Many people are desperately afraid of “forever masking.”
I'm afraid of #COVID19 remaining a top five cause of death indefinitely.
I'm scared COVID will leave billions with lasting damage to their heart, brains, and immune systems.
I'm frightened that children infected three, four or nine times will have lifelong health issues.
I'm worried that a rapidly mutating virus could yet spin off a deadly new variant.
Why is it so hard to do something so simple to possibly save a life? #WearAMask
A child born today, with today's lack of precautions in school and daycare would have to be expected to contract COVID upwards of 40 times by college, right? I don't see how that child survives that.
Seems like a lot of people are just waiting for the magic science pill that makes it all go away....which is really no different than people who are "concerned" about climate change but believe scientists will solve the problem any minute now without them having to do anything. Scientific wishful thinking.
@BE @augieray
What do you want people to do?
71% of carbon emissions is coming from 100 companies. We can't "personal responsibility" our way out of this. I try to reduce my contribution, but my contribution is a sliver of that remaining 29% shared by the rest of the world.
Those 100 companies won't change their ways unless the government forces them to, and they have bought off many of the most powerful countries' governments.
I'm 100% not going to turn another person's COVID thread into a carbon emissions thread, but I'll gladly agree that it does depend on whether you believe that the US(~13% of emissions, but the highest per capita) should lead the way toward a more green future, or whether you believe that China(26% of global emissions, but 4th per capita) should.
Love to discuss either DM or in another thread anytime. It's a good discussion that should be had.
I'm going from the idea that most of the top companies in the list you're talking about are power plants, if I remember correctly, and their output, I think, can be thought of largely in the "personal responsibility" category. But, yeah, personal responsibility isn't going to solve it all, but neither is politics. There's some mix of both required.
