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Originally Posted by Newbiesaukee
It is absolutely NOT either /or.
It is like getting a flu shot...it does not guarantee you won’t get the flu but it makes it less likely and if it makes it less likely for you to get the flu, it is less likely you will give it to someone else. Win/Win.
Wearing a mask may, but probably does not, protect YOU from getting Covid. But, the absolute, professional consensus is that wearing a mask does make it less likely to spread it to someone else. As does social distancing. Win/Win.
The decision apparently has been made that it is more important to open the economy than to protect the most vulnerable who are either sick or old. Even though I am old, this could be a defensible position.
But it is only morally defensible IF everybody wears a mask and practices social distancing. This is how you open the economy and best protect the most vulnerable.
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Great, everyone wear a mask and let’s get opened up and moving. Georgia and Florida are well on the way. But forcing people to wear masks, yet still restricting businesses is counterproductive, in my opinion.