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LanternWaste

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13. Because there's no cost or risk to wear the mask

Fri May 14, 2021, 02:09 PM

May 2021

"Yet when these same people tell us we can trust the vaccine and remove the mask we recoil. Why?"

Because there's no cost or risk to wear the mask, unlike the reverse situation.

If faith (as classically defined) is simply trust in that which I do not completely understand (and I doubt anyone on DU has absolute knowledge of science), and my faith is not absolute, and my recourse is a benign action which affects no one, carries zero risk, and cost nothing (i.e., wearing a mask), seems that at best, lecturing others to stop wearing a mask becomes its own variation of virtue signaling predicated on a false equivalency.

Also, let's be honest (at least with our own self... if no one else). No one is recoiling. The melodrama you employ does your position no credit.

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Is it really a matter of faith vs physical? [View all] sarisataka May 2021 OP

People have a lot of reasons for continuing to wear masks besides their vax status. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #1

Are there any stats on the effectiveness of the vaccines on the new variants? CrispyQ May 2021 #2

The CDC director said sarisataka May 2021 #9

Masks protect against more than Covid-19. Xoan May 2021 #3

But Covid-19 is what we are talking about nt sarisataka May 2021 #10

I've personally never trusted anything just because "an expert" says so. Crunchy Frog May 2021 #4

Point missed nt sarisataka May 2021 #12

I'm going to keep wearing masks indoors because I wanna? Crunchy Frog May 2021 #16

I like to see the evidence backing something up Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #19

tldr. Crunchy Frog May 2021 #21

But you'll do your own research Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #22

My Worry RobinA May 2021 #5

I'll stop wearing mine Elessar Zappa May 2021 #6

It's a cost/benefit decision. dawg May 2021 #7

At least it's a safe, unselfish thing to cling to wearing masks a bit longer. Silent3 May 2021 #8

Remember in Dante's Peak when a resident asked if he was allowed to evacuate ahead of time? Towlie May 2021 #11

Because there's no cost or risk to wear the mask LanternWaste May 2021 #13

I don't see why it's anyone's business if I wear a mask Sympthsical May 2021 #14

I trust the results NotASurfer May 2021 #15

It's possible that the lack of a flu season was more greatly PoindexterOglethorpe May 2021 #18

Decline in travel contributed to slowing the spread NotASurfer May 2021 #20

A lot of us aren't recoiling at that advice. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2021 #17