Masks have always been required in certain settings by healthy people. Those performing your surgery. If you wanted to visit a family member in the ICU. Even sandwich makers have to wear gloves and hairnets.
Masks for surgery is because there are open wounds in the surgical theatre that you don't want spittle to enter. If we were walking around the local supermarket with open wounds, I'd fully endorse all of us wearing surgical masks.
I've been to the ICU several times in my life, as a patient and as a visitor, and no one ever wore a mask.
Food preparers wear gloves and hairnets for non-respiratory disease transmission, mostly for diseases transmitted when fecal matter comes in contact during food preparation (gross to think about, I know).
We've mandated the use of shoes and shirts in restaurants for service. I assume you are good with that and it's not an impact on your "freedom"
This may be differ by municipalities but there is likely no government mandate that shoes and shirts must be worn in restaurants. A restaurant on a boardwalk surely doesn't adhere to this. That is the discretion of the restaurant owner. And just like a business who currently has a sign telling the customers to wear a mask, this isn't a freedom issue, this is a property issue and you respect the rules of the property you enter.
Pandemic vaccine indemnification laws have been on the books since 2006
That's interesting. Just because something's been a law for a decade and a half doesn't mean I agree with it. As I stated it seems very dangerous to me. It doesn't require some huge conspiracy it to be foolhardy and dangerous. Thalidomide wasn't some grand conspiracy to harm children.