That we have to wear masks in the street is not justified. However, I’m not at all surprised that everyone I see except me does it. That’s how it is always in life. I used to explain to everyone in the UK how they could very simply never pay for gas and electricity, no one ever did it except me. That’s useful. There are loopholes that innovative people can take advantage of and they don’t quickly become a huge problem that gets addressed by the relevant powers because most people won’t do it for various motives.

And there is no need for a vaccine, it’s not justified either. Rapid testing available for the public to purchase would have got rid of this cheaply and within a few months but no nation allowed that. It is not clear why and there’s no point speculating on that.

In general, I’m ok with the obedience and predictability of others.



No. I’m not taking it.

I currently am not afraid of coronavirus and am willing to take my chances with it. I’m early 40s. I am healthy (regular intense exercise, nutrient rich clean whole food diet, I supplement and get blood tests, i don’t smoke or drink alcohol, I have no known co morbidity stuffs). I live alone, work from home, only socialise outdoors and in general only go inside a building that isn’t my flat when it is unavoidable to do so. I didn’t get it while it was at its most widespread and the risk is now reducing and approaching a practical 0, for people who live like I am loving it is already a 0. There are many more things that are far more risky that I don’t inoculate myself against in life, this is a new one for the list. Yo, if everyone lived like me we could have eradicated this and a bunch of other diseases over the last 18 months.

Furthermore, I can just let everyone else take it (see above). That’s the whole point of living in societies, they afford advantages to the individuals, we wouldn’t live in them otherwise.

The same goes for traffic laws. Everyone, myself included, breaks traffic laws. For example, I almost never stop at traffic lights while skating, that would in fact be more dangerous. That was a really poor analogy. We break them sometimes, maybe we are in a rush. We tend to break them safely because we break them relying on the fact that the majority of the time people obey them. So the behaviour of the others is predictable enough for one to break the rules safely. I can cross the red light because I can predict with aceptable accuracy what everyone else will do and also I am attentive to anyone who does anything outside of that.

This is fundamental. It is how even language functions. We all tell the truth the vast majority of the time. Even when we lie most of what we say is true. If you lie about what you did yesterday probably the people and places and physics of the situation are all real. It had to be this way or language wouldn’t function. We all implicitly agree to tell the truth most of the time. It’s an essential element of radical interpretation. And, language works. However, it also means that lying works.

If you take it then I’m my view you are an idiot. And I’m very thankful that most people are idiots. They will take it so I don’t have to. For my part I do other idiot stuff in the view of others and they take advantage of that. And that’s a huge factor in why there are societies.


Peace,

kowalski