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Like would a Spanish flu level pandemic do it? How many bodies gotta drop before they're scared into masking

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Simple, fines and arrest. When you make things inconvenient and uncomfortable for a hog, they fall in line. Think about what makes people wear a seatbelt. Hogs don't think deeply, they just do what they feel. But if their choice becomes painful, they comply. Things like this that don't have any clear ideology and aren't exactly a huge inconvenience are easy to enforce. But if you have a clear identity and or project that has real material consequences and the state suppresses it, there will be a lot of resistance.