Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci on Saturday defended masking amid a rise in COVID cases across the country, saying he hopes people would listen to advice from health off…
I made this argument back when the first mandates were happening. I don’t recall any major uproar about seat belts yet for some reason it’s a big deal when we do the same thing for masks.
The craziest part of it is to me is that seat belts basically only affect the person wearing it, but masks affect both the person wearing it and the people around them. So if anything it makes more sense for masks to be mandated over seat belts.
And not just seat belts, we already mandate clothing in the form of public exposure/indecency laws. And that doesn’t even have any tangible effect on anything. Technically we could all be running around naked but I don’t see any uproar about that either. I can at least somewhat understand wanting freedom and/or autonomy but the people complaining aren’t even consistent about it.
Oh it was the same uproar (it’s uncomfortable, it will harm me, we’ve never had to do this before, I can’t breathe, my religion says I shouldn’t, etc.) but at least that was a bit more in face about saving your life.
There was absolutely an “uproar,” against seatbelts when they were mandated.
It wasn’t able to get the same level of traction because you didn’t have social media echo chambers or the president and other influential “leadership” shitting all over the idea of mandates.
When I brought up seatbelts to anti maskers they usually told me they didn’t think the government should be allowed to tell them to wear a seatbelt either. These people are idiots who will fight against self preservation on principle, bless their hearts.
When I look around these days, I see groups of people who are all about making comparisons even when there are none to reasonably make, creating false equivalencies out of minor differences to prove non-existent points, mercilessly jumping on ANYTHING they judge as lesser – but who in turn are almost never about laissez faire/live and let live (unless it’s a big donor or a corporate entity).
Technically we could all be running around naked but I don’t see any uproar about that either.
Yeah. Amazing, I know, but turns out that people who like to throw stones don’t want to wear glass pants . . . so to speak.
People will abide if they want to. The best way to make people refuse would be to “require masks”.
And yet somehow a mandate worked for seatbelts. The people who politicised basic safety measures between then and now have blood on their hands.
I made this argument back when the first mandates were happening. I don’t recall any major uproar about seat belts yet for some reason it’s a big deal when we do the same thing for masks.
The craziest part of it is to me is that seat belts basically only affect the person wearing it, but masks affect both the person wearing it and the people around them. So if anything it makes more sense for masks to be mandated over seat belts.
And not just seat belts, we already mandate clothing in the form of public exposure/indecency laws. And that doesn’t even have any tangible effect on anything. Technically we could all be running around naked but I don’t see any uproar about that either. I can at least somewhat understand wanting freedom and/or autonomy but the people complaining aren’t even consistent about it.
Oh it was the same uproar (it’s uncomfortable, it will harm me, we’ve never had to do this before, I can’t breathe, my religion says I shouldn’t, etc.) but at least that was a bit more in face about saving your life.
Masks… Ugh.
Interesting choice of words because masks are literally in your face about saving your life, lol.
There was absolutely an “uproar,” against seatbelts when they were mandated.
It wasn’t able to get the same level of traction because you didn’t have social media echo chambers or the president and other influential “leadership” shitting all over the idea of mandates.
When I brought up seatbelts to anti maskers they usually told me they didn’t think the government should be allowed to tell them to wear a seatbelt either. These people are idiots who will fight against self preservation on principle, bless their hearts.
I’m not even joking my boss stopped wearing a seatbelt during the mask drama
BBC 1983
Bonus drinking and driving from the '60s
When I look around these days, I see groups of people who are all about making comparisons even when there are none to reasonably make, creating false equivalencies out of minor differences to prove non-existent points, mercilessly jumping on ANYTHING they judge as lesser – but who in turn are almost never about laissez faire/live and let live (unless it’s a big donor or a corporate entity).
Yeah. Amazing, I know, but turns out that people who like to throw stones don’t want to wear glass pants . . . so to speak.
https://youtu.be/V9psFtbw4Gg?si=gaQ_KhIDB9GG7xBo
I have a feeling they don’t care. Just because cars have seat belts doesn’t mean people use them correctly, or at all.