[teejers1]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...ved-ground

I just don't get why we've gotten to the point where disputes over mask can lead to violence.

BC

Agreed.
The article relays this incident as the latest in a string of fatal confrontations.
Then list 3 over several months . . . worldwide.  Doesn't lessen the tragedy for each of these incidents; however, it does underscore that the overwhelming majority of folks are complying (I'd say full stop - but certainly complying without violent confrontations).  There are, unfortunately, a lot of senseless deaths in this country alone over stupid/trivial disputes.

BTW, the most egregious, in order, from the article:  (i) the bus driver, (ii) the store worker, and then (iii) the bar patron.  The embedded links were not to those other incidents, at least when I clicked on them they were not.

[teejers1]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...ved-ground

I just don't get why we've gotten to the point where disputes over mask can lead to violence.

BC

Agreed.
The article relays this incident as the latest in a string of fatal confrontations.
Then list 3 over several months . . . worldwide.  Doesn't lessen the tragedy for each of these incidents; however, it does underscore that the overwhelming majority of folks are complying (I'd say full stop - but certainly complying without violent confrontations).  There are, unfortunately, a lot of senseless deaths in this country alone over stupid/trivial disputes.

BTW, the most egregious, in order, from the article:  (i) the bus driver, (ii) the store worker, and then (iii) the bar patron.  The embedded links were not to those other incidents, at least when I clicked on them they were not.