RE: Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one.

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Perhaps, a more apt analogy than the helmet - mask analogy is the condom/aids - mask/Covid-19 analogy.

You might want to read the linked article "Barrier Methods for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases: Decades of Condom Research can Inform the Promotion of Face Mask Use" (link below)

A few excerpts from the article (as always, please read the article for complete context):

"From the start of the AIDS crisis, it would be years - possibly even a decade - before meaningful behavior change could be measured. Rock Hudson died in 1985, but for most of the rest of the decade, people still had sex without condoms.

If the threat of AIDS (and all the cognitive biases that predispose one to believing they don't - or do - have it) was not enough to get people to simply wear a condom, why do you expect better results from telling people to wear masks and socially distance? Though it's been 40 years, our individual ability to change our behavior and see clearly hasn't necessarily improved - or has it?

My personal observation is that many times more people are wearing masks in the first six months of Covid-19 than were using condoms by the fifth year of the AIDS crisis. This is a major improvement over our reaction in the 1980s and, frankly, something we can be proud of, rather than embarrassed about.

Perfection is - as always - the enemy of good."

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"Let's be clear; face masks are no panacea for ending the COVID-19 pandemic. But in the same way that condoms played a significant role in HIV prevention-especially in the days before the availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV and effective treatments that can effectively interrupt sexual transmission of the virus-consistent and correct face mask use can contribute to interrupting the spread of SARS-CoV-2. But this is unlikely to happen without a national commitment to the development and support of comprehensive, scientifically based prevention strategies that address all relevant avenues for interrupting the spread of SARS-CoV-2."
"All thoughts are prey to some beast" - Bill Callahan

"I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are" - Lou Reed

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453690/ (Open in New Window)

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Topic - Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one. - tinear 06:44:22 10/20/20 (17)

RE: Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one. - Krav Maga 05/9/2103:24:43 05/9/21 (2)

RE: Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one. - jdaniel@jps.net 09:54:40 05/9/21 (1)

"...but it seems to me that mask mandates are sensible." - Krav Maga 21:28:58 05/9/21 (0)

RE: Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one. - Krav Maga 22:33:44 10/21/20 (0)

"involving motorcycles with two riders" - what he hell is that? - Story 07:24:50 10/20/20 (7)

I rode daily for many years. Bultaco Mercurio, Honda 750-4, 750 cc Norton Commando, - tinear 13:45:54 10/20/20 (0)

RE: "involving motorcycles with two riders" - what he hell is that? - Rod M 07:51:25 10/20/20 (5)

While I still update my motorcycle license, I wouldn't ride on the street... - dark_dave56 06:05:53 10/21/20 (0)

On a rural highway, I had a farm boy w/no working lights make a - tinear 13:49:56 10/20/20 (1)

RE: On a rural highway, I had a farm boy w/no working lights make a - immatthewj 21:30:38 10/21/20 (0)

Yup - you just have to have the attitude that those other drivers on the road. . . - Chris from Lafayette 11:56:12 10/20/20 (0)

RE: "involving motorcycles with two riders" - what he hell is that? - Story 07:57:24 10/20/20 (0)

RE: Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one. - b.l.zeebub 07:11:38 10/20/20 (0)

RE: Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one. - dark_dave56 06:54:59 10/20/20 (3)

RE: Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one. - tweaker456 03:32:29 05/9/21 (0)

High horse? From a guy whose posted everything except his net worth? Hah! - tinear 13:52:01 10/20/20 (0)

MOST motorcyclists are better-trained and far more observant than the idiots behind the wheel of a car--your l - G Squared 09:13:56 10/20/20 (0)

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RE: Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one. - Krav Maga 05/9/2103:24:43 05/9/21 (2)

RE: Are you vulnerable to subtle messaging? NO one wants to be told what to do, NO one. - jdaniel@jps.net 09:54:40 05/9/21 (1)

"...but it seems to me that mask mandates are sensible." - Krav Maga 21:28:58 05/9/21 (0)

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