That said, do you think if a Scientist told him "Hey Frank, if you wear a Mask you're far less likely to get Polio..."

I realize he was born with polio, just keeping it light...

That line needs to be based on facts, and the decision made by the individual, not the government via legal mandate.

Where do we draw the line though? Imagine for example that we had an ebola outbreak in Hawaii. Ebola, on the low side, has a case fatality rate of 25% up to 90% on the high side.

Would you be ok with relying on the ebola patients and public to self regulate, wearing masks and quarantining as they wish?

Where do we draw the line though? Imagine for example that we had an ebola outbreak in Hawaii. Ebola, on the low side, has a case fatality rate of 25% up to 90% on the high side.

Would you be ok with relying on the ebola patients and public to self regulate, wearing masks and quarantining as they wish?

Is it a crime to be sick?

Ok, so which rules do you think are unconstitutional and how?

Ebola has a much higher mortality rate than the regular flu.

COVID-19 has a lower rate.

The line is somewhere between there.  Common sense will guide us.

Is it a crime to be sick?

I personally do not have a problem wearing a mask as I feel it protects me.  Just as I wear the approriate kind of mask when welding, sanding, spraying etc.  I know many people who don't and I think it is stupid not to.  But it is their health, not mine.

Sick until proven not infected .... well .... not even then.

I favor 3M 6000 series masks and filters for work as you mention.
Newer N95 masks  protect you but nobody else,
I have old style N95 masks without the valve, had them for years,
but it may asphyxiate you if you exert yourself too much.

You know the propose of surgical masks are to keep you from
infecting a patient, not protect you.

But when it comes to these useless masks they force us to wear in public,
I differ from you. They don't work.  They are merely a placebo to make
people feel safe.  That is why I reject mandatory public masks for everyone.
It makes them "feel" safe when they really aren't.

I was always taught in the computer, engineering, and instrumentation world, if you can't
give good data,  don't give any data.
You can cause more damage by people acting on bad data than when they
don't know.  That is why we haven't killed our economy in the past when we have
had other sicknesses that killed significant numbers of people.
That is what we are seeing now. They don't know and they give us bad data.
as they guess. People are acting on bad data and fear. We are failing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293953/
An important property of the respiratory protective apparatus is its structure.(3) As previously noted by Wiwanitkit,(3) the pore size of the protective apparatus is the main component that allows or prohibits the passage of pathogen. Since the coronavirus is an extremely small virus, it can pass through the pores of both the surgical mask and N95 respirator. Hence, considering the nanostructure of the protective apparatuses, there should not be any difference in their protective activity. In addition, contamination of the respiratory protective apparatus after use is another issue that needs to be addressed. Although the apparatus has a good structure that can prevent the passage of pathogen, if it is contaminated and reused, it will become the source of infection instead.(4)

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85814
The authors pointed to earlier research showing particles 0.04 to 0.2 μm "can penetrate surgical masks." For the coronavirus responsible for SARS, particles were estimated to be within that range at 0.08 to 0.14 μm, they said.

"Assuming that SARS-CoV-2 has a similar size, surgical masks are unlikely to effectively filter this virus," they wrote. "The size and concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols generated during coughing are unknown."

Capturing and filtering out the virus is not the point of the mask requirements though. The point of the masks in this case are to mitigate the small water droplets we expell because those droplets are what carries the virus. There have been multiple studies comparing various types of masks and even ones with just 2 layers of cotton t-shirt material did quite well at reducing both the quantity of water droplets as well as the distance the droplets spread.

The data is now a couple days old but the math still works

1416000 POPULATION OF HAWAII

5192 POSITIVE COVID CASES IN HAWAII

39 COVID RELATED DEATHS

0.367% % OF COVID CASES/POPULATION

0.751% % OF COVID DEATHS/CASES

0.00275% % OF COVID DEATHS/POPULATION

So in the State of Hawaii, less that 0.5% of the population has contracted it. Of those contracting it, less than 1% have died (and I don't want anyone dying). AND less than 3 Hundredths of a percent have died in relation to the population of the state. So yes by all means, lets cripple the states economy and crush everyone living in Hawaii.

Capturing and filtering out the virus is not the point of the mask requirements though. The point of the masks in this case are to mitigate the small water droplets we expell because those droplets are what carries the virus. There have been multiple studies comparing various types of masks and even ones with just 2 layers of cotton t-shirt material did quite well at reducing both the quantity of water droplets as well as the distance the droplets spread.

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-test-best-fabric-choices-for-making-a-homemade-covid-mask/?fbclid=IwAR3B-82DKTqxBc79U_zoVkzmuHJPgY1R2zaSwaviEfP-UMxInpxNUHbxaRM