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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by nemothekid on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:13AM (#25290338)
Call it whatever you want, but if I see someone who can't be bothered to wear a mask, I'm not going to just "take their word" that they have been maintaining social distancing.

If they aren't doing the bare minimum, that I can see with my own eyes, I have no reason to believe they are also social distancing.

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Re:U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come by rayiner on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:24AM (#25290498)
Then it is literally "virtue signaling" but in this context it's entirely appropriate to require people to virtue signal.

It's also an interesting illustration of why things like virtue signaling are a sociological phenomenon to begin with. They're hard-wired into us, for good reasons.

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