I disagree with your last example. If drunk, then yes.. it is stupid to drive. But your comparison wrt masks only assumes that the person is infectious. If a person is perfectly healthy, then there is no need to
Okay, I come from Wisconsin, the one state in the US where a drunk-driving offense, for the first one, is no more than a really bad ticket. You have to get to getting caught twice before it's a crime.
...I'm not sure if that's really on topic, but the point I'm wanting to get
at is that people are oftentimes still rather capable of doing a variety of things while somewhat drunk. E.g., rumor had it in the juggling circles I was in that someone did five balls while drunk, and the police officer let them
go.
But is it as safe as driving completely sober? No. There's a level of risk.
But at some point it's probably still less than driving while drowsy.
And, oftentimes it's next to impossible to get home from the bar when you're doing things in rural areas.
And then there's the aspect that you might be legal to drive, but it's
probably still better if you didn't.
And so on.
If there's plenty of nuance available to me on that topic, there's plenty of nuance available to me on the mask topic.
But it was an analogy. It seems apt to me, but I don't bring it up all that much because I understand that a lot of people would respond as you did.
wear a mask. If I am in a room with another person or persons whom I *know* are covid-negative, then there is no need to wear masks.
Being that half of people with COVID19 are asympomatic, or symptoms indistinguishable from daily life, I'm uncertain how you "know"
they are covid-negative.
I think it's unlikely that I've been infected, given a variety of things, but
I don't _know_.
Maybe if I were in New Zealand.
feet! I see people wearing masks while driving, and they are the only person on the car! Many people are NOT understanding the real point of wearing a mask.
Speaking as someone who does that, I tend to do it because I wore the mask
when leaving the house and going to the car, and did not want to touch my
face again once I got to the next place where I should be wearing a mask
again.
Much like most of the safety things I do (e.g., attempting to leave more room in front of me when I drive, even though it oftentimes results in situations where car after car pulls in front of me), I'm doing it because I want the safety buffer for when something goes wrong, or because I'm doing my
best to be prepared.
I don't fault you for how you approach it. I don't really even particularly fault people who do all sorts of higher-risk things than I do, whether it's COVID related or something else.
But I'm aware of the available (if limited) science, and choose to act in a certain way anyway. It's a temperamental difference, not a misunderstanding
of the data.
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