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A lot of the ppl who are now anti-mask were also anti-lockdown too Ive noticed. If you are an anti-lockdown type of person then you should be pro-mask really bc masks make a second lockdown less likely to occur. https://twitter.com/jfwduffield/status/1282820135858974720
The evidence on masks is pretty clear tbh https://twitter.com/davidrliu/status/1254789718161666048?s=20
Japan managed to avoid having a lock-down & all the other authoritarian measures that it has been necessary to institute to combat C-19 & barely anyone, in comparison to us, in Japan died. Why? masks https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/masks-covid-19-infections-would-plummet-new-study-says
Countries that have done well re C-19. They wear masks. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1260581112734191616?s=20
That seems to be a significant common denominator https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3927810
More evidence here if you want it https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1422.full
So it seems like its worth wearing a mask tbh. Thats my opinion. I don't feel like my liberty is being taken from me anymore than I do when I wear a seat-belt when Im driving. Which is to say, I don't feel like my liberty is being taken away from me at all.
NNT: āHad we used masks thenāāin late Januaryāāwe could have saved ourselves the stimulus.ā https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-isnt-a-black-swan-but-a-portent-of-a-more-fragile-global-system
Alternatively, instead of wearing a mask, you could always performatively cut up a membership card, take a photo of it, post it to your social media accounts & throw your dollies out the pram like this guy for likes & retweets https://twitter.com/Francis_Hoar/status/1282791698930847745?s=20
Got ppl in my mentions dunking on libertarians. No one likes dunking on libertarians more than I do but I don't think being pro-mask is necessarily antithetical to libertarian principles. No, I think being anti-mask is a contrarian position, not a libertarian one.
Got my ppl in my mentions talking about the flu, why don't we have to wear masks to prevent flu? Etc.
We have a flu vaccine for starters, we don't have a C-19 vaccine & we might never have one. This necessitates looking at other measures to prevent the spread of transmission.
We have a flu vaccine for starters, we don't have a C-19 vaccine & we might never have one. This necessitates looking at other measures to prevent the spread of transmission.
Got ppl in my mentions saying C-19 is not that deadly. Well, there have been 13.1M cases confirmed world-wide in respect to ppl who have contracted this virus & over half a million of them are now dead, 572k to be exact. Thats deadly enough in my opinion.
Got ppl in my mentions saying my argument re lack of a flu vaccine necessitates mask wearing commits us to wearing masks āforever.ā Well, no, ppl in places like 
, whoāve had outbreaks like this before, they dont wear masks all the time, they wear them when there is an outbreak.
, whoāve had outbreaks like this before, they dont wear masks all the time, they wear them when there is an outbreak.
& the dichotomy posited between protecting public health and protecting the economy was false when it was applied to lock-down measures and its false now when applied to mask-swearing. Look at Sweden if you don't believe me. https://twitter.com/post_liberal/status/1280959209895530497?s=20
Im wearing a mask 37.5 hours a week at work btw. I reckon the rest of you can wear a mask when you nip to the shops. Not a big ask in my opinion.
Ppl dont want to wear masks bc its alien to our culture but it was alien to Asian culture too until relatively recently. Once upon a time, using a handkerchief/tissues when we coughed/sneezed would have been alien to our culture.
I don't know if you have read āThe Better Angels of our Natureā by Pinker? but he talks a lot in that book about the theories of a guy called Norbert Elias. I see mask-wearing as an extension of the same historical/cultural process that he describes in the book.
Slightly more direct! https://twitter.com/PeterHoskinsTV/status/1282999553633861632?s=20
Venn diagram of the group who call their political opponents āsnowflakesā & complain that the younger generations have been ācoddledā but then get all offended just because they have been asked to wear a mask when they nip to the shop for 5 minutes during a deadly pandemic.
NNT again: āIn fact masks (and faceshields) supplemented with constraints of superspreader events can save us trillions of dollars in future lockdowns (and lawsuits) and be potentially sufficient (under adequate compliance) to stem the pandemic.ā https://link.medium.com/XCVkwax767
The anti-mask ppl are not necessarily all libertarians, they are contrarians, which is not the same thing.
