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If you are contagious, you are best staying home and not going out. Pretty much period. As such, if you have reason to think that you could give someone covid

by taeric 4y ago

If you are contagious, you are best staying home and not going out. Pretty much period. As such, if you have reason to think that you could give someone covid, stay home. Hopefully we have reached a point where folks are ok doing this when they are sick later in life. (I certainly hope we encourage folks to stay home when sick from now on.) With the major caveat that we don't afford that luxury to the vast majority of workers out there. Instead we seem to push a narrative that if the worker does the right precautions, they can return to work with no risk in getting others sick. Which, just doesn't seem to pan out.

superkuh 4y ago
The majority of sars-cov-2 infections are asymptomatic and they always have been. Additionally it's significantly transmissive for days before symptoms happen when they do happen.
- taeric 4y ago
  Down this path lies "always where a mask." Which I doubt even you are advocating for? For hand washing, I'm comfortable with that. For the mask? Princess Bride quotes not withstanding, I don't see it happening. And to be clear, for some things, where the cost of the preventative measure is essentially zero, I'm fine with this. Driving a car? You have to buckle up. Riding a bus? Things change. And that last is an important point. Nuance in policy is more than just "is there a risk" but also "does the mitigation of the risk encourage worse behavior?" If requiring seat belts on busses reduced capacity of busses and reduced ridership on said bus, with a corresponding increase in cars, that would be a bad decision. Now, does that directly apply to masks? I don't think so, but I do think a ton of the energy that was being directed at masking would be amazing to reclaim if it doesn't work at the society level.
  - superkuh 4y ago
    I didn't mean to imply I supported using physical violence (government regulation) to force people to wear masks in public buildings. I am only stating that those chosing not to are doing something that is at the minimum, extremely rude. Half of them are (not) doing it because they are lazy and life is hard, half are doing it because they're ignorant assholes. Both groups deserve a middle finger... but not a cop attacking them.

by taeric 4y ago

superkuh 4y ago

The majority of sars-cov-2 infections are asymptomatic and they always have been. Additionally it's significantly transmissive for days before symptoms happen when they do happen.

taeric 4y ago
Down this path lies "always where a mask." Which I doubt even you are advocating for? For hand washing, I'm comfortable with that. For the mask? Princess Bride quotes not withstanding, I don't see it happening. And to be clear, for some things, where the cost of the preventative measure is essentially zero, I'm fine with this. Driving a car? You have to buckle up. Riding a bus? Things change. And that last is an important point. Nuance in policy is more than just "is there a risk" but also "does the mitigation of the risk encourage worse behavior?" If requiring seat belts on busses reduced capacity of busses and reduced ridership on said bus, with a corresponding increase in cars, that would be a bad decision. Now, does that directly apply to masks? I don't think so, but I do think a ton of the energy that was being directed at masking would be amazing to reclaim if it doesn't work at the society level.
- superkuh 4y ago
  I didn't mean to imply I supported using physical violence (government regulation) to force people to wear masks in public buildings. I am only stating that those chosing not to are doing something that is at the minimum, extremely rude. Half of them are (not) doing it because they are lazy and life is hard, half are doing it because they're ignorant assholes. Both groups deserve a middle finger... but not a cop attacking them.