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This is a fairly infantile argument, which essentially boils down to: If your defense isn't perfect, it's silly. Wearing a mask isn't to do with perfectly isol
by erulabs 6y ago
This is a fairly infantile argument, which essentially boils down to: If your defense isn't perfect, it's silly.
Wearing a mask isn't to do with perfectly isolating your biological self from society. It's to do with numbers. I would suspect we've _all_ been exposed to at least a few thousand COVID-19 virons - luckily a significant viral load is measured in the billions of particles. Wearing a mask simply decreases the probability of spreading or catching a significant number of particles.
No defense for Cuomo, and agreed about using a video call, but suggesting that there is a hypocrisy in "wear it as much as you can" is silly. This is a bit like suggesting firewalls are pointless since a few IPs are whitelisted, or a coding standard is pointless because a few people don't follow it perfectly.
What the world needs now, more than anything, is pragmatism, not idealism.