That's my take. I see zero evidence of it - as opposed to some people saying, wow, I really prefer working from home, etc. I think there's a lot of people wanting to think that there are some other weird people keeping them locked down, as opposed to covid locking them down.
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Replying to @joshtpm @TaylorLorenz and
Maybe. I'm so traumatized by this year that I get upset, maybe irrationally so, by suggestions that any of it is permanent. And I follow all public health guidance on masks but probably hate them as much as the most egregious anti-maskers so I hope they don't become a norm.
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Replying to @michelleinbklyn @TaylorLorenz and
I mean, I've found the last year a downer too? And I get what you're saying. It is traumatic. It is horrible. Wish it'd never happened and wish it would end. All of it. But I do sense that some people have found a need to conjure these people up because it's hard to be mad ...
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Replying to @joshtpm @TaylorLorenz and
Obviously we'll see in a few months. I think
@zeynep is right here: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/how-polarization-ate-our-brains …pic.twitter.com/nQRQ3aGfQZ
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Replying to @michelleinbklyn @joshtpm and
I think one potential trajectory is not that people *want* to stay in this mode, but will not feel safe enough to let go of some mitigations, which is acceptable as an individual decision but comes with costs, but that this will also extend into policy fights. But who knows?
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Replying to @zeynep @michelleinbklyn and
I think the first point is probably expected for some and human nature. People are deeply traumatized. On the policy front, I really doubt this is an issue because the very strong public policy tendency has been to loosen at the first sign of even slight case rate declines.
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Replying to @joshtpm @michelleinbklyn and
Agree, not blaming people. On the latter: we are often loosening the wrong things at the first sign. We should have relaxed outdoor mask requirements by April 2020, for example, and probably should have only as last step relaxed unmasked/high-aerosol indoor activities.
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Most mask mandates require masks outdoors only when the wearer would not be able to maintain 6 foot distance. From others. Doesn't that still make sense? Why not better explain outdoor mask requirements instead of relaxing them?
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Replying to @oblivious_dude @joshtpm and
No, it does not make sense. Masks outdoors make sense only for *extended* contact in very close proximity (especially if talking) but indoors, they make sense even if beyond the six feet. The main transmission mode is clearly aerosols, not droplets, and hence those are different.
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Replying to @zeynep @oblivious_dude and
Many of our mask rules are fairly nonsensical, to be honest, and in most places, people have kinda figured it out but... I'm contacted daily by people who work with people not required to mask up indoors "because six feet" and constantly observe pointless mask obsession outdoors.
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Hence, that makes going forward even more difficult because people realize we haven't been fully rational and scientific about this, at least the public health authorities haven't been (though gotten a little better lately, a full year into a pandemic!)
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