Again, I'm not sure if your are actually being serious here but just in case you are and that sherry is taking hold ?.
As an employee I had one boss who told me what I needed to do, that was it.
Now I run my own business I have many more stakeholders to deal with, ranging from my investors and shareholders, board of directors and chairman, to customers to regulatory bodies and more. Sometimes what I'm being told to do conflicts with one of the other "bosses" and I have to juggle them all.
It was so much simpler being an employee with a boss and leaving my boss to deal with all those.
There's a MASSIVE difference.
Essentially, now I am my own boss, I do what people want me to
because I (usually) want to, it is my choice. If I did not want to do anything in particular I would not have to do it, though I may have to contend with possible negative ramifications to my business.
But, essentially,
nobody is telling me what to do.
I certainly agree life is much simpler when you are employed by someone else.
If that's true, why do surgeons wear them [masks] ?
That's more or less a strawman argument. Comparing surgeons wearing medical grade masks for a relatively short time with the general populations' half arsed attempt to comply with the law (and/or peer pressure) with their cloth, or old, or possibly damp mask. I saw a bloke with a big bushy beard wearing a mask on the way here ! What possible good can that be doing ? ! ?
But, interestingly, even countries with draconian facemask mandates (medical grade and often mandated outside) still have not beaten Covid with them. In fact Peru is the worst for Covid deaths in the world.
That said, I am still prepared to believe they might make some minute difference, but, in my view, it is no where near enough to make their mandate acceptable in a free country.
It's about proportionality, the worst example of that being Labour journalist and campaigner Mike Buckley who said on the radio back in June
"all secondary school pupils [all 3 million of them]
wearing masks would be worth it to save one life". To rational people that's ballcox, but some, no doubt, would agree with him.
I assume you have picked up a Christmas sherry a little early in the day. Go home sir, you've had enough for one day ?.
Just in case you are actually serious, which I don't for one minute think you are, but if you are serious...if you saw someone about to jump off a bridge to kill themselves would you try and talk them down (like I and many others would) or would you cheer them on, or perhaps even give them a push?
Again that's is a completely different situation, comparing someone choosing not to wear a helmet to someone about to commit suicide. On the subject of the latter, it is not always an irrational thing to do anyway. How about a bloke, a keen sportsman, has a car accident and in it his only child gets killed and he loses a leg. A few weeks later his wife tells him she wants a divorce, and, because they have been together along time, she will get half the house and half his business. Him deciding "I've had enough of this" is perfectly rational. Who are we to tell him not to do it ?
But, in any case, you have avoided my point, if it is acceptable to force bikers to wear helmets because it is good for their lifespan (essentially good for their health) and it will save the country and the NHS lots of money if he avoids getting killed or seriously injured, why do we let people eat themselves to obesity ?
