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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (164894)	5/21/2020 7:28:59 AM
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I can go out on the walking trail behind my house and walk for two miles to downtown, and never be close enough to one person to pose a threat to them. Yet, I should be ostracized for not wearing some kind of mask? You're making this binary, then picking the opposite pole and ridiculing it. I walk 4 miles and change every day. I walk around campus--on the golf course and on the streets. Even in a vulnerable community with stricter regulation I don't wear a mask. There are a few other walkers out there. When we pass we greet but keep our distance. I don't even wear a mask to get outside from my apartment because it's not far and I almost never encounter anyone in the hall between home and outside and everyone knows to maintain distance. When I go to parts of the building where I would expect to find people, I wear a mask as does everyone else. At such time as I may be allowed off campus and inside a store, I would wear a mask and would expect others to be doing so, as well. Anyone inside maskless is effectively carrying a "jackass" sign. The point being there is no evidence that "Getting Out There" is problematic. There is plenty of evidence of that. A million and a half infected people plus nearing 100K deaths. Even in places were there are no subways or filth. We have pictures of jackass protestors barking right into the faces of cops and stories of congregations holding hands and singing praise at the top of their lungs. Unless you don't acknowledge a wet pavement as evidence that it has rained, you acknowledge sickness as evidence that getting out there is problematic. There are qualitative differences between, e.g., NYC and Houston which are responsible for the virus mess in NYC That doesn't make it safe to be out and about in Houston.