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JWeinCom on 23 April 2022
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sethnintendo said:

To each their own but in USA mask will never be mainstream as in Asia. I'm not an antimasker or whatever. If you want to wear it then wear it. One should follow simple rule if sick then don't go to work or be out in public much but here in USA a lot of low income workers can't afford missing work or have paid time off to be able to miss it. So they show up to work sick.

The reason why USA has more death rates is probably because we are a sick nation. Sure some healthy people that caught it died but majority of deaths are older people and not in best condition of health.

I've probably had it in first few months of outbreak. I was then vaccinated twice with moderna. I was then exposed at work from coworker that showed up for a week coughing working side by side during delta wave. I tested negative after work made us all get tested. Tell me why should I care to wear a mask. I don't encroach on people's space even before pandemic at stores or whatever.

Like any successful virus it is meant to evolve and try spread without killing too many host. So Corona is getting more spreadable but less deadly.

Eventually there will be a compromise between always mask people, anti mask people, etc. If you want to wear a mask wear it. I won't shame you in public but I'll make fun of you to friends in private especially if I see you in a car by yourself wearing a mask.

The reason you should have to wear a mask is because the alternative is inadministratable. I recovered from Covid and should be exceedingly unlikely to get it again and pass it on to anyone at least for a few months. So, there's really no reason I should have to wear a mask on public transit. But, if we make a rule that people in my situation should not have to wear masks, then anyone without a mask will say "oh yeah I just got over Covid too". 

That's kind of just the way a lot of laws work. I'm never going to shoot a kid, but a law that says "you cannot have a gun in a school zone unless you're the kind of person who wouldn't shoot a kid" doesn't work. There are 17 year olds out there who would probably handle alcohol more maturely than 22 year olds, but a law that says "no buying alcohol under 21 unless you're very mature" doesn't work. It's simply impossible to laser target laws like that. We can't have laws that say "speed limit is 55 mph unless there's not alot of people on the road use your best judgment". Laws have to be clear enough to follow, so we have to draw lines that will always be imperfect.