Re: Still don't want to wear masks?
AssaultFreak, I hear you re: politicians that don't to a whole lot to alleviate suffering. Just to draw a line in the sand though: leftist politicians want to improve 5g infrastructure and the internet at large so that people who are on lockdown at home can still talk with mental health professionals. We are pushing things like crisis lines and the further training of more social workers to deal with things like domestic violence and substance abuse. We are trying to get a universal basic income so that absolutely nobody has to worry about starving. We have tried to make it so that landlords can't evict you due to Covid, and we're trying to make it so that homeless people are given support instead of being driven out of temporary encampments. We're trying to do all the things that would make the "little bit of unpleasantness" a bit more tolerable. This is generally what leftists do. We see the social inequity and imbalance, and we want to fix it.
In a political sense, I've read Joe Biden's political platform, and he claims he wants to do many of these things. Now, Joe's a centrist; he won't go anywhere near as far to the left as I'd like, and most Americans counter-intuitively don't want him to anyway. I do find that suspect, by the way; most Americans are terrified of leftist ideology, but when leftists want to fix the systems that are causing so much misery in the first place, they're dunked on and mocked and generally dismissed. This is why we don't have much power. It's not because communism, according to "the big black book of communism" killed a hundred million people. It's not because socialism actually threatens the democratic process or any freedom worth a damn. It's because Americans think socialism, communism, Stalin, Hitler, Nazis, all in the same breath, basically. It's so reflexive that it's very hard to fight against.
Tl.dr: Seriously, the leftists want to make this better for everyone by improving infrastructure to prioritize safety, ease of access, accessibility and availability over profits. If you want to blame any group for not getting shit done, blame the right. Also blame the centrists, who want to try and keep friends on both sides of the aisle and thus end up dancing far more than they should.
The reality is simple. Joe Biden isn't going to fix everything. But the 65% or 40% or 5% he fixes will be greater than the 0% Trump fixes. It will, in point of fact, be greater than the 5% or 30% or 75% Trump ruins. His track record ought to speak for itself.
My stance has always been, and will always be, this:
When you're out hoing your garden, playing in the backyard with your children, or walking down the street to get your mail, by all means don't wear a mask if you don't want to. Maybe wash your hands when you go back inside, but don't freak out. There's no need to be terrified.
But if you want to go pick up a pizza, wear a mask. If you're going into a supermarket to get groceries, wear a mask. If you're taking a nine-mile cab ride for a doctor's appointment, just wear your mask. It keeps other people safe, because you cannot be sure you aren't spreading the virus. A little caution - and that's what this is, caution, not fear - goes a long, long way. It's annoying as hell, but you can still earn a living in most cases, can still endure large freedoms, as long as you are willing to make a couple of small concessions. One of them is wearing a face covering of some kind.
Oh, BTW, I firmly agree that better testing and contact tracing are absolutely essential in managing the spread and knowing who's sick and who's not, which areas are hot and which aren't.
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