This isn't hard enough, It's more like denial for no reasoning. It's too bad but the anti-vax crowd is really the dumb as a post crowd. Yes, really they are!
When at least 14 worldwide vaccines are available to wipe an equal number of deadly viral malaises that may have already wiped out a billion people around the planet, to argue not to use vaccines or some such nil logic, is being dumb as a post.
Since C-19 is proven to be airborne infectious, not employing mask usage as an anti-spreading prevention technique is a choice to join the dumb as a post crowd.
Don't know who or what state policy where your state governor is pretending to be a public servant, I'm going to correctly guess that governor is dumb as a post.