....you saw someone die. Who? Do you know for a fact that they got the vaccine and still died? And even so, given how exquisitely rare it is for someone to be fully vaccinated and actually die from COVID thereafter, the costs from remasking the public outweigh the risk.
Remember that in about 330,000 or so people tested with the three FDA approved vaccines in different parts of the world, there were ZERO deaths. (It is for this reason that I ask whether you actually know for sure that the person who died was vaccinated or whether you were told this second or third hand).
I do not dismiss the legitimacy of COVID. I agree that every adult should get the 2 shot vaccine. But I absolutely do NOT agree with remasking once you have had the vaccine. I trust it. It is true that it is still possible that a very rare case of death could still occur, but that has always been the case for many other infections including H1N1 where we did not have such an overreaction.
The costs of such a widespread action of remasking the public include young children losing out on an effective education while they fiddle with their masks, depression and suicide numbers directly related to the masks which far, far outweigh the super rare post vaccine COVID death, complications form oral and respiratory fungal infections associated with mask wearing, complications for undiagnosed asthmatics, financial costs (PPE has been a difficult hudle for many small businesses and schools).etc.
Because the risk of death post vaccine from COVID is SO low mathematically, these other issues actually become greater risks.
You have witnessed a traumatic event which has biased your viewpoint. Imagine in an analogous situation where a person's loved one is recovering successfully in the ICU from a closed head injury from a car crash. In the next room over is another motor vehicle accident victim with a head injury who dies. The friends of that person say that the deceased was wearing a seatbelt, though you obviously cannot look at the official report. Still, you start telling everyone that you are going to wear a helmet in addition to your seatbelt whenever you ride in a car. That's fine if you want to do that, but do you think everyone else should start wearing a helmet too?
I trust the vaccine. I respect that you don't especially after your atypical experience, but in truth, you cannot fully eliminate the risk of death, and there are other factors to consider that make your recommendation for a mask something that should be personal to you, but not forced upon others
(not sure if you are saying this or not, but people on the Left will certainly take this as advocacy for sweeping recommendations to all).
and by the way, if masks post vaccine are pushed, there will be no motive for the unvaccinated to get a vaccine given they will still have to wear their masks. That impedence to vaccination would be more significant than any minimal benefit from masks being worn by the general public who do not wear them properly or use proper masks for the most part.