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What misinformation am I spreading? I think you are misunderstanding me. I am not saying vaccines and masks have no benefit. Vaccines have a substantial person
by pcmoney 5y ago
What misinformation am I spreading? I think you are misunderstanding me.
I am not saying vaccines and masks have no benefit. Vaccines have a substantial personal benefit and a more marginal communal benefit.
Mask done perfectly have a decent personal and communal benefit. However, masks are not done perfectly and never will be.
The question is should we have mandates? Should we have vaccine mandates along the lines of “get the vaccine or get fired?” for marginal and waning communal benefit. If so should we extend this marginal logic to other marginally communally beneficial prevention measures? Eg. Protests are spreader events. These hurt the community. Attend a protest and you’re fired. I don’t think either is reasonable.
In regards to mask mandates we are forcing kids to wear masks at school but we are not mandating adults wear masks at restaurants, bars, movie theatres, concerts, football games etc. It doesn’t matter if the kids had perfect mask compliance (and they dont) the exposure to adults is everywhere. Also mask mandates do not impact behavior much. So why do we have them for students? I think it is mostly because adults want security theater and are used to telling kids to do something they themselves are unwilling to do.