@rudyschwartz@dobbs.town @freemo
The degree to which it's amok may have been overstated, I confess.

The direction is wrong, though.

Having a mask mandate for small groups, but not an N95 mandate for shoppers, is a public health hazard, and indicative of scientism because it's something that looks good if you "believe science" but otherwise is poorly targeted to be effective.

I don't think getting tired of the fuss and trying to get life back to normal while taking largely ineffectual "science"-backed measures as an absence of scientism, nor do I think it has negligible health impacts--the velocity of infection has a sizable impact on the fraction of the population who gets infected, and even if people aren't dying right away, there's elevated all-cause mortality and long Covid to contend with.