I can certainly see why one might do that – if you allow requests then refusing a request is going to be quite socially awkward at be evest.
Can’t tell whether you’re being sarcastic, but I actually think this is true. I feel like there might have been a time when these things weren’t weaponised and even if it were okay to ask, no one would do it unless they were immunocompromised or something. But these days, as an employer who wants employees spending as little time and attention on masking (or lack thereof) as possible, the only maybe-stable equilibrium I can see between “masks required” and “masks forbidden” is “masks are a personal choice which you can make for yourself and yourself only”. Like politics or religion, which now that I think of it masking is more or less a symbol of, nowadays (even though it does obviously also have other effects).
Can’t tell whether you’re being sarcastic, but I actually think this is true. I feel like there might have been a time when these things weren’t weaponised and even if it were okay to ask, no one would do it unless they were immunocompromised or something. But these days, as an employer who wants employees spending as little time and attention on masking (or lack thereof) as possible, the only maybe-stable equilibrium I can see between “masks required” and “masks forbidden” is “masks are a personal choice which you can make for yourself and yourself only”. Like politics or religion, which now that I think of it masking is more or less a symbol of, nowadays (even though it does obviously also have other effects).