Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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EricHiggin said:

curl-6 said:

Again, your driving analogy is not equivalent because we do enforce safety measures on drivers.

We are in a global crisis. Expecting to be able to go on with life as usual without any regard for the consequences to others is absurd and selfish.

Life as usual didn't use to include vehicular travel, yet now it does, and we've just lived with the growing consequences like it's no big deal. Sounds kind of absurd and selfish to me. I wonder what the natives think?

As Torillian says, comparing motor travel to a pandemic is a stretch to begin with, but if we're just going to loosely compare them as things that can cause death, we enforce safety regulations on drivers to minimise said death toll. Mandating masks during a pandemic of an airborne virus is no different in this context to making people follow the speed limit.