How the hell do people expect to start a revolution, when the same people wont even stand up to their boss about masks?!
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Another thought, and devil's advocate time from an old fuck:
It was once said that "...a coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage."
I have the luxury of working a job where I WFH all the time, and live rural so I don't have to bother with a mask for 99.999% of the time, if that, BUT, even from my enviable perch:
I can't get too pissed at someone for not risking his job, especially when he has kids to feed and needs to keep a roof over their heads.
These decisions are very easy to make when it's just you, or you have no kids. When I was single and young, I happily walked away from lots of jobs, with my head and middle fingers proudly raised high. When it was just me and the wife, I still had no reservations in telling a shithead boss to go fuck himself, literally daring the sniveling little cocksucker to fire me if he didn't like it, and I've even blackened one's eye on my way out of a job. Let's just say I was a bit of a hothead at work, and leave it at that.
...but then, my daughter was born. Followed 18 months later by a son. Suddenly, it stopped being all about me. I wasn't so free and easy about my personal opinions at work anymore. I learned to STFU and be diplomatic on any non-critical issue.
Now that it's just me and the wife in our empty and nearly-paid-off nest, and I have a year or two of 'fuck you money' stashed away, I can be freer and more open about my opinions again... but I'm not going to demand that a young single father do what I know full well that I sure as fuck wouldn't have done in his situation.
If by "short term discomfort" you mean the worst-case of being homeless and having your kids consigned to Foster Care because of that, then you have a very odd definition of comfort.
Like I said, I myself don't wear one to work, but even if I did I could refuse it easily enough - I have the monetary reserves, and my own kids are adults and out on their own, so it is quite literally not about me in the literal and metaphorical sense.
That said, and as stated, Younger men with kids don't have that choice, and I'm not going to begrudge them over that, because with young kids on the line, I'm not 100% certain that I could make that choice properly, no matter what my heart tells me to do.
Now there is a red line to be sure, but I suspect that the face-diapers isn't it.
I also suspect that if it were truly a matter of freedom vs. slavery at this point, there would be assassinations going on at a very regular pace right about now, because such dire historical breakpoints will require dire remedies.
It may come to that, but not at this time, and not for this reason.