you don’t need 100% certainty that it is effective... this is so cheap, the potential upside so high, and the downside so trivial, you should do it even if it’s only 1%
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the dissonance is appalling... 20% of reported deaths from 4% of the world’s population... you should be willing to do any no-cost thing with even the slightest chance of helping
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Florida and Texas are especially appalling. They SAW the disaster unfold in New York. Do they hate liberals so much they’ll kill themselves out of spite rather than learn a sobering lesson and act?
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This is mostly, but not entirely, a red state thing. I do see a lot of non masking here in LA including among minorities. All of the US is a bit trumpie in this.
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There’s also a Hobbesian streak in the US. The idea that some ongoing culling of the weak is a good thing. It’s not exactly eugenics or racism (though those sensibilities are present too at the margins) but a frontier morality. Comes from the same place as the gun fetish.
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I am an american. I believe in my country... but the general populace seems to think an epidemic doesn't affect them. They kill thier elderly without a thought... Lets reopen... lets not let anything affect our liberties... covid cases rise.... as does the believe in flat earth
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Everyone in Hawaii wears them at indoor public places, but, this is a law here...Under most circumstances.
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that’s exactly what i want to bring up whenever i see a freakout/rant about masks. we’ve been doing it for months and we’ve been just fine. it’s really not that big of a deal
people just need to chill
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I've been pondering a blog post that I'm trying to get longer than "Exceptionalism is a hell of a drug."
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I would also include some lack of grasp of math, and hence of the role that even small changes can make in an exponential process https://twitter.com/marco_piani/status/1278549860401152000?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Marco_Piani/status/1278549860401152000 …
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Doubt it. It’s not like the rest of the world is any less innumerate. They just don’t see doing a small prosocial thing as a huge identity threat.
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