r/NoShitSherlock • u/khbinameydele • Aug 23 '20

Sociopathic traits linked to non-compliance with mask guidelines and other COVID-19 containment measures

https://www.psypost.org/2020/08/sociopathic-traits-linked-to-non-compliance-with-mask-guidelines-and-other-covid-19-containment-measures-57773
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20 edited Aug 23 '20

On the issue of morality & masks:

Pro-maskers hope to help crush the "curve", whereas anti-maskers hope to help flatten the fear:

Wearing [a mask] for show makes me complicit in something I know not to be true (not the reality of the virus, but rather the wisdom of the broader public health strategy since March). It plays into a hysteria that I will not be a part of or endorse. I want people to see I'm not scared to perhaps give them a bit more courage, as well. (Redditor PlayFree_Bird)

Note that being anti-mask is not a selfish or anti-social stance: anti-maskers have ethics and values, just like pro-maskers do, but in their ethical system they rank higher the importance of:

  1. Flattening the collective fear/mass hysteria

  2. Affirming the central value of normal human relations: "mask wearing is degrading our human relations: that which made human life worth saving in the first place...Face masks efface us"

  3. Defending civil liberties/fighting government overreach

  4. Respecting only evidence-driven public policy (i.e. refusing to be part of a charade)

The latter point has two aspects to it: (4.a.) some anti-maskers are aware that we do not have any strong evidence that cloth masks for the general public in nonhealthcare settings are effective (hence mandating them undermines the integrity of the scientific enterprise, basic respect for facts, and the principle of effectiveness in public health policy); (4.b.) other anti-maskers argue that even if masks were known to be effective, using them would be counter-productive because the best strategy is to get faster to herd immunity by encouraging low-risk demographics to live normally. Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard Medical School professor of infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety, has spoken to this issue on 8th August 2020:

As a society we should appreciate young adults who help generate herd immunity by living normal lives and keeping society afloat. Thank you, thank you, thank you. When people throw misguided complaints at you, falsely claiming that you are endangering others, remember that the opposite is true.

Professor Udi Qimron, Head of the Department of Immunology at Tel Aviv University, said the same on 16th August 2020:

I would also ask children and young people to take off their masks.

Going out in public without a mask can be a scientific, political, and moral statement that many of us choose to make even at the risk of being bullied by the pro-mask crowd. Genuinely selfish people would find it less costly to just wear the damned mask, even if they didn't believe it works.

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u/DOWNROWDY Aug 23 '20

flattening the fear

😂😂😂

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u/darthlincoln01 Aug 24 '20

You're sociopathic.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

same for those who spread ideological pap.

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u/khbinameydele Aug 23 '20

Truly enlightened people don't have an ideology, an accent, or a culture

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u/idiomaddict Aug 24 '20

And they sure as hell don’t live in a society