every few days the horror strikes me: Americans are so wedded to their identities, certainties, and conveniences they won’t do a near-zero-cost minor annoyance thing like wear masks that could potentially save tens of thousands of lives...
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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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again, lack of terrain-surveying imo. i wont keep beating the dead horse, but just fyi... the correct axis is conspiratorial vs mainstream, not trump vs dnc or red vs blue that explains the minorities etc
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I think you’re wrong here. You’re overindexed on the fringe and underestimating the banality of the core. Conspiratorial imagination is much weaker than sheer lack of imagination.
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or... are you underindexed on the size of the fringe? i personally know and once upon a time lived and worked with the plandemic filmmaker and to watch the tens (hundreds?) of millions of views on that makes me think the scale of the fringe is now ginormous. any way to test?
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Dunno, but I do have my own sigint 
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personally, i would like to hear the input on this one from
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