Your mask doesn't really protect you. Other people's masks protect you.
Your mask prevents your germs from spewing and floating all over other people. Your mask doesn't protect you very much from unmasked people's germs spewed when they cough or talk to you. Unless you are wearing a specific type of mask, any germs floating in the air can still get at you from the sides of your mask.
You can wear a mask all you want, but you're protecting others when you mask, not yourself. If you're vaccinated, day to day, you really don't need to protect others from yourself when it comes to Covid. While it's technically possible for you to still get mild Covid and need to mask then, it's not statistically very likely on any given day.
Unvaccinated people are the people who should mask because they can easily become Covid infected and infect others. Their likelihood of being infected and not knowing it is much much higher.
This ruling puts nonvaccinated people at a much higher risk from each other than before. Not all of them are going to go along with an honor system to be honest about their vaccination status and wear a mask. But...most of the unvaccinated have knowingly accepted the risk of Covid, so that fact makes me a little more ethically comfortable with accepting what I personally consider to be their unwise decision. Not that they ever needed my permission or approval for any of it.
And even if you are Covid vaccinated and wear a mask, if others don't do the same, you can easily get the same old colds as before.
When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
