[Covid]
@tty I felt unsure when writing about ideology because it's easy to misinterpret. Of course health decisions should be based on science and evidence-based medicine is the most important thing. But there are two parts to this:
1) As a layperson, I am in general wrong when I try to turn complicated medical data into public policy decisions, so I should defer to others.
2) Public policy decisions can never be *solely* informed by science, ideology plays a role for the same reason we say "everything is political". Science can tell us vaccines work, but not whether we should recommend them, mandate them in certain spaces, or forcibly abduct and vaccinate people: it's an ideological decision based on how much we value individual freedom versus group health.The same goes for masks.
These two parts together are why I'm against mask mandates (currently), and why I'm wondering about the non-study based parts of your thoughts. You haven't addressed the freedom of choice / liberal values side of the argument I've made, for example.
As for causing offense, as long as there's no name calling I think I'll be fine hah.
I can appreciate this has gotten pretty long now so no worries if you want to stop chatting.
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