Yup. We've tried reason and appealing to people's common sense doesn't work if they don't have any. Some people only understand force. We've had more than a year for people to do "their own research" as if they're setting up a virology lab in their kitchen only for them to still be spouting the same uninformed nonsense they were spouting on day one.Maybe Macron is on to something when he says it's got to hurt. Enough of the carrot, time for the stick.
The other side of people only understanding force is that some people just don't want to play by the rules, even rules they agreed to. I'm at Disneyworld right now. Masks are required indoors, including on the monorail. There are signs about this requirement posted everywhere. Indoor mask requirement is also on Disney website. Despite that, some halfhead walked onto the monorail today with his family of five. He and his wife never wore a mask. If you don't like wearing masks, it's fine. You can go some place else that doesn't impose "tyranny" or stay home. But your presence in the park is tacitly agreeing to wearing a mask, and even that was too much to for you to do. These are probably the same people that will rail against traffic lights and don't understand the social contract. Rules exist because if every single person did only what their hearts desire, the only form of government on the planet would be anarchy.




