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Your premise is flawed. Yellow shirts don't kill people. Not wearing a mask does not kill people. Letting a TSA officer fondle your groin doesn't save people's
by ScottFree 6y ago
Your premise is flawed. Yellow shirts don't kill people. Not wearing a mask does not kill people. Letting a TSA officer fondle your groin doesn't save people's lives. It's all security theater.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- enraged_camel 6y ago>> Not wearing a mask does not kill people. This is demonstrably false, as we now know for a fact that wearing a mask does reduce the risk of both catching the virus yourself and transmitting it to other people. Even if you don't care about your own well-being, common courtesy dictates you should care about the well-being of others. Failing to do so may indeed get them killed.
- ScottFree 6y agohttps://imgur.com/a/Q8KemVp https://imgur.com/a/Q8KemVp
- oblio 6y agoIt's a mask! Not handcuffs! Cut the clichés.
- ScottFree 6y agoOne of the core foundations of our entire civilization is a cliche to you? And it is handcuffs. Literally. It's a judicial order.
- krapp 6y agoIt's not a core foundation of our entire civilization, it's a quote by Benjamin Franklin and the actual context in which it was said doesn't even support your argument[0]. I guarantee that if a plague were spreading through early America (in an alternate universe where they knew what epidemiology was, obviously) Ben Franklin wouldn't be on the side of people protesting quarantines and masks. [0]https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-benjamin-franklins-quote-on-liberty-vs-security/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be...
- paulryanrogers 6y agoHandcuffs if you don't wear the mask, in enclosed public spaces. Heaven forbid your right to be maskless be suspended so those of us who don't want to risk lung damage or death can be safe.
- ScottFree 6y agoHow about suspending the rights of the people burning down businesses, tearing down statues and killing people in the streets instead? > or death Stop being dramatic. You have a better chance of dying in a car accident.
- oblio 6y agoMany people can't avoid driving or being driven (to work, school, and etc). Helping others not get sick of a disease we have no treatment for is a minor inconvenience. At this point your comments are just obtuse or trolling. And who dragged the US protests into this conversation?
- happytoexplain 6y ago>"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Whether or not you think masks help, this is wildly over-dramatic thing to say about an order to wear a mask in public temporarily. I'd even say it disrespects the quote.
- arzel 6y agoCommon sense is truly a luxury.
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- andrewacove 6y agoYour response is flawed. Not wearing a mask is not an essential liberty. And yes, if large numbers of Americans don't wear masks, that will kill more people than would die if we all wore our masks. It's not theater.
- coding123 6y agoWe also have a society that requires clothing. And that doesn't even KILL people. Yet we handcuff -> jail nudists anyway. One major exception is pretty much 97% of the state of Oregon, where that is 100% legal.
- ScottFree 6y agoAnd yet we allow people to drive cars, which has a much higher mortality rate than covid. Also, you don't find the timing curious? Everybody forgot about covid for a few weeks while half the country was on fire. Fires die down and we're back to the covid scare mongering.