>>7
I'm not opposed to masks. I'm opposed to guilt as an enforcement mechanism, and the idea that masks are sufficient. Regarding the first issue in the US guilt clearly wasn't sufficient because many people never wore masks. Regarding the second this is the difference between the thinking of Japan and China, and the results speak for themselves.
>>9-12
I like results, in the case where a problem becomes quite literally exponentially worse the longer you delay, conversation may be a necessary casualty as far as I'm concerned. Ideally we would all live in our own polis and voice our concerns in the assembly but this is not the case, we have incompetency, corruption, placation, manipulation, lofty-ideas, and make-believe which leave no room for man.