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Black Belt Jones
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She's more right than wrong - preventable illness in the workplace is a big problem, and facemasks for healthy people were not something we really understood here in the West.
Getting colds and agues at work absolutely sucks (like that even needs stating) and is a symptom of sick work cultures - people too afraid / unable to take days off (plus some absolute cretins who think it's OK to come in to work with a heavy cold when they could easily stay home).
Her comments are sensible in that context - it's a bigger question than just government covid regs.
Paris
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I'm sorry but lol at this.
Mrk
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Made me laugh too, said as if he's the only person in the world aware of this fact, or that it in any way excuses the blatant lie that "10% of those who have been fully vaccinated will become seriously ill with coronavirus". Comical.
The price of the freedoms we have.
Again, if people choose, of their own free will, to wear masks, all power to them.
The government, however, has no right whatsoever to mandate it.
And everyone should very much be entitled to wear masks indefinitely if that's what they want. It has to be about personal responsibility and personal choice moving forward. That's what I've wanted for a couple of months now.
The government cannot legislate for masks to be compulsory for an indefinite period. There has to be some sort of cut off point we are working towards over the next months. And then at that point everyone has their own choice to make.
tsubaki
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Of course it does - it does already, for loads of preventative measures brought in for disease prevention specifically and health and safety generally.
In the event of a public health emergency, yes.
In every day life? No, the government has no right to mandate clothing on the populace. We live in a democracy, not a dictatorship.
Better hygiene through hand washing etc is something that everyone has learned from this and I'd hope that we'll see the benefits of that long term. But saying masks should be mandatory indefinitely is a lot different than encouraging people to continue to maintain good levels of hand hygiene.
PaulPowersTash
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But just how good will it be?
Some people will continue to wear masks but I think 99% of people
will ditch them completely as soon as it is possible.
Personally, I'll probably continue to carry one around, and if I see people clearly rattled about their proximity, out of pure manners I'll throw it on as I pass them. Basically a form of courtesy.
tsubaki
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Why? Millions of people have worn masks on buses, trains, tubes and so on without the world coming to an end and we’ve seen how they work at controlling disease.
Yet apparently telling people to do it, even though we know the benefits and know the impact of pandemic disease, is daft?
Every time you drink a pint of lager you're hurting your health, putting pressure on the NHS. Everytime you eat a slice of bread, you're increasing the risk of diabetes, putting pressure on the NHS. And so on.
You don't force people to only drink water, or only eat vegetables. Because we don't live in that sort of society, and thank everything for that.
We live in a society where we have rule by consent. The understanding is that people are free to have personal responsibility to an extent. That 'extent' means while we don't allow people to kill eachother, we do allow them to choose to eat a Mars bar or wear clothing of their own choice.
What you are advocating is justified totalitarianism, where the government uses the argument of 'the greater good' to enforce rules. That slope is extremely slippy.
PaulPowersTash
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So we ban smoking, alcohol, processed foods and lets throw in gambling as well?
We all know the dangers to your health that those things bring so do we tell people they cannot have them?
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