You use the phrase “Permanent Midnight” a lot, but it seems highly ambiguous between (1) mandatory masks all the time for everyone, (2) some individuals choosing to wear masks all the time, and (3) social norms that endorse mask-wearing in some but not all situations (when one has a respiratory illness; when in a crowded ill-ventilated place at a time when there’s a lot of respiratory disease around).
Of these, #1 seems obviously very bad; #2 seems obviously perfectly OK; #3 seems like it could be good or bad or both depending on the details.
A concrete example: there’s a link to a Twitter thread starting with a tweet from Denise Dewald. In that thread I see lots of people saying things that amount to “I wear a mask all the time and I think people who don’t are being foolish”. I also see quite a lot of people saying things like “Masks do nothing at all” and “Masks lead to low blood pH which gives you cancer”. Quite a few saying “I never wear a mask and I never get sick”, quite a few saying “I have been wearing a mask all the time since the start of the Plague, and I’m getting way fewer other respiratory infections”, etc., etc., etc. I didn’t see one person calling for any mandates requiring mask-wearing. I did not read all the tweets (life is too short) so I might have missed some, but there’s certainly not much of that in the thread.
Maybe some of those people privately believe that there should be such mandates. But if any of them are saying it out loud, I didn’t spot any of them in maybe 10 minutes of trawling through a very boring Twitter thread, and the craziest mask-related opinions in the thread were anti-mask ones not pro-mask ones. And what you said was: “very explicit support for Permanent Midnight”. So what does “Permanent Midnight” actually mean?
You use the phrase “Permanent Midnight” a lot, but it seems highly ambiguous between (1) mandatory masks all the time for everyone, (2) some individuals choosing to wear masks all the time, and (3) social norms that endorse mask-wearing in some but not all situations (when one has a respiratory illness; when in a crowded ill-ventilated place at a time when there’s a lot of respiratory disease around).
Of these, #1 seems obviously very bad; #2 seems obviously perfectly OK; #3 seems like it could be good or bad or both depending on the details.
A concrete example: there’s a link to a Twitter thread starting with a tweet from Denise Dewald. In that thread I see lots of people saying things that amount to “I wear a mask all the time and I think people who don’t are being foolish”. I also see quite a lot of people saying things like “Masks do nothing at all” and “Masks lead to low blood pH which gives you cancer”. Quite a few saying “I never wear a mask and I never get sick”, quite a few saying “I have been wearing a mask all the time since the start of the Plague, and I’m getting way fewer other respiratory infections”, etc., etc., etc. I didn’t see one person calling for any mandates requiring mask-wearing. I did not read all the tweets (life is too short) so I might have missed some, but there’s certainly not much of that in the thread.
Maybe some of those people privately believe that there should be such mandates. But if any of them are saying it out loud, I didn’t spot any of them in maybe 10 minutes of trawling through a very boring Twitter thread, and the craziest mask-related opinions in the thread were anti-mask ones not pro-mask ones. And what you said was: “very explicit support for Permanent Midnight”. So what does “Permanent Midnight” actually mean?