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I have an incurable serious condition. My little family lives with a lot of best practices that don't involve anything like masks or helmets.

I keep wondering if there's any way to export those practices to the world at large but it seems extremely unlikely given the open and aggressive hostility I'm met with for any suggestion whatsoever that there might exist a better idea than masks.

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What is your suggestion for a better idea than masks for the current respiratory pandemic?

We should be focusing more on not touching our faces and keeping a sufficient distance over masks.

People seem to treat masks like a plus 2 magic item in the game of Pandemic. Once they have one on, they think they are exempt from the need to keep their distance. They also tend to touch their face more, not less, because they fiddle with it etc.

I had some utter and complete asshole blow his nose under his mask standing next to me in a store. I think "don't blow your nose in a crowded public space" would be a vastly superior rule to "wear a mask."

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