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Wearing a mask is disgusting. Make a suggestion if you like but god help the politician who pushes for permanent compulsion.

pmoriarty 6y ago
So, wait, your offended sense of fashion is worth killing people over?
- neither_color 6y ago
  Telling people theyre killing others is manipulative. Are you ok with banning all cars because you might accidentally run someone over? Every single time you go to the grocery store, school, work, etc you might hit someone. You might hit a tree and only hurt yourself, or you could cause a pileup that takes several others and disrupts the whole city.
  - pmoriarty 6y ago
    That's a strawman, because no one is seriously proposing getting rid of all cars, and there's just no possibility of it happening any time in the foreseeable future. Wearing masks is a real, tangible possibility, and has already been accomplished on a very wide scale, though not everyone has been convinced yet. We are close, though, and the more people get on board, the more lives will be saved. Also, getting rid of cars has many actual practical negative consequences, particularly in places with poor public transportation (much of the US). People without cars in such places can't get to work or shop, not to mention all the deliveries that need to be made by truck. By contrast, there are absolutely no practical negative consequences of wearing a mask. It's a purely cosmetic choice. Why some people value how they look more than another human's life is simply beyond me.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
    I'd be perfectly OK with banning all private cars. At least in cities. They make no sense there.
- JerryBstein 6y ago
  Like everyone else on this site, I don't pride myself on my fashion. It's uncomfortable. It gets hot, sweaty, and stuffy under there. It's inconvenient. The other day, I parked my car and got halfway to the supermarket entrance before realizing I left the damn thing in the car. I was the guy mumbling expletives in the carpark as I backtracked. And, most importantly, it doesn't make sense to me. Nobody in my small city cares. It warms my heart when I see a family or a group of kids playing in public without their bloody masks. If I lived in a more 'multicultural' area where people are flying in from all corners every day, then maybe we'd be more anxious about it, but in our case the general mood is one of bitterness and resentment that we're paying the toll for the city-dwellers crammed into high rise apartments surrounded by sniffling strangers. Forcing the entire population to wear masks to save a few 87 year olds from catching the flu every year is absurd.

pmoriarty 6y ago

So, wait, your offended sense of fashion is worth killing people over?

neither_color 6y ago
Telling people theyre killing others is manipulative. Are you ok with banning all cars because you might accidentally run someone over? Every single time you go to the grocery store, school, work, etc you might hit someone. You might hit a tree and only hurt yourself, or you could cause a pileup that takes several others and disrupts the whole city.
- pmoriarty 6y ago
  That's a strawman, because no one is seriously proposing getting rid of all cars, and there's just no possibility of it happening any time in the foreseeable future. Wearing masks is a real, tangible possibility, and has already been accomplished on a very wide scale, though not everyone has been convinced yet. We are close, though, and the more people get on board, the more lives will be saved. Also, getting rid of cars has many actual practical negative consequences, particularly in places with poor public transportation (much of the US). People without cars in such places can't get to work or shop, not to mention all the deliveries that need to be made by truck. By contrast, there are absolutely no practical negative consequences of wearing a mask. It's a purely cosmetic choice. Why some people value how they look more than another human's life is simply beyond me.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
  I'd be perfectly OK with banning all private cars. At least in cities. They make no sense there.
JerryBstein 6y ago
Like everyone else on this site, I don't pride myself on my fashion. It's uncomfortable. It gets hot, sweaty, and stuffy under there. It's inconvenient. The other day, I parked my car and got halfway to the supermarket entrance before realizing I left the damn thing in the car. I was the guy mumbling expletives in the carpark as I backtracked. And, most importantly, it doesn't make sense to me. Nobody in my small city cares. It warms my heart when I see a family or a group of kids playing in public without their bloody masks. If I lived in a more 'multicultural' area where people are flying in from all corners every day, then maybe we'd be more anxious about it, but in our case the general mood is one of bitterness and resentment that we're paying the toll for the city-dwellers crammed into high rise apartments surrounded by sniffling strangers. Forcing the entire population to wear masks to save a few 87 year olds from catching the flu every year is absurd.