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I've thought the mandates were stupid right from the start. Don't get me wrong, I am not an anti-masker, and I work in healthcare so I've worn a mask every day
by firebat45 3y ago
I've thought the mandates were stupid right from the start. Don't get me wrong, I am not an anti-masker, and I work in healthcare so I've worn a mask every day for the last 3 years.
But forcing people who do not want to wear masks to wear them is just a waste of masks. They aren't wearing them properly or effectively. Hell, a large portion of people who support masks aren't wearing them properly. This is why you see so many people with masks around their chin or below their nose. Might as well have just thrown the mask straight into the garbage.
Any miniscule benefit from forced masking is outweighed by the oppositionary reaction to being forced to do something you don't want to do. Now you have people protesting masks and purposefully wearing them wrong in the name of "muh freedoms".
- encoderer 3y agoIt was really a sad episode in American history. I suppose it’s been 100 years since Prohibition so we needed a reminder that Americans really do not like having individual liberties infringed. It can’t work here - and that is by design.
- jjeaff 3y agoI agree that required masking wasn't very beneficial to those who didn't want to wear a mask, but it seems very likely to me that it still would have helped reduce spread from those people. Even a poor fitting, poor material mask does a good job of capturing or slowing moisture and other infection carrying materials from leaving the mouth of an infected person.