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Universal mask wearing is not a lockdown. It’s the opposite: Mask mandates make society accessible to many more people, especially those at higher risk.
@luckytran@med-mastodon.comIt’s hypocritical for COVID minimizers to complain about lockdowns, and then refuse to wear masks.
By not wearing masks when there is high COVID spread, they are essentially consigning many higher risk people to being locked out of society indefinitely.
@luckytran It's not hypocritical; it's a statement of dominance. Other people must sacrifice their well-being for the minimizers' convenience. The minimizers must never be asked to sacrifice their convenience for others' well-being.
@KeithAmmann @luckytran
Yup.
They are such spoiled special princess snowflakes that their convenience is more important than other people's lives.
@KeithAmmann @luckytran it's both, for sure.
@luckytran yep. Pretty selfish really. Or just completely dumb. Or maybe both.
@luckytran It's impossible not to think at this point that this is in fact part of their goal.
@WestCoastChelle its a lost cause. it has become political and there is no way back. unless people start bleeding from their eyeballs and dropping dead in the streets, these people will never comply.
@WestCoastChelle oh and i add - the only reason they would comply is to save their OWN ass.
@ask330 I'm honestly not certain even that would do it...
But I'm with you, I try not to give in to it, but there's a level of just bleak despair and inability to see a way forward.
@luckytran The cruelty is the point.
@commchf @luckytran Echo(echo)(echo)(echo)…
@luckytran they act as though masks and lockdowns are the same.
@Dj1au @luckytran and in the US, there really were no lockdowns. People might have worked online, but they could still go to the store, post office, etc.
It was suggested people stay home. In the eyes of Trumpers you might as well have posted snipers outside their door.
Hypocritical? Yes!
Consigning higher risk people to being locked out? Yes!
And that's just the neighbors!
@luckytran many people complaining about masks come at it from this perspective but at some point the question has to be asked, what is the long term plan here that doesn’t require billions of people to all make the same decision constantly? 1/
@luckytran There was some good talk for awhile about indoor air quality standards allowing society to function and holding covid transmission down, but without a goal like this to work towards some people will always revolt against “masks forever” because wearing an N95 is not pleasant and a person needs a level of systemic comprehension and self control everyone doesn't possess to wear an n95 forever despite this. 2/
@luckytran Masks almost seem like giving up on water treatment, akin to saying the solution to cholera is for each person to boil all drinking water forever. While that technically solves the problem it puts all the onus on individuals to take universal individual action in perpetuity. Collective action problems are hard precisely because the ratio of individual cost to individual benefit is not enough to get individuals to act on its own. 3/
@luckytran And while I agree that these people suck, yelling about how much they suck doesn't actually fix anything. What's really needed to protect the vulnerable is a system that will protect them regardless of what whacko opinions those around them have fallen into believing or what dominance games those people wish to play. Covid deniers are obstacles we must work around not people we can change by yelling at them enough. 4/4
@luckytran Not one right winger I've encountered on social media has expressed any concern that they might infect someone else. They simply don't think that way. It's all about their personal risk. Consequently, they seek to take the "public" out of public health. #covid #covid19 #cspanwj
@luckytran Yes. That's the plan.
@luckytran I've argued this point many times, especially with people out in the so-called "real world" - simply weraing a mask and avoiding crowded spaces where possible would help stop the spread, and having Government enact simple policies (pre-entry testing at borders, track and trace, free testing, etc) we could bring it right down pretty quickly.
But no, "What about my mental health?" they rage.
What about the mental health of those who haven't left their houses in almost 3 years?
@luckytran They know they're not going to be affected by any mitigation rules going forward (we all know there's never going to be another lockdown), and they don't give any thought to anyone else. It comes back to that "I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People" article.