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Originally Posted by douglas1999
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I have repeatedly stated that I *do* wear a mask and I don't particularly mind it. My arguments have all been about why we don't treat similarly-risky diseases in this way, or respond societally to them in this way. At all. The response is completely out of proportion to the risk. You guys have yet to formulate an argument as to why this one is worthy of this response, outside of "it's more transmittable". It's also overwhelmingly not dangerous for the overwhelming majority of people. That's the asymmetry that hasn't been addressed.
I already pointed out that the flu killed more kids, in only one flu season, which only lasts 4 months. Covid has killed significantly fewer kids than that in an entire year, yet we don't have mask mandates and lockdowns for a bad flu season. If you're arguing in good faith, you should say "Well, we SHOULD mask up for the flu season". That would at least be consistent. But that's never the response, it's always some handwaving "well this is magically worse because of authoritative sources of medical professionals" word salad garbage.
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Well, personally I would love if mask wearing became a thing for the flu and other diseases.
Although it's not really accurate that the flu always kills more kids. In the past 16 years, there have only been 3 years where the flu killed more children than COVID (in some years, the flu killed less than half of the amount of children who have died from COVID; in others significantly less, i.e. less than 100). And, of course, we're not out of the woods with COVID yet so some of those years will likely be surpassed by COVID since they're only like 10 deaths higher than the current COVID death child death toll. COVID has also killed vastly more people this year than the flu has in any of the past 10 years. Studies also show that even if you survive COVID (and even in some cases where you were completely asymptomatic) that there is decent potential that you are going to have various different health issues during the course of your life as a result (heart damage, lung damage, kidney damage, etc.; oftentimes significant levels of damage).
Again though, I would be totally fine if they said everyone needs to wear masks during flu season too. That would only be a positive thing. However, that's not really relevant to an anti-mask argument when it comes to COVID. People can argue we should mask up for other diseases/seasons too and I'm all for that. But if someone tried to argue that we shouldn't wear a mask for a worse disease because we don't require it for lesser diseases, that doesn't really make logical sense.