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Why is covid different than riding a motorcycle? Would you agree with this analogy: "Going out into crowded public spaces unmasked and unvaccinated ... is not
by vanusa 5y ago
Why is covid different than riding a motorcycle?
Would you agree with this analogy:
"Going out into crowded public spaces unmasked and unvaccinated ... is not unlike riding a motorcycle without a helmet. And with a busted taillight and bad brakes too, because you're also putting other people at risk."
- notch656a 5y agoThe mask is like having disc brakes. No mask is like having drum breaks. Walking up to someone and coughing in their face is no brakes. You may be more likely to save a life with the disc brakes, but I admit I occasionally ride bikes with drum brakes instead. Being vaccinated is a strong tail light (having already had COVID before may be a strong tail light too). Being unvaccinated but never caught COVID is a legal but moderate tail light. Being deathly ill but sneezing on the produce is no tail light.
- drugstorecowboy 5y agoWonderful, so I take it you are advocating that anybody who drives a motorcycle with no tail light and drum brakes should be left to die outside the hospital if something happens? Would that be an accurate assessment of your position?
- notch656a 5y agoNot at all.
- nradov 5y agoI would not agree with that analogy regarding masks. Nor, I suspect, would noted expert on infectious diseases Dr. Monica Gandhi. I recommend you listen to her recent statements on the subject. https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/ https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/ https://profiles.ucsf.edu/monica.gandhi https://profiles.ucsf.edu/monica.gandhi
- vanusa 5y agoI'm not sure what you're driving at, because she clearly doesn't think that "masks" as such are ineffective - just the cloth/surgical masks -- she advocates N95/KN95. Which of course are what everyone should be wearing now (in close public settings), by this point. Also, the discussion in that podcast is a bit strange (for a bunch of reasons). For one thing, it seems to reduce the "mask question" to one of individual (or close family) risk -- "If I'm comfortable with the risk level (as affects me and my family), I should be able to decide whether to wear a mask or not (paraphrasing)" -- and completely sidesteps the community risk issue (especially in crowded public settings). Which is very different, and is of course what mask mandates (whether you agree with them or not) are designed to address. For another, it dwells a lot on the "shame" and (what they think of) as quasi-religious aspects of mask wearing - this idea that people expect others to wear masks because those who do not are "unclean". Which may be what some people think, but to suggest that this is what most people think or that this should be part of the policy debate is just ... werid.