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@BlackAzizAnansi @the_roamer it should be weird. Alas, it is not. Humans normalize risk really annoyingly quickly, and once risk of death from COVID dropped to the category of Influenza (even though it's still more deadly at roughly 6% CFR vs 3.75%), people fit it into their personal risk models as acceptable
And as always, the people who most need others to excercise care get excluded. I had to eject multiple guests from a small gathering for a cancer patient because they didn't want to wear the provided N95 masks nor did they bring their own. It's horrifying. It's also entirely in line with how most humans behave
@calcifer @BlackAzizAnansi
It depends what we mean by "personal risk model".
I don't think that what people do is look at the pros and cons of masking, say, using the available information, and on that basis they then decide whether masking makes sense.
Instead, they decide whether they want to worry about a potentially serious threat to their health, and they decide that they are more comfortable if they ignore it. Denial of a threat rather than acceptance of a given risk level.