Freedom to not wear a mask

I didn’t DV you- but... no? Sort of yes- but no. In most places a violation of the health code is a criminal offense. So the “choice” that exists today is wether to follow the law of commit a crime, which isn’t the same thing as not having any law or consequence or enforcement is it? I mean- people also commit murder- but having a police force or government say: “freedom includes the right to murder, and people still murder anyway, so we are just going to let you all decide for yourselves..” is not “what already happens” is it?

Oh no, I'm talking about the food industry as a whole. It's filthy, dirty, wrong, and nobody who actually gives a damn about themselves will trust restaurants in general. You can trust people not to murder more than to wash their hands simply because of the effort required for one over the other.

Ah. I’d say so. The ability to enforce or monitor food service practices just isn’t practical, and really would have to go in to deeeep big brother territory for us to be able to say a place follows practices like hand washing, and not have it just be in faith. As you’ve said before, and is true- the average person (who restaurant employees usually are) just can’t be relied on to follow sterile handling or other technical processes on their own.

So that’s the yes part. Yes washing hands and other practices basically being mostly optional in practice already happens. But no in that it isn’t a legal option for an institution to make it policy that following the law is an option for employees.