Before covid, I would be sick with a cold or flu for a total of about two weeks every year. That means I spent 4% of my time sick; one out of every 25 days. Since covid appeared, I’ve been wearing an N95 in crowded indoor areas whenever I reasonably can. (Obviously I can’t if I’m eating something.) My main goal initially was to protect my elderly relatives, but during the last four years I have not gotten sick even once, except from my elderly relatives who didn’t wear masks, got sick, and then infected me when I was caring for them.
Why isn’t everyone wearing N95s? Sure, it’s uncomfortable, but being sick is much more uncomfortable. And then there’s the fact that wearing an N95 protects other people and not just the wearer…
Logic is great, people are not logical.
Logic: wearing a mask is easy, beneficial to society and saves lives.
People: but I’m uncomfortable 😭😭😭
Fuck people.
In my state/country it has reached a point where people hate masks so much that I can’t wear one without being ridiculed, someone getting angry or be harassed about how they are actually bad for my health and it was all a hoax
Logic: not getting sick is better
Logic again, with more context: getting sick in small ways now is better than getting sick in big ways later
Logic only works precisely in mathematics homework, where the problems being solved are imagined and finite. Real world problems don’t use logic per se because logic is about precision and precision requires total knowledge.
The philosophy that models the real world as totally known and therefore logically computable is called “totalitarianism”.
BS
I’m not advocating we live in clean rooms, I’m advocating for masks in highly crowded areas or when people are sick.
Don’t make it sound like I’m asking for something crazy.
We will all still get sick, but not die in the millions when the next covid hits.
But sure, masks are bad because natrual immunity blah blah blah