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Some of us don't mask "just to go to the grocery store". That's HN software engineer privilege, 100%. Many people, including little children, are expected to w
by chitowneats 5y ago
Some of us don't mask "just to go to the grocery store". That's HN software engineer privilege, 100%.
Many people, including little children, are expected to wear these masks 8 hours a day.
You have no idea what damage you are causing for the lower classes, the less fortunate, and American public school children.
Nor do you understand the effect this has had on the campaign for mass vaccination.
I can assure you this is significant. Minority enclaves in my city (Chicago), largely regard masks as "white people bullshit". I work in these communities.
It's not a stretch to see why they apply that same logic to vaccine mandates (even if the vaccines would be beneficial for most of their community).
- nautilius 5y agoWell, we are on HN, are we not? Many people, such as doctors, nurses, certain manufacturing jobs wear masks for much longer stretches of time, for many decades already. They are fine, it works really well. But you are right, I do not understand the effect of mask wearing on vaccination. Care to elaborate?
- chitowneats 5y agoPointless mandates (masks), where the vast majority of the burden falls on the lower classes, while the laptop class pretends to be hard at work while comfortable at home, tend to breed resentment and suspicion of legitimate public health policy and intervention.
- nautilius 5y agoMasks are proven to be effective against transmission. Countries with early mask mandates suffered much less than countries without. I still fail to see the extraordinary “burden” “hardship”, “sacrifice” of - wearing a mask as a proven way to save lives? Would you feel better if there was some medal attached, maybe “Great Hero of the Fight against COVID”?
- chitowneats 5y agoI'm not interested in virtue signaling, thanks. That's the only benefit that mask wearers get. Quite amusing to me that you jump to that. It speaks volumes about what motivates you.
- nautilius 5y agoWell you made it abundantly clear that the mere prospect of contributing to saving hundreds of thousands of lives means nothing to you, so I’m wondering what your motivation is to continue spreading your propaganda.
- chitowneats 5y agoAs an engineer, I'm not concerned with "mere prospects". I'm concerned with what is actually effective.
- nautilius 5y agoWow, what kind of work do you do if you are unable to ever act without having 110% of the information? You can't be building anything, that's for sure.
- chitowneats 5y agoVery telling you responded to this thread but not the other. Are you ready to finally admit you were mistaken about covid vs influenza mortality in children? And to retract your slanderous statements that I was "lying", "spreading propaganda"? I know it's much easier to snipe at me with snide comments like the one above. If that's all that you're interested in, rather than a substantive discussion, well, that wouldn't surprise me given the totality of our interaction over the past few days.