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You're protecting yourself, so where's the problem? Proposing government mandated mask wearing for everyone for the rest of our lives is absolutely insane.

ben_w 3y ago
No more so than any other item of clothing, the rules on which vary wildly by era and culture. Why are women's, and only women's, nipples banned on Facebook and in many cases in public? Usual answer is to protect minors, but the biological purpose of the milk-producing glands they're attached to and after which the taxonomic class of "mammal" is named… is to feed infants. Banning male nipples would be less weird. When the first Labour MP went to Westminster, he was criticised for the wrong kind of hat. Used to be illegal for women to wear men's clothes in France (until 2013 technically if not in practice); and Florida is apparently considering treating the opposite as an inherently sexual act. While face masks do have non-zero impact in some cases, that impact is much rarer and smaller than the discourse around it would imply — fursuiters can dance in much more restricted facewear.
chx 3y ago
> Proposing government mandated mask wearing for everyone for the rest of our lives is absolutely insane. why? We have gotten accustomed to seatbelts despite cries about restricting freedoms, wrinkling clothes etc. "no shirt, no shoes, no service" is also common and extremely few people rally against it. At airports we absolutely debase ourselves despite it is known the current security measures are just security theatre. (Boycotting this would be trivial: if everyone opted out of full body scanners the entire system would collapse in hours.) Meanwhile N95 masks are proven to be effective against infecting others. In other words, you need to give some reason to this besides the emotional absolutely insane.

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You're protecting yourself, so where's the problem? Proposing government mandated mask wearing for everyone for the rest of our lives is absolutely insane.

by somedude895 3y ago

ben_w 3y ago
No more so than any other item of clothing, the rules on which vary wildly by era and culture. Why are women's, and only women's, nipples banned on Facebook and in many cases in public? Usual answer is to protect minors, but the biological purpose of the milk-producing glands they're attached to and after which the taxonomic class of "mammal" is named… is to feed infants. Banning male nipples would be less weird. When the first Labour MP went to Westminster, he was criticised for the wrong kind of hat. Used to be illegal for women to wear men's clothes in France (until 2013 technically if not in practice); and Florida is apparently considering treating the opposite as an inherently sexual act. While face masks do have non-zero impact in some cases, that impact is much rarer and smaller than the discourse around it would imply — fursuiters can dance in much more restricted facewear.
chx 3y ago
> Proposing government mandated mask wearing for everyone for the rest of our lives is absolutely insane. why? We have gotten accustomed to seatbelts despite cries about restricting freedoms, wrinkling clothes etc. "no shirt, no shoes, no service" is also common and extremely few people rally against it. At airports we absolutely debase ourselves despite it is known the current security measures are just security theatre. (Boycotting this would be trivial: if everyone opted out of full body scanners the entire system would collapse in hours.) Meanwhile N95 masks are proven to be effective against infecting others. In other words, you need to give some reason to this besides the emotional absolutely insane.