You know what women arguing against mandatory head scarves don't ever do? Supply loads of empirical data arguing against the claim that wearing head scarves reduces male libido and augments the general welfare.
When Pol Pot emptied the cities and marched the population out into the jungle, you know what kind of argument would have been missing the point? One providing empirical data showing that socialism and the forcible return to village life doesn't make society better off.
Similarly...
When your leaders (and neighbors) demand your complete obedience to their draconian interventions to help defeat a pandemic, the main retort is NOT that their interventions don't empirically work. The response is that they do not have the right to implement them.
That’s why I have tried to focus, since the start, on the moral and civil rights facets of this, as well on the underlying mass hysteria causes of it. That’s why my Science Moment series barely addresses the empirical issues concerning pandemic severity or intervention effectiveness.
Even engaging them on whether their civil rights quashing interventions work implicitly admits that it matters, and that they’d be justifiable if they did work.
They wouldn’t be.
I talk about this in this Science Moment…
Do you think I’m overly moralizing? Here are a couple Moment videos getting at the extent to which the Covid Cult isn’t even acting in a utilitarian manner. It’s way beyond that.
Here is my RCT on women with and without head scarves
My friend pointed out the absurdity of some people's position: spent years publicly giving off about headscarves from a feminist libertarian perspective; headscarves deny women their liberty, uphold a damaging, indeed even murderous patriarchy based not on enlightened values but on religious faith... and then begin insisting that there is no civil rights issue of freedom of dress EVEN AT ALL regarding face masks for covid, and insist that people must all wear them, and not doing so means that one is a selfish, indeed even murderous person, based on following science not conducting it.