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it comes back to the fact that making mask wearing mandatory is a step too far, it's why the government didnt want to make it mandatory in the first place.

Someone could have flu, or any other virus and pass it on, that is not stopped by a face mask, and then that virus could get passed to a vulnerable person and they subsequently die. This has been happening since the dawn of time. Making something like mask wearing mandatory has a very limited shelf life