@Nickittynic
I agree with nearly everything you said, and most importantly, that core message:

WEAR A MASK...

However, I'd suggest that "masks have become contentious" is far too polite. Masks have been deliberately *made* contentious by people whose intentions have nothing to do with public health and everything to do with private wealth. There isn't any public good involved.

Secondly, by mentioning "personal health history", you're (perhaps unconsciously) buying in to the premise that fit, young, healthy people don't have any reason to wear a mask. The Covid infection and death figures, the plight of hospitals around the world is why *everyone* should wear a mask until we sort this out. As many people have pointed out, wearing a mask is as much a gesture of goodwill as it is any statement about your personal health situation.

The only people pushing propaganda that "it's over" or "it's the flu" are people who won't get it and who are profiting from it, or who've bought the selfishness propaganda and mindlessly repeat it.

We're social animals. Our entire existence is premised on society; we wouldn't last a year alone in the jungle (and idiots who reply "*I* would" are just the same people who'll push children aside in the rush for the lifeboats). Society is made up equally of rights and obligations, and for those of you not wearing a mask it's simply a statement that, for you, there are only rights but no obligations. You're a (possibly unconscious) sociopath.