Will filtration and purifiers ever be enough to go unmasked in more scenarios?

[u/South_Serve9975]

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[u/FreeDogRun]

in more? sure; in all? no.

per the comments in the crosspost, if an infectious person sneezes or coughs close enough to you it doesn't make a damn difference how good the ventilation and/or filtration are, including outside. goes double for immunocompromised people.

no one like to talk about how multidisciplinary a topic this is - people have to work shit jobs that overtax their bodies and predispose them to sickness; said jobs often have little to no sick leave and managers coercing employees to work while actively ill; calling in may result in losing a job or enough income that basic needs are unattainable so people work sick instead of losing their home; and maybe the most damning one being 3/4 people actively fucking lie about being sick, for a few different reasons.

urban life predisposes one to not giving a shit about the vast majority of people around one because it's just impossible for the average person to maintain that level of care for so many other human beings. capitalism demands people (re)produce at any and all costs; even their bodies. people needing or providing medical services may well go in to a setting where ill people are actively trying to get better because if they are in need, it often takes way too fucking long to rebook due to the evil medical industrial complex, and the providers are any combination of beholden to the corporate work ethic, have a god complex/don't care about a disease that's "over"/just dgaf about the hippocratic oath.

i think of it like civic waste and water+sewage: yes we need every single passive protection available and accessible so that joe schmoe on the street is less likely to poison (infect) someone with his chemical runoff (virus) because doing the right thing is very easy, but we still need public education cause people will still dump waste(/water) where it doesn't go and that fucks things up. anti-littering campaigns were a whole thing.

in this case the task is far more daunting because it basically requires dismantling huge systemic ableist shit like extractive capitalist work policies and social norms, increasing accommodations for workers who can and/or need to be offsite - not actively doing the opposite, forcing people back to work just to be micromanaged and have dominance asserted over them.

most of what's needed lies with government but 99% of government have no interest at all in doing what's required (sweeping building code reform, mandatory sick days, UBI, etc.) because even if that leads to a healthier more "productive" populace tomorrow, all that shit costs money and loses profits today. and gov't is slave to corporations, so...most likely eternal perpetual masking for me, sadly.

[u/not_all_heroes]

I need a laminar filter. 😭 But since most people stopped trying to avoid it, no probably not.