Posted on 11/14/2020 8:41:55 AM PST by springwater13
Danny Rice has a good sense of how dangerous the coronavirus can be.
What puzzles him are the people who have curtailed so much of their lives to avoid being infected by the virus.
“I’m not going out and looking to catch it,” he said, sitting at a cluttered desk in his auto repair shop in the tiny eastern Nebraska community of Elmwood. “I don’t want to catch it. But if I get it, I get it. That’s just how I feel.”
Plenty of people agree with Rice, and health experts acknowledge those views are powering soaring COVID-19 infection rates, especially in parts of the rural Midwest where the disease is spreading unabated and threatening to overwhelm hospitals.
It’s not that people in Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa and elsewhere don’t realize their states are leading the nation in new cases per capita. It’s that many of them aren’t especially concerned.
Wayne County, home to 6,400 people in southern Iowa, has the state’s second-highest case rate, yet its public health administrator, Shelley Bickel, says mask-wearing is rare. She finds it particularly appalling when she sees older people, who are at high risk, shopping at a grocery store without one.
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The anti-masker arguments are hyperbolic. Masks may do nothing but they are not oppressive nor a symbol of oppression. They are in fact a non-issue. If they work then the economy will recover faster (other than bars and restaurants). If they don't work, then it doesn't matter.
The only scientific argument I have heard against masks are the herd immunity arguments. I think those are valid. Young people should not be masking up, and in fact in many cases they are not.
The mask itself is benign. Being forced to wear it is not.
I would be a whlle lot more sympathetic if it were actually working...but it is not, obviously.
And, yes, the Swedes apparently got ir right...herd immunity is the way to go..its how all pandemics end.
We keep trying to force people to comply with agendas and dictats. That IS oppression, imho.
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