What you're saying and the view point of always being on the watch for tyranny is absolutely on point and has to be shouted from the roof tops. Much respect.

Individual employers can actually require things in the current legal precedent, I work in human services and my employer required a flu shot some years ago and the policy was later reversed. It's still legal even though I personally don't favor flu shots due to the variation inherent in the flu. They're a useless profit making device for an already bloated in the wrong ways healthcare system.

That's also in line with a government policy of letting businesses run themselves the same way that hobby lobby doesn't pay for birth control.

As regards my personal line it's totally related to individual liberty. To me wearing a piece of cloth over my face to inhibit spread of something potentially lethal, especially to older folks and people with pre existing conditions is no big deal. But invading private property or enforcing regulations on private property is right fucking out. Stay the fuck off my lawn mr government.

I'm a man of science and viral lifecycles and their spread in an urban cattle like population is something I know a bit about. It's actually a serious deal. It's not a political thing on my end nor something that is without historical precedent. See the 1918 flu pandemic.

Inherently a cloth barrier helps resist the spread of particulates that are a primary means of transmission for the 'rona and a bunch of other shit. Like covering your mouth when you cough.

It's science. I'm a fan of that.

That said I thank you for your discussion and view point and wish you much hot tendies and meth as well as all the gats you can hold.

Uncle Scruffy