I think the Biden Administration's attitude toward these mandates is "Hold me back!" i.e., like a batter who gets hit by a pitch and doesn't want to charge the mound and fight the pitcher, but knows he's going to look bad if he doesn't. So he stands at the plate and yells until the catcher comes out and grabs him. In this case, the pitch…
I think the Biden Administration's attitude toward these mandates is "Hold me back!" i.e., like a batter who gets hit by a pitch and doesn't want to charge the mound and fight the pitcher, but knows he's going to look bad if he doesn't. So he stands at the plate and yells until the catcher comes out and grabs him. In this case, the pitcher is those opposing the mandates, and the catcher is the judge. Biden would love to support the mandate, but darn if that Trump-appointed judge isn't standing in her way!
The administration seems to think this is the best of both worlds -- they look like they're standing up for protections and "Science" while the restrictions people hate go away. But I think it will make them look bad on both counts.
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There was a post from Bob Watcher lamenting people not masking at Safeway because "Shopping
But if someone met their future spouse while shopping at Safeway, maybe it would be. Or even ran into an old friend. A masked activity is an activity where nothing special will happen. Maybe for Dr. Watcher, who's married and lives with his family, that doesn't matter so much. But it might for the rest of us.
If Dr. Watcher wants to wear an N95 everywhere, he can go for it. But the rest of us are entitled to make our own calculations.
I make the same calculation as he does during surges (I'm not worried about the health effects of covid, but it's very inconvenient to get it and have to miss work), but if I had a different life situation where getting it was less annoying, I'd make a different calculation. Or if I lived with an organ transplant patient, I would mask more often. Either way I'm not sure why we can't just make our own decisions, especially given that wearing a KN95 or N95 is pretty effective regardless of what others are doing.
I mean, I got a cold one Friday this winter after my three vaccinations, and I learned only from a sense of civic duty (and a rapid test) that it was the dreaded 'rona. Two years ago, it probably wouldn't have kept me home from work.
Some people can't unbreak their brains from 2020, or at least, they haven't showed it yet.
I think the Biden Administration's attitude toward these mandates is "Hold me back!" i.e., like a batter who gets hit by a pitch and doesn't want to charge the mound and fight the pitcher, but knows he's going to look bad if he doesn't. So he stands at the plate and yells until the catcher comes out and grabs him. In this case, the pitcher is those opposing the mandates, and the catcher is the judge. Biden would love to support the mandate, but darn if that Trump-appointed judge isn't standing in her way!
The administration seems to think this is the best of both worlds -- they look like they're standing up for protections and "Science" while the restrictions people hate go away. But I think it will make them look bad on both counts.
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There was a post from Bob Watcher lamenting people not masking at Safeway because "Shopping
@Safeway
is def not in my "If I get Covid from this, it would've been worth the risk" category" https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1515854877733232642?cxt=HHwWhICp5dv-sokqAAAA (I'll ignore the questionable validity of extrapolating the positivity rate among those who got tested to those in Safeway).
But if someone met their future spouse while shopping at Safeway, maybe it would be. Or even ran into an old friend. A masked activity is an activity where nothing special will happen. Maybe for Dr. Watcher, who's married and lives with his family, that doesn't matter so much. But it might for the rest of us.
If Dr. Watcher wants to wear an N95 everywhere, he can go for it. But the rest of us are entitled to make our own calculations.
I make the same calculation as he does during surges (I'm not worried about the health effects of covid, but it's very inconvenient to get it and have to miss work), but if I had a different life situation where getting it was less annoying, I'd make a different calculation. Or if I lived with an organ transplant patient, I would mask more often. Either way I'm not sure why we can't just make our own decisions, especially given that wearing a KN95 or N95 is pretty effective regardless of what others are doing.
I mean, I got a cold one Friday this winter after my three vaccinations, and I learned only from a sense of civic duty (and a rapid test) that it was the dreaded 'rona. Two years ago, it probably wouldn't have kept me home from work.
Some people can't unbreak their brains from 2020, or at least, they haven't showed it yet.