If everyone around you jumped off a cliff that was just tall enough where you could survive the fall but most likely be rendered disabled in some way if you did, either from the fall directly or from another person landing on you, would you join them?
Say you had to take this same jump every time you went to eat indoors at a restaurant, would that be worth it? What about watching a movie at the theater, or going to the club? Might you reconsider these activities and possibly do something else that you enjoy where you didn't have to jump?
What if you needed medical care, and they there was a cliff there as well? There was a point in time where they had a soft landing for you minimizing your risk of injury, but eventually they decided that it was just too much trouble and we had to "learn to live with the cliffs", so they took the mats away.
If, in this hypothetical situation, you would avoid these cliffs or bring a mat with you wherever you went, but you currently don't wear a mask in public...
Why?
@corvax So let me extend your metaphor a bit.
A bunch of researchers studied cliff divers and discovered that with good technique an a deep body of water to dive into, they almost never go injured when they jumped off a cliff. Those researcher then suggested putting shallow plastic kiddy pools below the cliff and telling people to jump in them just like the cliff divers and it will be safe. We have the cliff diver studies to prove it.
