Reply To: better learning from Corona

@Syag, you have a point. I am, thankfully, not in a place where I can access a large random sample of non-maskers. You see online responses as well as I do. I heard several offline ones that are hard to summarize: one saying that those who care, can walk around him; another apparently believe in some conspiracy theories; one saying that there are more people dying in car accidents from the virus. My kids were able to convince this last teenager by quoting the statistics.

Maybe an only coherent argument is a claim that their community has herd immunity. It is also not fully thought-through. If you claim that your community achieved herd immunity, you are saying that your community has already killed and maimed the maximal number of people for this pandemic, with no apparent soul searching.

N0mesorah suggests that most of these people are simply followers. Then, we need to look at the leaders. What are they saying? Are they not able to lead, or are they afraid to lose control of the herd?