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A casual encounter with secondhand smoke has an exceedingly small likelihood of causing a spontaneous mutation resulting in lung cancer.

A casual encounter with a SARS-CoV-2 infected individual coughing on you without a mask can easily land someone in the ICU.

Being incapacitated by drugs and alcohol are permissible in certain situations (being in your own home), not in others (driving on the freeway).

In a similar fashion, not wearing a mask is permissible in some situations (being in your own home), not in others (standing six inches behind me in line at the grocery store).



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