No one should complain about wearinga. seatbelt... yet, growing up in the 80s, I was surrounded by people constantly complaining about having to wear a seatbelt, not wearing one in protest and being pulled over by a cop—no ticket, but being told to wear one—and complaining about that. Maybe that's just an Indiana thing.... I sincerely hope no one there complains about it anymore.
Yet...
I know people in Japan who complain about being required to wear a seatbelt, and many who refuse to do so. Unfortunately the cops here usually just ignore it if the people doing the protesting are over a certain age.
Anyway, I don't see what all the fuss in the states is about masks. In Japan like... everyone wears masks every spring to avoid allergies (they don't really work for this, and doctors in Japan always say as much, but most people are so desperate to avoid allergies that they wear them anyway, just in case). At least a few people wear masks at other times when they are sick in order to protect others, and a fair percentage of people just always wear masks to avoid being recognised when going out. So here wearing masks is pretty normal. This covid mask thing is nothing new.
Yet people in the states seem to be freaking out over it.
Thinking back to how everyone complaining about seatbelts when I was a kid, I think people complaining about masks now is less about them being uncomfortable or inconvenient and more about not liking to be told what to do. A fairly selfish reason, but there we go.
But we do have that here too. Which is funny, because almost no one in Japan had a problem with masks until covid and masks becoming "required" then suddenly anti-maskers started appearing.
Watch as I sadly shake my head. We should all be willing to abide a little discomfort if it is for the common good. I think some people are just jerks. That's all.
This is the key.
Interesting how the world over we are all the same. I wish more people realized this.