Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever
by slg on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:13PM
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The lack of nuance is a feature and not a bug. It takes the decision out of the individual's hands since people can have any number of reasons ranging from valid to incomprehensible for why their specific activity doesn't require a mask. We have already tried leaving it up to individuals for the last 4+ months and that clearly hasn't worked. The choices going forward appear to either be to put stronger precautions in place until there is a vaccine or continue to let tens or hundreds of thousands of more people die unnecessarily so we can be slightly more comfortable while outside our homes.
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Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever
by ghaff on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:22PM
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Well, where I live which is about as blue as it gets in the US, people are being good at wearing masks inside based on what I've seen--essentially universal. And they may have masks for walking around in close contact outside but they're not required or generally worn when people are, for example, sitting down and eating outside or walking separated by some distance.
My understanding is that is pretty much the situation even for places where that are relatively enforcing masking in the US.
Re:One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever
by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:52PM
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Strongly agree.
Public health policy and individualised medicine are, or at least can be, vastly different things.
If you tell everyone they must wear a mast at all times, some people still will not.
If you tell everyone a more complex set of rules than masks at all times when out of your usual place of residence then people will fabricate all types of fictions that exempt themselves from the rues.