The high price of mistrust

Re:The high price of mistrust by adolph on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:25PM (#25905961)

The words could be changed from "sign on to a social compact" to "sign on to this particular social compact" to be more accurate because chances are good that folks who don't wear masks probably ascribe to any number of other social compacts. Living in a diverse, heterogenous society means living within a variety of social compacts formed from differing cultural perspectives and different individual risk evaluations.

If one would not live in a place without high mask compliance, why would one live in a place without 100% mask compliance? If not 100%, what is the number? Why stop at mask compliance?

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Re:The high price of mistrust by roywiggins on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:47PM (#25906239)

The problem is that we have to share the same air at the laundromat and the grocery.

I also wouldn't want to live somewhere with a high rate of drunk driving for similar reasons. Someone else's cultural comfort with getting behind the wheel while sloshed puts me at risk because we unavoidably share the same physical space.

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Re:The high price of mistrust by adolph on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:40PM (#25907734)

What are you and other people doing going to the laundromat, grocery and drink driving? That's nuts in the middle of a pandemic--how are those places even available for walk-in business? Since I don't commonly leave my house I had no idea people were out there "unavoidably" sharing physical space. No wonder the pandemic isn't contained, its full of people with unavoidabilities.

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