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They may have deliberately chosen a simple, easily understood, and easily enforced rule. Simplicity is a virtue in public communication. Creating a norm of ma
by michael1999 6y ago
They may have deliberately chosen a simple, easily understood, and easily enforced rule. Simplicity is a virtue in public communication. Creating a norm of masks-in-public does the job.
Otherwise, you have the cranks out there litigating endless edge cases and before you know it, the anti-maskers are in the elevator, sneezing on you.
- vorpalhex 6y agoTheir intent may have been simplification but they have certainly crossed into the territory of being incorrect. Nor can one use a slippery slope argument.. while arguing against a slippery slope. It is possible to have clear distinctions: "Are you outside and generally six feet away? Great, you can take your mask off."
- angry_octet 6y agoThe six feet rule is unfortunately exactly the type of rule which results in pushing the envelope. People will stand 5ft away and tell you to measure it. In contrast, masks off at all is easy to enforce.
- anoncake 6y agoThen make it seven feet or whatever number works so people pushing the envelope are still doing what you want.
- angry_octet 6y agoAuthority: "To be maskless, you must be more than 100ft from anyone from a different bubble." Mr Common Sense: "That's a ridiculous rule, just say wear a mask outside." Mr Epi: "That's excessive, aerosol is only going to travel a few meters." Mr Defiant: "I didn't see him. How can I see everywhere. I was putting my mask on." Mr Whatabout: "But I can take my mask off in a barber shop, therefore I should need to take other precautions." Anyone who has dealt with a 7 year old will know how pointless this argument is. If police are using this to harass people that is a problem. But the problem is with the police, they can fit you up already with almost no difficulty. You're really complaining that they're doing it to white people now.
- anoncake 6y agoI have no idea what your country's racism problem has to do with this. Nor why it's populated by 7 year old strawchildren.
- angry_octet 6y agoI can see that you don't want to wear a mask outside. Also, that you may be a 7 year old.
- londons_explore 6y agoIf you're far enough away that someone can't see if you have a mask or not, you're fine to remove it...
- leetcrew 6y ago"masks within n feet of others" is also simple, easily understood, and easily enforced (if any of the enforcers actually care to). it has the added benefit of respecting people's intelligence. requiring people to wear masks while alone in the middle of a park does not increase the average level of trust placed in official guidance.
- tdeck 6y agoIs it though? During the early stages of the pandemic I noticed that many people seem to have a pretty poor idea of what a six foot distance looks like.
- starkd 6y agoThere's a reason why free societies are reluctant to put arbitrary orders in place. In society that values freedom, it simply feels too much like an authoritarian move. It rankles the populace. Such measures have always been about public education and not enforcement. Probably much greater compliance without the debate. There was no need for this to be politicized.