Right-wingers in this country who reject mask mandates typically frame the issue as one of personal choice and responsibility. Well, I feel the same way about women and their right to abortion. How about them apples!
I suspect that most people who hold these obviously conflicting views would justify their apparent hypocrisy on two grounds, neither of which is particularly persuasive. The first would be that abortion always results in death, whereas appearing in public without a mask, and even possibly spreading the virus, may not damage anyone’s health. But sometimes it does, and can even kill; from society’s perspective, is the benefit of ditching a mask even remotely worth the risk? Second, the aborted fetus has no ability to protect itself, while the potential victims of maskless virus spreaders do. That isn’t really true, either; since you never know who is spreading the virus, the only way you can protect yourself with certainty is to completely shut yourself up at home. The ability to protect one’s self is thus contingent upon giving up any semblance of a normal life. Is the difference between death and a painful and unnatural way of life sufficient to justify the contradictory positions?