"Don't you want to kill your family members?" No, not really. Just my personal choice.
A comfortable mask isn't some great burden to me. The whole line of questioning feels strange, like someone incredulously saying "Do you plan on wearing pants for the rest of your life??"
I’m from Western Europe and mask wearing both never was political, was well followed during the much more stringent restrictions we had at the peak of the epidemic and has virtually disappeared from the past two years.
It’s a very different attitude that what it seems to be in the state but our relationship with diseases is already culturally extremely different than what it is in the USA.
As you may note, that's not what I said.
> Suggesting that a mask in 2022 has anywhere near the utility of pants
Didn't say that either.
It's simply strange to me that people get so worked up over it, just like it would be strange if people got super worked up over wearing pants.
In my experience, absent of the 'hot/stuffy mask face' it's no big deal. YMMV