Are anti-maskers, covid deniers etc. like suicide bombers?

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I’m curious. You don’t seem stupid or reckless. Why don’t you believe that COVID-19 is a serious illness and that wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of the disease? Why? This is a serious question. You can PM me the answer if you don’t want everyone else here to see. I am so curious.

We are talking about a virus transmitted via droplets.
Corona is “airborne via droplets”, and some small droplets can hang in the air for hours; but not airborne via wind like measles.

I don't like my freedom being taken away.
I don't like having to hide my identity by covering my face. It takes a part of who I am away. It destroys my self-expression. I dislike the way masks look. It's too mainstream. I always question authority and deliberately defy rules that don't benefit me or those I care about.
I am almost positive that no one I care about would die or get seriously ill from this disease. So confident I'm willing to bet my life on it.
The death rate for this disease is very low, close to 1%. Much lower than many other diseases or behaviors such as driving. As a person with a degree in the sciences I rely on statistics not sentimentality. "Serious" to me is a disease that kills at least 20% of those infected.
I had two grandparents die of dementia. I loved them but I think they are better off dead than living in the degrading state that they were in for years before they died. So are many in nursing homes.
The world is overpopulated. Diseases are a way to control the population through survival of the fittest.
The vast majority of the people who die of the virus are either already critically ill or are at or past their life expectancy. Everyone dies eventually and I don't see a need to preserve everyone's life indefinitely. If the human population continues to grow unchecked, there will only be more death through disease and shortage of resources. It may be a long time from now, but it will happen. I strongly believe that this planet would be better off with FAR fewer humans. People say this is "cruel", but that is a subjective term.
I have a question for you - why haven't we been wearing masks for years, if we are so afraid of sickness, to protect against things like flu and other viruses? Even with vaccines people still die. Not quite as many as with corona but thousands nonetheless.
I suppose the risks to me and others don't justify the loss of freedom and individuality that come with wearing a mask.
But that is my opinion. People who support this kind of thing seem just as insane to me as I seem to to you.

No cause is lost. That is only your wishful thinking.

How do you feel about seat belts in cars? Do you wear one? Isn't that taking away your freedom and helping to keep the world overpopulated?

I wish I could have gone to that.

Yikes.

Don't pretend to care about disabled people then use lines like that.

My mother could've died of a disease aged 29. She still has the disease. The NHS keeps her alive.

She is less of a 'useless eater' than I am. She helps disabled children through a middle class job.

What you are advocating is eugenics.

No, just natural selection. People will die of diseases no matter what we do. And you said "could have died". She also "could have" survived. Just because a "high risk" person catches the virus it doesn't mean they are going to die. Most young disabled people probably would survive it. Most older high risk people survive it. I just see the level of risk to the majority of people as acceptable with this virus. That is low. Just like driving a car. It could kill me or others, but the level of risk is low, therefore acceptable. We all have our own opinions on how high a level of risk is acceptable.

I have always worn a seatbelt. It's not a new thing. I've done it all my life. I don't think the government should be allowed to force adults to wear seatbelts. That should be a personal choice. I've actually heard of cases of people being killed by seatbelts in car accidents. I just don't want any new restrictions on my liberty.

Do not speak to me again unless you have a change of heart as to how you see people with diseases.

PS her lifelong deafness and bad back were not caused by coronavirus but by a different disease
PPS You would have deprived a 9 yo of a mother with this attitude.

There have been many people "with diseases" who have helped mankind evolve through various means----like inventions, new ideas, new philosophical notions, many things.

There have been many instances where convalescence from disease has resulted in somebody coming up with great things.

I would not be depriving anyone of anything. That would be nature/God/fate. They can indeed be cruel. Even if corona had never existed, do you know how many children around the world lose their parents to various diseases, accidents, or violence? Many millions. I never said that people with disabilities or illness should not be treated. That is ludicrous. I just mean that the risk of death from coronavirus is very low for everyone, even those with disabilities. Some will die, but there is no way to stop everyone in the world from dying from everything and we probably shouldn't be doing that anyway, due to overpopulation. If people would stop reproducing we could all be immortal but that's not going to happen. So some death, sad to say, is necessary.

Yes, I agree. Sometimes, "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger".

Sorry for my love to numbers and graphs but I find the graph of week-by-week deaths from all causes in New York City quite telling:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covi ... deaths.htm

No way this spike were only the people who would soon die anyway.

I disagree. It could have just sped up the inevitable for people who had months or at most a few years. And it's still a tiny fraction of the total population.

Everyone's death is inevitable.
So, by this logic, every serial killer walking out there is only speeding the inevitable.
Should we not worry about serial killers? Their impact on population is negligible.