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by perrylaj 2166 days ago
This is such a silly response. Did you have the same compelling argument when mandatory seatbelt laws went into effect?
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What's silly, precisely? Seat belts are cool, so no, you're wrong.

Homemade masks (as opposed to N95) and handkerchiefs are only marginally effective against reducing transmission. Having a strong immune system is a scientifically proven way to reduce your health risk significantly.

What is silly is all the people who are content to do the absolute bare minimum, easiest possible thing to attempt to protect people's health: merely putting a piece of cloth on their face; while at the same time neglecting to put in the work to improve their overall health, and thus their risk to others of spreading the virus.