• reverendsteveii@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    get people to wear masks en masse again

    The time when people wore masks en masse must be something that I’m too American and lung-scarred to remember

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      11 months ago

      I’m too American and lung-scarred to remember

      Due to a history of smoking and multiple bouts of pneumonia I was already fairly sure that my “dying of old age” (which noone truly does) would consist of drowning on fluids from my own damaged lungs one day. Then the drowning on fluids from your own damaged lungs plague came and people decided they’d rather other people die by drowning on fluids from their own damaged lungs than follow simple enhanced hygiene practices for a bit.

      Mostly I try to just block that out but it’s come back into sharp focus today…

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        11 months ago

        If you put about 15 minutes between an action and it’s consequences there’s a strong subset of our population that will just completely lose the connection between the two. That, to me, was the primary problem. Well, that and the fact that it’s impossible to measure how many times you didn’t get COVID due to masking or vaxxing