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banads | 5 years ago

Why doesn't the state also mandate exercise, diet, and sleep?

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perrylaj|5 years ago

This is such a silly response. Did you have the same compelling argument when mandatory seatbelt laws went into effect?

banads|5 years ago

What's silly, precisely? Seat belts are cool, so no, you're wrong.

Homemade masks (as opposed to N95) and handkerchiefs are only marginally effective against reducing transmission. Having a strong immune system is a scientifically proven way to reduce your health risk significantly.

What is silly is all the people who are content to do the absolute bare minimum, easiest possible thing to attempt to protect people's health: merely putting a piece of cloth on their face; while at the same time neglecting to put in the work to improve their overall health, and thus their risk to others of spreading the virus.

cjsplat|5 years ago

States have existing laws about controlling diseases.

      https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-quarantine-and-isolation-statutes.aspx
If you want to advocate for additional science based health laws, go ahead.

bsder|5 years ago

Because lack of those generally doesn't harm others.

And, you can be charged with things caused by lack of sleep--reckless driving, for instance.

However, there is a difference between fining someone for lack of compliance and jailing someone for lack of compliance. Jailing someone in the middle of a pandemic is stupid.