WHY do you need a mandate?
WHY are you not voluntarily wearing a mask?
YOU could be asymptomatic, you could contract it after you've been tested. it may have mutated and your antibodies may no longer be effective, why would you take your mask off when it is still around?
edit: if we go along with your point, that cases are down in DE and therefore it is safe to not have a mask, then I should well be able to say that cases are near non-existant in my county, as well as the ones i travel in. cases aren't exploding in my half of the state either. the vast majority of the country is not seeing cases explode, so how does that reinforce your blanket statements of US being idiots and mask deniers? it is exactly what you are doing with your actions.
Are you the guy in a 5v5 team survivor that is supposed to cover the tunnel, but always peeks and dies? 5v4 is a statistical problem and we lose the clan war.
So for me, there are times to oppose certain things with government and even demonstrate for votes, and times to stand behind them.
I do believe that the system works and I fully understand money drives. It's still a system.
If the leadership decides, in times of hardship, what the team should do, I do it.
The rules over here are sane and based on science and unfolding findings. Everyone was allowed outside for sports alone at all times. Every needs to wear masks, INSIDE. Don't meet with family for a while.
Done deal. Everyone basically, except actually the bottom pile immigrants and such, complied.
It's basically over, but people are getting a bit restless. Another wave will probably come. Again they will comply.
Again the hospitals will fill, but most will recover because here (not like Canada) everyone gets friggen awesome care on the most modern machines. Every small city here at least 20 doctors to slow down the storms on hospitals, and people go because it involves zero money ever. (Unless you want special stuff)
I've bitched about taxes a lot in the past. But this entire country IS like the inside of an Audi. No creaks if you have to go 150 mph. Awesome pavement. Decent schools.
15% present a challenge. But it's manageable.
This leadership unites. She even used some propaganda, in the form of a German flag in one of her first covid speeches and it worked wonders on the far right, they also comply.
Flying a flag is looked down on by Germans, by some due to shame (mostly dead) and others because i"something dumb countries do."
Big cities had covid protests. Twice. Under 1K people per city per day. Then it fissled out.
Oh yea. Second generation Muslim immigrants rioted a bit in one city because they want to be like Americans or something.