More Mask Musings
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nwhikerI may add to this post, but one thing struck me this morning.
One of the things that I've been known to rail about is when we are asked to find/provide/execute on personal or individual solutions to systemic and systematic problems.
Donate to food banks so your neighbours can eat! Sure, but my neighbours could eat without having to go to a food bank if they were paid a living wage and/or unemployment benefits weren't so low etc. This is often pushed by right wingers who think that private/church charity should replace governmental policies.
And here comes mask wearing. Which is, at its core, a personal solution to a systemic problem.
And the same right wingers who prefer to 'go it alone' are protesting. Yes, I see the reason, the desire to certainly never do what government suggests is best, be it wearing a mask, vaccinating, or voting for a living wage.
They're big on "personal responsibility" but clearly in one case where "personal responsibility" would make a difference, by being personally responsible for not for spewing virus into the atmosphere, they opt for, well, opting out of being responsible.
It seems the burden must always being on someone else.
One of the things that I've been known to rail about is when we are asked to find/provide/execute on personal or individual solutions to systemic and systematic problems.
Donate to food banks so your neighbours can eat! Sure, but my neighbours could eat without having to go to a food bank if they were paid a living wage and/or unemployment benefits weren't so low etc. This is often pushed by right wingers who think that private/church charity should replace governmental policies.
And here comes mask wearing. Which is, at its core, a personal solution to a systemic problem.
And the same right wingers who prefer to 'go it alone' are protesting. Yes, I see the reason, the desire to certainly never do what government suggests is best, be it wearing a mask, vaccinating, or voting for a living wage.
They're big on "personal responsibility" but clearly in one case where "personal responsibility" would make a difference, by being personally responsible for not for spewing virus into the atmosphere, they opt for, well, opting out of being responsible.
It seems the burden must always being on someone else.
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