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Conclusion sparked by the thought that nobody can be stupid enough to believe masking/not-masking is a purely personally risky behavior. You have to willfully ignore how you're socializing your risk. The "tell" is the companion eugenics focus on "only old/sick are vulnerable"
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I suspect you overestimate the average person's capacity for clear reasoning. Yes, a blanket anti-mask stance is dumb, but you might be focusing on the most embarrassing & poorly communicated offshoots from a space where there is some truth:
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Two important points: 1. Most of us are wearing masks that are not tight enough to our face to prevent vapor + aerosol from escaping out the sides. 2. Indoor transmission seems to make up the bulk of all transmission. The formula involves time, volume, etc.
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These are fairly uncontroversial points I hope. From this we can conclude that outdoor masking is pretty much pointless except in close proximity and face to face. We can also conclude that messaging about indoor transmission is at best overly reductionist.
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they're uncontroversial but also orthogonal to my point, which is that nobody is so dumb they don't get that transmission is a thing, which means binary 0/1 "principled" anti-mask stances are malicious... it means the person is willing to kill vulnerable people to score points