Personally I think wearing masks is ridiculous, but I also think the overriding, guiding principle should always be personal freedom for the individual. If you wear a mask, that does no harm to anyone. Sure it's nice if I can see your face, but that's less important than your right to make a choice that makes you feel comfortable. What I…
Personally I think wearing masks is ridiculous, but I also think the overriding, guiding principle should always be personal freedom for the individual. If you wear a mask, that does no harm to anyone. Sure it's nice if I can see your face, but that's less important than your right to make a choice that makes you feel comfortable. What I think makes sense is irrelevant. We've seen what happens when someone can make health choices for others, enough already.
It's always easy to come up with a rationale for imposing one's own beliefs on others. Just remember that if you can do it to them, they can (and will) do it to you. That's why the overriding principle must always be freedom of choice.
I agree, and in the case of in ‘n out the choice is whether or not to work there. I think they thought long and hard about this policy and they aren’t being irrational in it. They aren’t saying you can’t wear a mask under any circumstance.
It wouldn’t take much to get a religious or medical exemption to wear a mask I imagine. People could get it based on anxiety and all sorts of reasons.
But the policy sends some great messages here. First, health is the responsibility of the individual not those around them. Second, wearing a mask is not normal nor should it be seen as laudable or virtuous.
I agree with you though that freedom is important and supported businesses making decisions concerning Covid restrictions until it was shocking and sad to see how many businesses fell over themselves to institute arbitrary and capricious restrictions like masks on planes and movie theaters.
Personally I think wearing masks is ridiculous, but I also think the overriding, guiding principle should always be personal freedom for the individual. If you wear a mask, that does no harm to anyone. Sure it's nice if I can see your face, but that's less important than your right to make a choice that makes you feel comfortable. What I think makes sense is irrelevant. We've seen what happens when someone can make health choices for others, enough already.
Yet many jobs require clear communication and a mask inhibits that so a private company is well within their rights to make this their policy.
It's always easy to come up with a rationale for imposing one's own beliefs on others. Just remember that if you can do it to them, they can (and will) do it to you. That's why the overriding principle must always be freedom of choice.
I agree, and in the case of in ‘n out the choice is whether or not to work there. I think they thought long and hard about this policy and they aren’t being irrational in it. They aren’t saying you can’t wear a mask under any circumstance.
It wouldn’t take much to get a religious or medical exemption to wear a mask I imagine. People could get it based on anxiety and all sorts of reasons.
But the policy sends some great messages here. First, health is the responsibility of the individual not those around them. Second, wearing a mask is not normal nor should it be seen as laudable or virtuous.
I agree with you though that freedom is important and supported businesses making decisions concerning Covid restrictions until it was shocking and sad to see how many businesses fell over themselves to institute arbitrary and capricious restrictions like masks on planes and movie theaters.