What’s not within our power is making sure that well-fitting respirators (full or not) are available to everyone. In order to make this happen, at the very least, we need to make sure that public or private insurance covers qualified fit-testing services (and we need some sort of infrastructure for certifying who offers such services—this appears to be a thing in some other countries).
And I’d also remove the word “covid” from the initial part of the sentence, and have it read “If people actually took risk seriously”, since big part of our failure is not balancing covid risk with other risks, like the risk that flight attendants and store clerks assume (physical violence, mainly) when they’re tasked with enforcing mandates.
What’s not within our power is making sure that well-fitting respirators (full or not) are available to everyone. In order to make this happen, at the very least, we need to make sure that public or private insurance covers qualified fit-testing services (and we need some sort of infrastructure for certifying who offers such services—this appears to be a thing in some other countries).
And I’d also remove the word “covid” from the initial part of the sentence, and have it read “If people actually took risk seriously”, since big part of our failure is not balancing covid risk with other risks, like the risk that flight attendants and store clerks assume (physical violence, mainly) when they’re tasked with enforcing mandates.