- You are wrong about speed limits and “misuse of public property”. They are to prevent deaths and injuries. Just like masks are to prevent deaths and hospitalizations
- Ethically the correct thing to do would be to slow the spread. No matter which way you cut it, millions of deaths worldwide could have been prevented by wearing a mask. So yes, masks should have been required. Your disagreement because “government mandating my body grrr!” doesn’t hold a lot of water (or any at all).
Now on to your questions:
- Speed limits are as low as possible to reduce deaths. It’s unsafe drivers, unsafe vehicles, and unsafe road activity that cause accidents. If people would adhere to road laws, accidents would be severely reduced. Kind of like how COVID would have been severely reduced had people listened to government masking and social distancing laws
- The flu is not deadlier than COVID. We’ve discussed this. The deadliness of COVID isn’t the virus itself, but how fast it transmits. What must be done to prevent flu transmission isn’t enough to prevent COVID transmission. Hence masking.