COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

sammymvpknight said

I agree...I lived in Japan for a few years. But it is a cultural difference. The Japanese AGREE to do it because it's the culturally correct thing to do. They are doing it with free will. The same can't be said of other countries in Asia. If the US does get to the point where we are all using masks regularly, it should be because of free will...not because a bureaucrat is telling us that we have to do it. I think that it's the right thing to do...and that's why I do it. But forcing the issue is definitely going to make matters worse.

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I'm not saying we should have the police enforcing it. But there needs to be a concerted PR campaign to get people to wear them and turn it into a cultural thing here. We need to make it a fashion accessory. We need social media influencers and fashion magazines to make them into high fashion. Then the masses will follow. Or start a mask challenge that ends up shaming people who don't wear them.

I'm half joking about that, but we probably should do that along with a massive public health campaign on the importance of face coverings. I mean, even the NFL has figured out that branded masks are going to be big business. They started advertising a whole line of NFL team masks. Although I don't think they will ship for quite awhile.