So many points on this.
I guess first, free choice is usually defined in opposition to legislation, so those who believe in it would support both the customers and the owner of the restaurant, there is no contradiction there.
I don't personally support the waitress' reaction, and the parents were going to have to remove their masks to eat and drink anyway, but it's the lack of compassion rather than the political ideal that's the problem here.
Are anti-maskers supremacists? Masks are more about preventing you spread the virus than catching it, so it's not obvious that the lack of one is a sign of mistaken invulnerability. I'm sure there are plenty of supremacists out there, but you'd probably have to talk to them before judging.
It's more interesting how you deconstruct the way conservatives fight for free choice and then use their influence and peer pressure to get their own way in the absence of legislation.
That's true, but that's what everyone does.
The difference here is that you not only do all you can to convince others of your view, but you demand that the government backs you up, by enforcing that everyone behaves as you wish.
This isn't obviously better behaviour.
You justify it by claims to being "right", objectively. But if you were interested in being "right", you wouldn't elsewhere be hinting that Delta can be spread through walking past someone in the opposite direction. That's a powerful claim, and even with the caveats it has a lot of fear-mongering impact, and it's almost certainly not true.
It's not without cost that everyone line in an over-heightened sense of anxiety. It may reduce covid transmission, but that's not the only thing that kills people and ruins lives. In the UK we have almost 400,000 less cancer diagnoses than usual since covid hit, in part because people are scared of hospitals. That's not going to end well.
I totally agree that we need to act as a society and not individualistically, but you don't get that bond by attacking people and spreading propaganda - have we forgotten 2016? And you don't get there by relying on politicians and top-down edicts.
Politicising a social issues entrenches division and individualism.
Obedience isn't community spirit.
People will react against laws when they might otherwise act more socially responsibly. Studies have shown that vaccine passports increase resistance to vaccination amongst those who were originally only hesitant.
Shout at the stupid and selfish all you want, I understand the frustration, but that's all it is; a relief.
Just don’t go on about being “right”, it discredits you
