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Re:California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous by sep_field on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:35AM (#26248235)
it's like a condom for your face. What's not to love? I plan to keep wearing it even after this is all over.

In smarter countries, people wear masks whenever they are sick as a thoughtful courtesy to protect those around them. I'd like to see that attitude worldwide.

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Re:California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous by timr on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:38AM (#26248247)
> it's like a condom for your face. What's not to love?

I know you're being cheeky here, but just to be serious for a moment: there's a HUGE literature on the subject of condom use and public-health messaging from the 80s and the HIV crisis. Condoms are...not exactly popular, of course (the TL;DR is that shaming doesn't work very well. Honesty and education >> scolding and shaming when it comes to behavioral change that is intimate and unpleasant).

It's continually astounding to me how many lessons from that pandemic seem to have been forgotten.

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