The Pandemic Is a Health Crisis and I'm Concerned About the Long-Term Implications

I find it very difficult to see how that vision can be fulfilled by threatening and coercing people upon being or losing their jobs in the middle of a pandemic if they don't comply with what they're told to do. I worry that instead of trying to use persuasion trying to use an appeal to people's common humanity to restore trust in our common fate where we all are tied together. There's kind of a punitive strain that has emerged whereby we're telling people we don't know how effective cloth masks are but if you don't wear them you're going to be banned from all sorts of involvement in public life. Even though I am vaccinated and protected I still demand that you do to the