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No your cloth bags are not the solution. It's a trade off between immediate needs and future costs. I don't dispute plastic bags have many negative externalitie
by ass3r7 9y ago
No your cloth bags are not the solution. It's a trade off between immediate needs and future costs. I don't dispute plastic bags have many negative externalities however they are profoundly immediately useful to humans. There are massive unintended consequences whenever you impose a designed objective function on reality as a planner.
In regards to the questionable surfaces I don't dispute that either but it is irrelevant.
what the relevant issue is measuring the baseline transmission effectiveness from a outbreak source prior to the behavior change vs after.
It is a physical fact that a shopper, for example a horder, who can provide source bacterial matter has been increased in likelihood to bring a bag with such matter and then when checking out has an exponential increase in contact with others. There are documented cases of people using hospital bags for their groceries.
- mindslight 9y agoFWIW, your initial comment had two substantive and astute points. But much like the countless unsung plastic bags, you loaded it with shit.
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- ass3r7 9y agofwiw. I read HN daily because the submissions are a fantastic source of raw material. However it is impossible for me to ever debate on it. If I had said in a different context "Dumb as rocks religious theories" or "dumb as rocks conservatives" nobody would even blink. One thing for many here might want to think analytically about is the concept of "civility" and how baised and subjective that is. Certain types of personalities might be able to provide useful analysis but as part of their personality will display aggression in presentation. By having strict policies you create bias in the types of analysis that can be contributed and imho the effect is a strong bias to liberal group think. I'm sure that hurts feelings but thats the issue we need to promote thoughts over feelings to built working solutions for reality.