And how many of those that died were anti-maskers or got infected because they weren't wearing one? Perhaps they are at fault for their own deaths.
This is why measures like this are entirely unfair. There's no way of knowing if an anti-masker actually made anyone sick and there's no way of knowing if the infected person didn't get infected due to a lapse in practicing anti-infection protocol, such as forgetting to put gloves on at the grocery store.
This is nothing short of state-enforced moral imperative.
Its your state, your national government, you'd expect those you voted in, to make whatever policy to protect you. That's democracy.
You still have not got your head around 'Virus/Pandemic'.
The 170,000 Americans dead from Corona did not all go to Wuhan and return with it. It was spread by perhaps a few people who had come in contact with people who themselves may never have been to Wuhan but came in contact with someone who had.
Only by restricting movement, and wearing protection can the spread be brought under some control before a vaccine that must be enforced is administered.
You're arguing against a point I am not making. I am not making the point that the mask mandate is wrong or excessive, I am making the point that punishing people for the deaths - for which the state has no idea they are actually guilty of - is excessive.
If there is a government mandate to wear a mask in public then cite them for not wearing a mask if they are not wearing one. But you cannot punish them for the deaths of infected people when you have no idea
how those people got infected. In essence, these anti-maskers are not being punished for their actions per se, they are being punished for an
ideal.
It is the same principle by which anti-firearm people operate here in the U.S.. They don't share or identify with the ideal of gun ownership for defense or hunting or target shooting and competition so, because of the actions of a few, they wish to punish all gun owners by painting gun ownership in general as immoral. It's not so much they wish to reduce firearm deaths, they wish to destroy an
ideal.
And no, it is not my intention to steer the topic to gun control. I merely use this as an example.