I've already read several people wondering if we shouldn't wear masks in,for example, public transport, specially if symptomatic, every winter lately. Like some East Asian countries do, in some proportion of the population at least. They make the bullets out of chewing gum latelyhttps://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1312947654826037248 …
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Replying to @SilverVVulpes
Yeah. I'm 100% going to keep wearing masks on public transport after this is done. Framing it as "murdering people" is hyperbolic, but there's genuinely a micromanslaughter rate associated with most ways of being out in public and wearing a mask reduces this.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
idk why people treat it as complicated. or a sign you're 'terrified'. I doubt the people wearing masks in Tokyro metro are terrified of the flu. I'm okay with people making stuff that is dear to them into culture war material, but this *should* be boring and simple
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Replying to @SilverVVulpes
I think people just really don't understand how to reason about fault and consequences in complex systems, partly because it leads to conclusions that they don't like.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @SilverVVulpes
If not wearing a mask leading to someone's death is effectively a murder, this is a standard by which almost everybody is a murderer, and people don't like to confront that.
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(the correct way of reasoning about this is that we have some obligations to consider the statistical consequences of our actions but someone at multiple steps removed dying as a result of them is not a murder, but this is a hard thing to get one's head around)
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