Too many people don’t care if they kill someone by spreading COVID-19 pre-symptomatically or asymptomatically.
They’ll probably never see the people they kill unless it’s a family member or some other person they have close relationship with. Who cares if some stranger who is elderly dies? Who cares if some unknown diabetic dies? Who cares if someone with heart disease that they’ve only squeezed past in the aisle of a grocery store dies?
Yeah, maybe those high risk people should be isolating, but after seeing the level of intelligence of the people making all sort of lame excuses for not wanting to deal with the inconvenience of wearing a mask (and I rate the level of intelligence on FR higher than the general public’s), you know there are going to be all sorts of people out and about who should be isolating. But who cares? It’s their funeral.
That type of spread is what is making this disease so hard to control.
Asymptomatic spread isn’t very common for viral infections. The government health officials screwed up big-time by assuming asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 was negligible. Masks should have been very strongly advised from the very beginning. Any kind of mask.
(Expecting to hear world class whining from people saying I’m just laying a guilt trip on people. I don’t care. Have at it.)
These people that refuse to wear masks are just puffing their chest and trying to declare they are macho men. Lol.
Here is why I wear a mask and how I decide when and where it is necessary:
https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them
This article explains outbreaks in a call center, a choir practice and a restaurant. Long but very informative so an intelligent person can make the right decision, if not for themselves, for others.