Making it voluntary is acceptance that there are significant downsides to masks that, now we have a vaccine wall, far outweigh any limited upsides they ever had. (View Post)

Polling is useless on issues like this. People want others to isolate if pinged, but themselves, no sireeee (View Post)

Three reasons why it won't work: 1) Opportunity cost - it prevents the spur of the moment drink, visit to a club etc - this is where entertainment makes money 2) Practicalities - it is impossibl… (View Post)

If you'd be willing to extend it to Europe for the interwar years, Zara Steiner's Lights that failed/The triumph of the dark are perhaps the best detailed surveys I have read. (View Post)

I agree. Someone downthread said that no-one had tried to justify why masks should be dropped. So I'll have a go in three hits. I admit not many have justified removal of mask mandates - and I t… (View Post)