[Agustus]

Enforcement is the state forcing its will on you eliminating the individual’s ability to evaluate risk. Eric Garner is dead because of government rule flexing you suggest.

The government should buy ads showing the efficacy of face masks and use the ad council to pretty it up.

If you have politically connected individuals flouting the rules, people will salami tactics their way to not wearing the masks.

*edit: thanks for the word correction suggestion.

[anarazel]

> Enforcement is the state forcing its will on you eliminating the individual’s ability to evaluate risk.

Except that the primary benefit of masks wrt covid is to significantly reduce the likelihood of the wearer to spread covid (by reducing how much spit escapes ones mouth). So the decision to wear/not wear is not directly about the decider's risk, it's about societal risk.

[blisseyGo]

That's a myth which keeps getting repeated. I posted multiple studies which debunk it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23825646

[recursive]

FYI it's "flouting".

[dang]

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