Right now I'm in Wyoming, where the most byzantine social distancing theater is enforced (by stickers on floors and selectively closing entrance doors), but mask wearing is at maybe 5%. We really are living in the dumbest timeline.
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Here's the covid-19 trajectory in Japan, which had uncontrolled spread at least twice and contained it. It's a major first-world economy where life can go on as normal. Were masks the main reason? I don't know, but it's beyond stupid that we're not copying the tactic to find out.pic.twitter.com/Yf5KTOBB3f
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I wrote a thing in March about the many reasons we should make it a social norm to wear masks. I wrote it while mask wearing was still against US medical advice, and waited until the official CDC guidelines changed to post it. I think it has held up well. https://idlewords.com/2020/04/let_s_all_wear_a_mask.htm …
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For me it's made worse by the fact that there seem to be so many dumb Americans. I honestly never could have imagined the number of incredibly ignorant folks in the US. I knew there were plenty due to who we have as president, but this just made it easier to see.
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The fact that an ordinary, non-radical historian wrote _Anti-Intellectualism In American Life_ and _The Paranoid Style In American Politics_, in 1963 and 1965, and they're still worth reading, can tell you a lot even without reading the books.
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https://hbr.org/2020/06/we-need-better-masks … what's weird to me is that there isn't a big push to subsidize the manufacturing of better masks for those of us who do wear them.
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I feel like this is partly a failure of marketing. One side has successfully marketed the idea that masks = tyranny. We have failed to match that narrative with anything compelling, like masks are effective, or it's your duty to protect others. Just wishy-washy half-measures.
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Masks is possibly one big thing, but Japan did a lot more. Schools, restaurants, gyms, theatres, concerts, museums avoidance or closures did a lot. But people were also extremely self disciplined on top of that. As an example the desertion of shinkansen was quite impressive.
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Schools re-opened just as numbers were climbing in early April. There was not lot of social distancing, restaurants and clubs stayed open, people did not have as much of an opportunity to work from home as in the US. All of this was well covered in the press.
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