>If the government is going to force people to wear masks, they better have two things in place: 1) proof of necessity and 2) proof of efficacy, both of which t

>If the government is going to force people to wear masks, they better have two things in place: 1) proof of necessity and 2) proof of efficacy, both of which there were very valid questions during covid. Time-travel would make this an effective strategy in a public health context. Until that is developed, a "better safe than sorry" strategy is a perfectly reasonable approach. The entire point of representative government is to outsource difficult decisions to folks who can spend their time going through the details of very challenging trade-offs while the rest of us, you know, go to work.