What? It just being a flu is an argument that I only seen from anti-vax... never been a thing here but would be happy to be proven wrong.
> and that masks promote xenophobia and do nothing.
Never seen this also, could you show me? The best I have seen in the past was that a mask in the wrong hands do no good, which is true when you need 100x more mask than you got, which was the case at the time.
> you want to mandate a treatment for non-at-risk people, which can give them permanent damage or even cause death.
I'm curious how you define non-at-risk people too? Covid was not a risk for them but vaccine was? That's weird how the virus works ;). Whatever you fear from the vaccine, you can fear the same from the virus... except that from the virus, the numbers are incredibly much worse. Why would we use the vaccine if that wasn't the case? We would be stuck with the exact same issues.