COVID-19 Megathread 5: The Trumps catch COVID-19

[Koharu]

https://twitter.com/JordanStrack/status/1286001015213428737

This represents a reversal of his earlier position, as he had initially walked back from a mask mandate because of civil liberties concerns. But I'm glad to see that the momentum for this is increasing.

Makes me happy for personal reasons for sure. I have a friend who lives in Ohio and works at a library. Patrons have been pretty unreliable for mask wearing. Hopefully this increases people's willingness to protect the safety of others.

[Koharu]

Wisconsin shouldn't be having sports and wouldn't be if the supreme court hadn't destroyed the governor's powers.

Fear of death is human and normal. Pretending you're not afraid because you think your interpretation of the Bible or whatever religious text is the correct one doesn't make you morally superior to anyone else. Heck, even if you aren't afraid and embrace death, that's still not morally superior to anyone else. And, of course, as has been said time and and time again, it's about protecting others, too. And the Bible has a whole lot of very straightforward stuff to say about how to treat others.

[Koharu]

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet, but I wanted to provide a link to Dr. Fauci's comments the other day about the potential benefits of donning eye protection (i.e. goggles, the like) to help limit the spread of coronavirus: https://abcnews.go.com/US/dr-fauci-wear-goggles-eye-shields-prevent-spread/story?id=72059055?id=72059055&amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA=&cid=referral_taboola_feed. At my stepmother's job, they've been requiring employees to wear both masks and face shields for about a week or so now. Now that our medical experts are starting to recommend it, I wonder if this will become a more widespread practice.

Bumping this forward because I want to see if any others on here have an opinion about this. Will wearing face shields or eye goggles become mandatory? It seems like some other businesses are starting to require their employees to wear them as well. What is the opinion on here of this?

I doubt it, just because of the arguments mask compliance is causing.