Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 20:38:34 JST

@lispi314 @mossmann @berdandy Between government malice (it's actually illegal in my state for schools not just to require masking, but to even ask kids to mask, even if their parents asked the teacher to make them mask; I suspect there's similar bs regulation against medical providers in some places) and our hospitals and many other medical medical facilities being owned by private equity rightwing nutjobs, there are probably both private and public obstacles to requiring masking like we should. But that doesn't mean we should issue poorly worded "encouragement" messages that actually discourage masking.