I suspect these will change but even without vaccination, outdoor spread was rarer and confined to prolonged, close contact (under one's control) and people can get vaccinated and/or wear a mask themselves. Mandates make sense when risk is high and individual protections limited.https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1389017564421009410 …
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The bigger issue is mandates also signal and educate about risk. If misinformed, it's harder direct resources to vulnerable populations under real risk, i.e. how we spent a year worrying about beaches while workers—many poorer and minority—disproportionately suffered and died.
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So it's tempting to say who cares, but when in this context—a year of shutting down outdoor access, ignoring risks to workers while calling them "essential" and blaming the victims while shaming people for safe activities—it matters. If the rest weren't there, yeah who cares.
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I'm not really concerned if individuals chose to be more cautious—and we should not judge, and everyone has their own circumstances, none of our business. I'm concerned because we've been shutting down the safest activities for a whole year, and not supporting those at real risk.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Michael Daniels
Clearer on the news. The key for me is that I’m still seeing all sorts of outdoor stuff being banned and *curfews* around the world. (DC just banned *standing* along with dancing in outdoor weddings if I am reading their order correctly).https://twitter.com/mdaniels5757/status/1389230002043072516 …
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Michael Daniels @mdaniels5757Replying to @zeynepThe quoted tweet is misleading. Brookline is just not rescinding the order immediately without input from their Advisory Council on Public Health (https://www.brooklinema.gov/653/Advisory-Council-on-Public-Health …), which meets in a couple of weeks.4 replies 7 retweets 93 likesShow this thread -
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I've heard the DC news is not what is being reported, bad messaging but not an actual ban
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You tell me. Doesn't distinguish outdoors and indoors which is my beef with all this https://coronavirus.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/page_content/attachments/M.O.%202021-060%20Modified%20Measures%20in%20Phase%20Two%20of%20Washington%20DC%20Reopening.pdf …pic.twitter.com/TkMjaUCTXt
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"in any room" seems to mean indoors, at least implicitly, no?
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