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It's actually very annoying to wear a mask. Also, I don't want to be thinking 24/7 about the virus, and the mask reminds me of it. I can't count how many hours I have personally wasted thinking about the virus this year. That surely must go into the bottom line of prevention measures.
Annoying to a thousand people is better than even one lost life that could have been prevented.
(In all honesty THIS idea of selfish freedom is why western countries all fared so poorly during this pandemic.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every time I leave the bay area to go somewhere hiking, the towns I pass through are full of both (a) Trump flags and (b) people not wearing masks. Two weeks ago, employees at local bakeries near Mt. Shasta weren't wearing masks in the kitchen. Even the employees at Taco Bell Drive Thru near Mt. Shasta weren't wearing masks (they had their masks off their nose). Complained via Taco Bell website and got no response. T…
Have you thought that they have better grasp on the risks involved than you especially if their communities are not devastated by the virus? Some uncertainty in one's beliefs can be beneficial sometimes.
It's actually very annoying to wear a mask. Also, I don't want to be thinking 24/7 about the virus, and the mask reminds me of it. I can't count how many hours I have personally wasted thinking about the virus this year. That surely must go into the bottom line of prevention measures.
> very annoying to wear a mask Annoying to a thousand people is better than even one lost life that could have been prevented. (In all honesty THIS idea of selfish freedom is why western countries all fared so poorly during this pandemic.)
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I'm a layman, but the citations at the end of this article seem compelling.
I can't buy it, European citizens almost all have to wear masks and we can clearly see that this measure alone doesn't seem to have an impact on the epidemic as the speed of the increase of cases is more or less the same that what we had in march. And nobody was wearing masks at that time.
Since the number of infected people have increased, the rate of infection should also increase. If it remains same, then there is an actual reduction
Aren’t everyone living in dense areas require to wear masks already anyway?
Every time I leave the bay area to go somewhere hiking, the towns I pass through are full of both (a) Trump flags and (b) people not wearing masks. Two weeks ago, employees at local bakeries near Mt. Shasta weren't wearing masks in the kitchen. Even the employees at Taco Bell Drive Thru near Mt. Shasta weren't wearing masks (they had their masks off their nose). Complained via Taco Bell website and got no response. T…
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I don't think anybody is saying that masks are a panacea - that would be "everybody stay home until we have a working vaccine".
However, they seem a completely sensible thing that you can do that reduces transmission (so some extent at least), whilst allowing you to go about your normal life relatively unimpeded.
A bit like speed limits on the road - something legally enforceable that 'generally' reduces risk for us all. You can make exceptions as to why you don't feel you need to comply "There was nobody else on the road", "I'm a great driver", "My car has auto-braking" or "German autobahns don't have limits and are safer" - but most of the world has decided it's safer that most roads should have a limit.
It's actually very annoying to wear a mask. Also, I don't want to be thinking 24/7 about the virus, and the mask reminds me of it. I can't count how many hours I have personally wasted thinking about the virus this year. That surely must go into the bottom line of prevention measures.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/11/fac...