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Ask HN: Is masking indoors like buying insurance for your brain?

2 points by amichail ↗ HN
If you buy home and car insurance, why not also "buy" brain insurance via masking indoors?

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pavel_lishin
Sure, if you think that wearing a seatbelt is like buying insurance for your body.

It's all risk mitigation.

anovikov
I think someone who wears mask indoors outside of major pandemics is already kind of late insuring their brain.

At best it makes an "i am a radical leftist" statement.

duxup
Everything is a risk to hassle / inconvenience tradeoff.

I'm not sure what the math is here but wearing a mask is a fairly high on my personal inconvenience scale. As far as daily non pandemic life, I'm not sure how much benefit there is.

I've got kids in school and so on, I'm going to be exposed to some extent. Is a lower level of potential exposure going to do me any good?