About 'restrictions' - the idea of taking measures that infringe slightly on our freedoms to protect everyone's health isn't novel:
e.g. not smoking in public spaces, not using mobile phones on planes, or at gas stations, HSE & environmental standards for work places. 🧵
e.g. not smoking in public spaces, not using mobile phones on planes, or at gas stations, HSE & environmental standards for work places. 🧵
Framing of simple measures like wearing masks in indoor spaces to protect ourselves & others as 'restrictive' rather than protective is problematic. The idea that isolation of a person infected with a highly contagious virus that could be fatal/disabling as 'unnecessary'
We're being gaslit by government in the name of 'freedoms'. These aren't freedoms - these are removal of essential protections that benefit all of us. No one is completely protected from this virus, and vulnerable, elderly people, & frontline workers even less so.
Self-isolation, testing are basic public health measures we need to take to protect each other, and ourselves. This also enables *everyone* to be freeer, because we're not risking being in workplaces, transport, classrooms with people who are spreading infection.
Everyone wearing a mask protects us all, and allows us to enter society with lower risk to everyone. Testing ourselves and isolating if positive also helps everyone. Why on earth wouldn't we do that?
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