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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by ed25519FUUU on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:14PM (#25084553)
Amazing the risk management decision some people will make in exchange for their personal freedom right now in this country.
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by beamatronic on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:21PM (#25084688)
How did masks ever get conflated with “freedom” anyway. But regardless, don’t people have a sense of self-preservation? When does that kick in?
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by anoncake on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:52PM (#25085942)
Having to wear masks is a restriction of freedom, albeit not a very severe one.
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by justforyou on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:58AM (#25093546)
So is being forbidden from defocating in the streets. Interesting that nobody seems to have a problem with that one.
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by anoncake on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:05PM (#25093605)
No, that is not interesting at all.
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by munificent on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:51PM (#25085149)
> How did masks ever get conflated with “freedom” anyway.

The Republican Party, Trump, and Fox News did that deliberately because Trump early on chose to downplay the virus and response to it. Backtracking on that would have made Trump lose face and harmed the Republican brand in an election year, so instead they chose to politicize it and double-down on not wearing masks.

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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by ed25519FUUU on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:06PM (#25086819)
Weren’t all of our politicians downplaying it initially? I remember “come on down to Chinatown for the Chinese New Year celebration” and that definitely wasn’t Trump, who at that moment was attempting a travel ban on China.
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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by ed25519FUUU on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:56PM (#25085983)
The mask mandate is part of a larger discussion on what can be required of you because of covid 19. Many places right now are testing the waters to decide who you may and may not be with during Thanksgiving as a simple example. These discussions happen together with masks, not separately.
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