Furthermore, there are a lot of strange assumptions Richard keeps making.
1. Masks don't protect you perfectly. Seatbelts don't protect you perfectly either.
The Mayo Clinic is a private clinic WELL respected the world over and point out how masks are part and parcel to help.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449
2. The idea that people can still pass COVID after vaccination. Again, another strawman. You don't get the flu shot so you will be 100% protected from the flu. You get it because it offers SOME protection. Sometimes it's full. Sometimes its partial.
The goal for the vaccinations is not to provide some kind of magical permanent immunity, but rather not to have our hospital beds get used up.
Currently, in Alberta (Canada's Texas) there were hospitals that had their beds open up because of the deaths of the people who weren't vaccinated.
3. Long COVID. I had COVID when it first came out. Unlike the flu, there have been long term effects. I think I'm finally past that, but it's been almost a year and a half until those symptoms have been going away and who knows how COVID may have shortened my life span? Notice neither Alex nor Richard talk about that.
4. Richard talks like an American. As I try to tell people regularly, the biggest difference between Americans and Canadians are in ideology.
You guys have "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". We have "Peace, order, and good government." Certainly ours is a more collectivist view of what we want in Canada compared to your individualist view.
But, you could also look at it an entirely different way. Our constitution demands accountability of our elected officials. Yours doesn't.
"Life" "Liberty" and "The Pursuit of Happiness". Those are terms that without any defining characteristics mean effectively nothing.
Life could be- life behind bars.
Liberty could be translated as... the liberty to do what you're told
and The Pursuit of Happiness? That should be considered the biggest pipe dream ever. Consider what George Carlin had to say about the American Dream. You have to be asleep to believe it.
J