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What I'm pointing out it is that, whether people acknowledge it or not, they're treating everyone as though they're infected. So something like masking is requ
by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
What I'm pointing out it is that, whether people acknowledge it or not, they're treating everyone as though they're infected.
So something like masking is required even if someone seems healthy. It's a regime of constant anxiety and latching onto any and every doom scenario.
So with the same logic, we should be assuming every sex partner has an incurable STI. Especially with the emerging threat of antibiotic-resistant strains, the most risk-avoidant with respect to SARS-CoV-2 would only be consistent by likewise being in favor of extreme measures like mandated condoms, quarantining, forced testing, etc. with something like STIs.
I don't agree with this at all - but it's clear that there's a fixation with COVID that doesn't get applied to other large aspects of society.
If we care about people's health - why don't we lock up fat people and force feed them a strict diet until they're a healthy weight? It's hard for me to see anything under the current public health/political regime that wouldn't justify this.
- perl4ever 5y agoI guess a lot of people (extrapolating somewhat from myself) feel like wearing a mask when you go in a building other than your home is not extreme nor has it been enforced in an extreme way, contrasting with your hypotheticals. From what I read on the internet, it's long been a custom in many places in the far east to wear a mask whenever one has or might have the cold or flu or whatever. At this point, I'm thinking why shouldn't we westerners adopt that, going forward? It appears that wearing masks drastically reduced flu transmission, which seems logical given that it's much less contagious than covid-19. That presumably saved many lives. And the common cold is not worth developing an advanced vaccine against, but what would we be losing if we prevent its transmission? So I don't see why masks are a bad thing even if covid vanished tomorrow. There are so many measures we take to mitigate things that have substantial known and unknown risks, so it's mysterious to me why people are so vehemently against one with no downsides.
- xxxxxxx12 5y ago> so it's mysterious to me why people are so vehemently against one with no downsides Humans have millions of years of evolution searing into their DNA the impulse to socialize with other humans. I think you're underestimating the effect of completely obscuring the face - how people indicate subtle social cues, emote, and communicate. This ignores that masking is a nuisance, I don't care what other people say: they're virtue-signalling, Stockholm syndrome victims in my opinion. Breathing fresh air, unabated, is one of the greatest pleasures in life.