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I'm unsure why you wouldn't consider wearing a mask to "be the right thing" I don't think anybody is saying that masks are a panacea - that would be "everybody
by goldcd 6y ago
I'm unsure why you wouldn't consider wearing a mask to "be the right thing"
I don't think anybody is saying that masks are a panacea - that would be "everybody stay home until we have a working vaccine".
However, they seem a completely sensible thing that you can do that reduces transmission (so some extent at least), whilst allowing you to go about your normal life relatively unimpeded.
A bit like speed limits on the road - something legally enforceable that 'generally' reduces risk for us all. You can make exceptions as to why you don't feel you need to comply "There was nobody else on the road", "I'm a great driver", "My car has auto-braking" or "German autobahns don't have limits and are safer" - but most of the world has decided it's safer that most roads should have a limit.
- ezekg 6y agoThere are other ways. I encourage you to research The Great Barrington Declaration.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoWhy someone would trust a libertarian think tank when it comes to epidemiology is beyond me. You'd like to know: what do the Koch brothers do? We know that they say, but do they take their own medicine?
- ezekg 6y agoDo you dismiss everything that disagrees with your political ideology?
- theplague42 6y agoSurely you understand the meaning of "follow the money."
- goldcd 6y agoNo. Although you never actually got back to me when I read your suggestion and pointed out they didn't say we shouldn't be wearing masks.
- goldcd 6y agoI just did. Seems 'fine' - more lenient that I'd go, but I'd agree that interminable lock-down of low-risk people is a bad idea. But we don't have that. Doesn't mention masks at all.