant ones are very outspoken about their right not to wear a mask.
Do they have the right to to kill people, albeit indirectly, by not wearing a mask?
If everyone wore masks and socially distanced, then there is no way that COVID-19 will spread. The rate of transmission will be so low, it is statistically and realistically impossible for it to become widespread.
Rights? People have the right to smoke cigarettes, but not everywhere. Why, it causes cancer even through second hand smoke.
Self inflicted miracle: I have had three bladder cancer surgeries in six years due to smoking, a couple of decades ago. Used to sneak in a cigarette or two every day, but still got cancer. A cigarette once in a while, still got cancer. Finally quit and no more cancer.
I thought I was a goner. Did all the things I wanted to do before I died, met old friends, contemplated in death, but failed to die.
Made and makes life seem and feel very different.
COVID-19 pandemic and closing of businesses versus everyone wearing masks, socially distancing, washing hands, avoiding crowded places. What is the logical choice?
In Korea, most people, I estimate over 95%, wear masks outside. However, there are some cognitively dissonant people who message over one million people for a mass protest (pro-conservative right wing), as well as churches that hold crowded services and lie to health authorities to hinder contact tracing, people who break quarantine, go to coffee shops, restaurants, bars and infect other people.
That is why we still have coronavirus in Korea.
In China, I read that everyone has an app that is used to enter places. If you are not infected and have had no contact or been in close proximity of an infected person, you can enter. If not, no. And I think they still wear masks.
If someone is infected in China, they close down and isolate the neighborhood for a few weeks. No chance of spreading the infection.
People seem to have too many rights that are essentially very wrong.
Right of free speech? Right to outright lie for questionable purposes?
Don't people have the right and obligation to speak in a constructive and polite manner to each other?
