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You significantly categorize people along emotional states.I think this just shows the two camps of response to this virus
Some people are very frightened, and are still in hiding or taking precautions.
Some people are very over the quarantine, and are now, “ back to normal.”
Which in itself removes us from the scientific evaluation level.
This crisis shows that some people - even among the highest placed in the political realm - have rejected science and promote "common sense" to overcome their ignorance and to reject whatever medical science could state.
I think that there are, on one hand, people who are cautious, because they take the advice of scientists seriously.
They wear masks when proximity could generate infection.
Among them all the doctors and nurses - and many other professionals - who are dealing with ill persons.
And of course people using buses, planes, trains, etc.
And people who, like me, would be neatly killed by the virus, because they have diabetes, hypertension, coronarian and heart problems...
Is that "fear" ?
No, it is being reasonably cautious.
It is not "hiding", as wearing a mask allows to be with other people rather than stay at home.
Among people who won't wear masks, you have diverse people.
You have reasonable people, who know that in open air, when in wide spaces, they can avoid wearing a mask, because it is useless.
That is taking science seriously too.
So, wearing a mask or not can be decided when one is informed by what scientific research has understood.
And you have people who have "decided" against scientific data, that they "feel it is ok" never to wear masks.
Who don't listen to doctors' advice, who think that this question is about "gut feeling", not about the scientific observation of a virus.
In a totally self centered way, they don't give a damn about the fact that they could be infected without symptoms and could be contagious : killing fragile people doesn't cross their mind (or they are in a Darwinian profile, where having the elderly and weak wiped out works for the profit of the Uebermenschen).
Some people "feel" that a given molecule will heal them or prevent the disease, even when no scientific verification can say if it has any useful effect.
"Common sense" is, in the domain of evaluating facts, nonsensical.
Quite like Flat Earth supporters who "believe" that our planet is flat, because their senses tell them that it cannot be spheroidal.
Typically, conspirationism (e.g. all scientists are part of a plot to lie to the world) thrives in such worldviews.
Last words : the masks are not dangerous at all.
Unless we believe that all the doctors, cops, bus drivers are dying or being deeply impacted in their health while they wear masks day after day.
So warning against wearing masks is placing people in harm's way.
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