Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 28 Aug 2021 08:15)
I think everybody should voluntarily wear masks and we should socially ostricize them if they don't. If we reach a level where everybody can pull their heads out of their asses and acknowledge how little it impacts people we can implement something for flu seasons specifically.
The only thing you posted in this
"I have to disagree vehemently with the notion that mask wearing costs virtually nothing. First, it is a big inconvenience for quite a lot of people, particularly those wearing glasses. Second, not seeing each others face takes away a lot of the facial expression and body language during social interactions. This does have a social cost. Third, it is a huge problem for deaf people and other groups who rely on reading lip movement for their communication. Fourth, universal mask-wearing would carry implicit symbolism of people being muzzled, of erecting barriers between people, of implicitly assuming everyone to be sick or a potential danger, and a general anonymity. All these things would imho have an adverse effect of social life and the public psyche."
that isn't stupid as fuck (wahhh my glasses fog) is deaf people who rely on lip movement. The rest is minor (I have two people on my staff who wear glasses 8 hours a day with masks. Get over it) and social convention can be readily changed. Oh I like seeing faces. Cool story, I like my grandmother being alive. Wahhh "the symbol says being muzzled". That one is cuckservative shit and you should genuinely lower your opinion of yourself for having said it.
Claiming that the human desire to see each other's faces is a (silly, useless) social convention that can readily be changed might be the most stupid thing
you have ever posted on this forum. Unironically invoking the cheap emotional appeal that "if you don't wear a mask, you're killing grandma" is pathetic and you should be ashamed for having said that.
Also, why the fuck should I care about someone else's grandmother being exposed to a 0.01% higher risk of dying from the flu per winter? People are exposed to health risks all the time, a modern society cannot function without setting a certain level of acceptable risk. We get it, you love your masks, but just because you aren't bothered by them doesn't mean that eveyone else feels the same way.
The stance you're exhibiting here is equivalent to someone who lives in walking distance to his office and all his grocery stores suggesting that society should introduce a general speed limit of 15mph on all roads because "that would reduce unnecessary traffic risks and not hurt anybody".
Your little fascist fantasy about turning society into a health dictatorship in which even the most miniscule health risks are collectivized and have to be minimized at any cost is a pipedream and will never find majority support. Get over it. (Or move to Australia, l guess...)