Somebody who wants you to get in line with their agenda in order to lift a
mask mandate still wants to keep you from standing as a whole
person again. When you compromise, you are no longer a whole
person.
If you've went through the
mask mandate almost a year and you're still here, and you're not
sick, why would you compromise or get in line now, even if half of your state has done it and more will follow? Don't give up on something because someone tells you it's a dark tunnel, even if they also tell you tell you there's a light at the end of it. When someone else takes control of your fate, they might try to get you
run over by a
train in a tunnel, all because you were willing to compromise with them.