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Written by Pseudo Nym on 2025-01-18 at 00:44

There are many places here in California that are "no smoking" buildings and/or "no smoking within 20 feet of door."

This seems sane and reasonable to me, to avoid concentrated lung damage to those who didn't consent.

By the same health logic, shouldn't a self replicating agent that causes lung damage be treated at least as severely as a non-reproducing toxin?

Masks are being recommended now for first responders in the LA fires.

If it makes sense for individual toxins, why not infections?

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Written by Nini on 2025-01-18 at 12:39

@pseudonym Lizard brain can see smoke, it can smell the toxins so it's going to react to something it can perceive as a threat more readily than something that is imperceptible and therefore doesn't conceptually exist. For whatever reason, the upper parts of the brain are only too willing to go along with this weird threat model of "if I can't sense it, it's not a threat".

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Written by Pseudo Nym on 2025-01-18 at 16:37

@nini

You are spot on correct. We managed to get lead out of gasoline even though it wasn't obvious in the vapors, but yeah.

It would be easier if Covid were green cartoony germs floating through the air.

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