Seeing people's reaction to this subject, I'm surprised this site wasn't largely anti-mask from the beginning.
• Why should individual actions matter when institutions should be responsible?
• Lots of people die from other causes.
• Covid's never going away anyway, we just have to learn to live with it.
• We can't live in fear!
• Look how badly other people are handling it, why should I bother to do anything?
These are all arguments than have been thrown around since day 1 of covid. If people on this site are starting to commonly agree with them, you could have just used this reasoning to ignore the pandemic all along. I'm sure you would have had more fun that way.
Anytime the CDC was discussed on this site, it was to talk about how it had mishandled the pandemic response at every stage, largely because its actions were driven by capital and political purposes, but when they cause a critical mass of people to visibly call it quits and go back to normal, that's too much to resist apparently.
Seeing people's reaction to this subject, I'm surprised this site wasn't largely anti-mask from the beginning.
• Why should individual actions matter when institutions should be responsible?
• Lots of people die from other causes.
• Covid's never going away anyway, we just have to learn to live with it.
• We can't live in fear!
• Look how badly other people are handling it, why should I bother to do anything?
These are all arguments than have been thrown around since day 1 of covid. If people on this site are starting to commonly agree with them, you could have just used this reasoning to ignore the pandemic all along. I'm sure you would have had more fun that way.
Anytime the CDC was discussed on this site, it was to talk about how it had mishandled the pandemic response at every stage, largely because its actions were driven by capital and political purposes, but when they cause a critical mass of people to visibly call it quits and go back to normal, that's too much to resist apparently.