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No thanks. Even pre-covid people were terrible about being sick in public, coughing on planes, etc. I hope the mask mandates stay, especially for places where
by rubicon33 5y ago
No thanks. Even pre-covid people were terrible about being sick in public, coughing on planes, etc.
I hope the mask mandates stay, especially for places where distancing is hard. Everyone who knowingly exposes others to illness is at least forced to reduce the trajectory of their droplet spread somewhat now.
- spookthesunset 5y ago> I hope the mask mandates stay, especially for places where distancing is hard. Somehow up until now, society has managed to function just fine without everybody wearing masks all the time. How do you even know masks work? Trusting some rushed research done in the middle of all this with tons of outside pressure to get the "correct" result? Even if masks do work, to what extent? And seriously, society has done fine without them. Plus, I dunno about anybody else but masks are a pain in the ass and I like seeing faces... if I had to wear a mask all the time that would have a substantial impact on my mental health (not to say it already has had impact on my mental health)
- tunesmith 5y agoAre you unaware of the large mask use studies? Like here's one that made the national news fairly recently: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-masks-covid-19.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-mask...
- spookthesunset 5y agoI've seen that study but masks are so grounded in people's political identity at this point I have a hard time trusting any research conducted. Any scientist publishing a paper saying there is no evidence masks work is gonna commit career suicide. Even if it did get published I bet a ton of money Twitter, FB and friends would all label it misinformation and all the "experts" would find ways to rip it to shreds. One cannot question Covid orthodoxy without getting burned.