# Judge overturns Oregon Governor's Covid-19 restrictions

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 19, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-overturns-oregon-governors-covid-19-restrictions/854083 "2020-05-19T03:31:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-overturns-oregon-governors-covid-19-restrictions/854083/61 "2020-05-21T21:38:42Z")

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> [@xenophon41](#):
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> Why are you “reasonably confident” you’re not a carrier? Were you tested this morning and already have the results back from a reliable lab? You wouldn’t know if you’re asymptomatically carrying the virus, so your confidence level should not be high. Particularly if you’re doing a lot of walking around in public without a mask.
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> Wearing a mask does NOT increase your chances of contracting the virus; this isn’t a prisoner’s dilemma. Your civic minded solution would be to wear the mask, minimize your time in crowded and enclosed areas and practice social distancing. That’s also your safest anti-virus solution, because wearing a mask, while it results in you wearing your own snotlets on the inside and other people’s snotlets on the outside of the mask also reduces the amount of other peoples snotlets you’re going to inhale per trip, provided you shorten your trips through crowded areas. But wash your hands and launder (or replace) your mask after every use.

This is largely an academic debate as I do wear a mask in public, but from my understanding in your prior post, if someone is a carrier their snot droplets will adhere to my mask and give me a greater chance of infection. If I misunderstood that, then I am just wrong.

So I guess the calculus would be, if I am already a carrier, then I’m infected so it doesn’t benefit numero uno to wear a mask. If I am not infected, then wearing a mask only increases my chances of getting infected because of the aforementioned snot particles on my mask so in either scenario, I don’t benefit from a mask. But others do. However, I (the general I) am a selfish prick who won’t wear a mask. A prisoner’s dilemma.

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