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by AndrewBissell
1757 days ago
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> These are ineffective because of people's refusal to cooperate. In what sense is this not an unfalsifiable hypothesis? Are cases exploding in Japan because of the 1% of people who don't wear masks in public there? Are Australia and New Zealand trapped in dystopian house arrest because there are just boatloads of degenerates who won't follow the rules? What the hell good is a public health intervention if it requires an impossibly perfect 100% level of compliance to even work? And crumbles to pieces the second you relax the restriction? |
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However, because COVID in the US is a political thing, it's easily 30%+ of americans that aren't "following the rules". In my state of Idaho, there were rallies to get together and burn masks. [1]
Have you ever heard of mask burning rallies in either Japan or Australia?
It's not political in most nations. This is primarily a US problem.
Anecdotally, at the height of COVID compliance in Idaho I never saw > 50% masking participation.
[1] https://www.opb.org/article/2021/03/08/mask-burning-idaho-or...