“I’m worried that our risk calculus has shifted in a dramatic way,” Mr. Snead says. “You think about the flu, you think about other diseases that could be dangerous—or just driving your car—and it feels to me that our risk tolerance is basically zero at this point.
“It seems to me,” Mr. Snead says, “that elite ‘opinion makers’ and ‘thought leaders’ ”—he gestures with air quotes—“who only need a laptop and high-speed internet to do their jobs have forgotten the vast number of their fellow citizens whose work actually requires in-person, face-to-face contact. . . . That, I think, reflects a failure to remember one’s neighbor, or anyway the neighbor who isn’t part of”—air quotes again—“the ‘knowledge economy.’ That’s bad enough.
We discuss some of the weirder conventions of late-pandemic face-cloaking: the practice among store managers of requiring their working-class employees to wear masks seemingly for the comfort of their maskless knowledge-class customers, and the way in which some keenly self-conscious people have come to rely on face coverings as a way to hide from the public. The latter reminds Mr. Snead of the “anonymous, unaccountable refuge of social media.
Is this attitude behind the instinctive dislike of masking in parts of American society? Mr. Snead thinks about it and nods: “Anything that dehumanizes another person, anything that prevents one person from connecting with and recognizing another as human, is generally a bad and dangerous thing, in my view.”
WhitlockJason opinion An article everyone should read!
opinion “The visibility of the face is an elementary condition of sociability.” Masks prevent recognition. Refusing to be recognized is an aggression vs human coexistance. ... we benefit from interacting w others. It is there that we grasp the individuality of each person. Good read.
opinion What about a less crowded commute? Fewer cars on the road? A flexibility that diminishes rush hours and spreads out crowds? The people who 'forgot' about the in-person contact are the ones screaming about re-opening, who never tipped and whined about their haircuts and beers.
Antrobus1984 opinion Two employees of Manatee County just died needlessly because of this type of trash. Why don’t YOU go work there for a few weeks? When they re-open, I mean.
WhitlockJason opinion Yup.
opinion Could you please talk about the corruption going on in the stockmarket how can you overlook it? it's absolutely appalling how corrupt America has become
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opinion Mr Snead values economics over Life. His argument is that a careful and safe life (masks and distancing), outweigh supposed mental health. Typical spin to make those who care the 'elite'. This from a paper that only the financial elite can afford, or care about.
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