Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes

Re:Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes by rhino369 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:45AM (#26635189)

I agree they shouldn't lie about the purpose. But they don't have to.

Instead of "you have to wear a mask because VACCINES DONT WORK" (which is the current, deeply stupid, messaging), they could just say "everyone has to wear a mask b/c we don't know who is vaccinated and who isn't."

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Re:Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes by clairity on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:02PM (#26637185)

you seem to be missing the obvious non-totalitarian option:

if you’re vaccinated, you’ve already drastically reduced your chances of spreading the virus to others, and it’s overwhelmingly unlikely that wearing a mask will lower that risk meaningfully further.

that also has the positive knock-on effect of encouraging vaccination as an avenue toward herd immunity, rather than the punitive inverse, which discourages it.

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