To be fair, the point that was being made is that mask wearing has been culturally accepted in many Asian countries for years. You're not wrong about the govt response, but it's also cultural.

Or: “I don’t see why it’s not okay to play Russian roulette with other people’s lives.”

I tried the “old woman with fist” thing, works great:

This pandemic is trivial compared to the 1918 one

“The longer we don’t try to contain it we are digging ourselves deeper and deeper.” This is one of the most important, and frustrating, factors. With a relatively brief period of intense sacrifice that everyone participated in, this could have been effectively contained in America by now. But what we have instead —…

“we should live our lives, be careful, and make our own decisions.”  By this point this pretty much means “my uninformed decisions are as good as your informed decisions.”

It’s possible to both acknowledge and care about the fact that a lot of people are unhappy and anxious and, simultaneously, realize that staying away from people is still far and away the smartest and most considerate thing to do right now.

That is literally the opposite of what I just said.

Not sure how that changes his point that is confirmed by your links that lasting immunity is not a sure or confirmed thing. And that every single medical professional on Earth does not recommend you should go and be careless and reckless because you have antibodies.

Thats actually the two 'experts ' plan all along , convince everyone not to go so THEY'LL have the cinema to themselves..

That’s what I keep remembering and reminding people. It’s never going to be the same again. There is no going back to normal anymore. The longer we don't try to contain it we are digging ourselves deeper and deeper. 

Seems like there isn’t a definitive answer on that just yet. Research is all over the place.

Well an intelligent and compassionate government would put laws in place to make sure people are paid and business can stay closed long term until the virus is mitigated.

I think everybody knows this.  The only people who are going to this movie are the ones who think they are invincible, and no amount of telling them they aren’t is gonna help them.  

Movie theaters have always been plague-ridden petri dishes because you’re depending on the cleaning skills of teenagers for the occasional half-hearted wipedown on the seats, railings, armrests and so forth, with the average seat getting cleaned once for every couple dozen people that sit in it, if you’re lucky.

I was watching footage of people in Asia at an event. Most of them were wearing face masks. What’s notable is the event was in 2018, before Coronavirus even existed. Face mask wearing (for fine dust air pollution) had been normalized long before the pandemic. That’s why South Korea saw just 15,000 case and 306 deaths…

Oh I will cry and complain because I am a baby.

I went a couple of weeks ago because I live in Texas and the power was out at my house for a day and a half and it was sweltering and boring as fuck in quarantine. I went to two movies back to back and I was the only person in the theater for either one of them. It was the ideal experience. And when I came home I had…

I’ve been going to the movies since the age of six and the theatrical experience has been one of the most basic, joyful things in my life. I had the great fortune of going to college during the height of the film guild era and, for years, went to the movies two to three, sometimes four, nights a week. I love the…

Silver lining of all this is that our kids haven’t been able to bring home who knows what everyday illness. I’m fairly certain that the last five months have been the longest stretch I’ve gone without some sort of minor malady since we had our first kid 8 years ago.