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This is the logic that led to people recommending against masks: wearing masks would give people a false sense of security, and they'd start touching each other
by wizzwizz4 5y ago
This is the logic that led to people recommending against masks: wearing masks would give people a false sense of security, and they'd start touching each others' eyeballs.
Turns out, that's not how human psychology works. If people are doing something, then other people feel like they can, too; if everybody's waiting for the big solution that will actually be worth doing (but won't ever happen, for political reasons)?
- playpause 5y ago“Turns out, that's not how human psychology works.” - source?
- wizzwizz4 5y agoSource: the great experiment that we all did. People who wore masks over the past couple of years were generally more cautious if anything, not less.
- playpause 5y agoWhat makes you think the causation is that way round?
- krageon 5y agoWhat makes you think that it is not?
- playpause 5y agoMy guess would be that cautious people are more likely to wear masks in the first place, and this would explain the correlation you've noticed between mask-wearing and being cautious. But I don't know for sure. Perhaps mask-wearing also makes uncautious people become more cautious, but I haven't seen anything to support that.