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There's so much to unpack here, so I'm going to have a bit of a crack at it in a twitter thread.
I think the endless debate about masks is a symptom of a whole heap of COVID-induced but also more secular trends all coming together in a giant pandemic-flavoured mess.
I think the endless debate about masks is a symptom of a whole heap of COVID-induced but also more secular trends all coming together in a giant pandemic-flavoured mess.
First up, pandemics are scary. There's lots of things from the Sandman model of risk communication that tilts them towards being high outrage.
- limited personal agency
- unseeable
- perceived as being imposed from outside
- "unnatural" (I dispute this)
- novel
- limited personal agency
- unseeable
- perceived as being imposed from outside
- "unnatural" (I dispute this)
- novel
This means that people are already wound up pretty tightly, and we know that this makes it even more difficult for people to process complex information properly.
