You can't assemble without a mask.
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UltraSUPRA
x65943
What about without pants?
UltraSUPRA
As for the pants thing, it's perfectly legal to go out without a shirt on, and everyone still wears shirts. So I don't care.
x65943
But what about pants?
UltraSUPRA
Even if it becomes legal to go out without pants, most people will still wear them, and most businesses will still mandate them. Your terms are acceptable.
Chary
Pants cover unsightly private bits. Masks in a pandemic cover unsightly corona germ
relauby
But that's not really the question. The question is if there was a movement of people who were passionate about going into public naked, and the government decided to enforce the laws that say you need to be clothed when you go outside, would you consider that a violation of rights the same way you consider mask mandates to be a violation of rights?
UltraSUPRA
Well, besides the fact that pants are comfortable...
relauby
I don't find my mask uncomfortable at all honestly. I wear the disposable ones rather than a heavy cloth one but I couldn't tell you the number of times that I forget I'm wearing it. But, still, you're not really saying whether you'd join the no-pants militia. I'm curious to hear your position.
UltraSUPRA
No, I'd just stay home while the nutjobs fought for what they wanted. Similarly, if you're afraid of the anti-maskers like myself, you should just stay home and let it play out.
p1ngpong
How many times do I have to tell you? Your mums leather mask with built in ball gag is not made for comfort or to protect against pandemics!
Chary
You can’t just “stay home”. Some people have to work to survive, some people can’t just get delivery. Old at risk people might need meds from the pharmacy.
relauby
So it sounds like you're indifferent to the government forcing us to wear pants, but passionate about them making us wear masks? What exactly is the difference between the two to you? Philosophically, I can't see why one would be controversial and the other not.
UltraSUPRA
One is instinct, the other isn't.
UltraSUPRA
Also, about the whole "you can't stay home" thing, I wonder how we'd survive another lockdown...
Chary
People would still die because there will always be the worker bees that’s are essential and die for big Corp bux and for the sake of others. Then there’s people who would disregard it, again, and get sick, again which is how we got to this point. A lockdown only slows the spread and saves lived, it won’t prevent spread magically.
UltraSUPRA
So lockdowns don't work.
x65943
Lockdowns work in that their purpose is to slow the spread. They were never created to end the pandemic, but rather to slow hospitalization so that our ICUs were not overrun like they were in Italy. When ICUs are full salvageable patients die due to lack of available respirators.
UltraSUPRA
And then we were supposed to go back to normal.
Chary
Would you rather Americans die because they sat outside a hospital waiting for a ventilator slot to open, or that they didn’t get sick in the first place...?