Violet Affleck and mask mandates

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AIBU think that this shouldn’t be encouraged? Violet Affleck advocating for mask mandates. Daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. Speaking about the importance of masks. Says we should still be wearing them to curb the spread of Covid 19.
Shouldn’t a young privileged woman be enjoying her youth? Is there a reason for fit healthy people like her to still walk around in masks?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15127909/violet-affleck-mask-mandates-long-covid-ben-jennifer-garner.html

She's suggesting a young woman should not be so anxious about Covid she is trying to get the mandatory wearing of masks reinstated. This isn't a thread about fashion choices.

Exactly this

She's absolutely entitled to her opinion but not to be telling the rest of us what to do, and IMO is simply making herself look like another silly teenager who thinks they have the answer to everything

Exactly. Ben Affleck can't be as dim as he looks considering the talent displayed by his projects with Matt Damon, so it's not a leap to suggest his children will be intelligent.
They will be paying eye watering fees but that funds less wealthy, intelligent students.
The whole addressing the UN thing suggests she is being overly indulged, however.

Yep - this SUCH a typical mumsnet thread
OP posts something….no one actually bothers to check the basis of what they’ve said…..cue 5 pages of absolute drivel as people argue about whether a Uni student should be allowed to have an opinion. That she doesn’t even have. You couldn’t make it up.
its quite embarrassing to read.

oh and those of us who’ve been working in infectious diseases for most of their life totally applaud her view with regards to air filtration in public spaces. It’s absolutely standard in other countries and makes a significant difference to CAIs and HAIs.

Please don't generalise in that way about Covid. For some people it can still have very serious consequences, far worse than a cold. Nothing to do with being a 'wet lettuce' as you so charmingly put it.

We live in a free country, she can do what she wants and think whatever she wants to think as long as she breaks no laws

not something to get het up about

I agree, @dreamiesformolly - I caught Covid after getting the first dose of the first vaccine, and I ended up in hospital, on oxygen, having dropped my oxygen saturations to under 90%. I was in for several days, luckily not in ICU, but ended up with long covid, which has left me registered disabled, only able to leave the house very rarely, with dh basically having to do almost everything round the house. I can make myself a sandwich, or heat a ping meal, but haven’t cooked a proper meal in years. I used to go to the library, or do the supermarket shop in person, or wander round a shopping centre, art gallery, museum or stately home, but I can’t do that any more.

I think ultimately the UN will follow the science and not mandate something because of what Violet Affleck says. It all seems a bit pointless to be honest, I'm not sure what "authority" she has to speak to them...do they often allow unqualified members of the public an audience? Maybe they do, I don't know.

Hepa air filters, very simple and effective.

It’s pushback against cleaner air. I don’t get it. Let’s reduce hospital-acquired infections. No!
Let’s reduce the number of people becoming disabled from infections. No!
Let’s reduce the costs of infections. No!
Let’s help with allergens. No!
Let’s improve attendance. No!
Let’s improve test scores. No!

She is clearly mentally unwell.

I wouldn't have a clue.
All I know is it's a world respected university.

Is this why there are loads of young people going about wearing masks now?

Let them crack on. We have enough issues to deal with without more snowflake angst.

She's 19 and at university.

Ah but we can't take away their freedoms by putting air filters in public buildings and forcing them to breathe cleaner air. I wonder if these people are aware that their freedoms are also being eroded by the dreadful people who remove pathogens from their water?

Nobody cares what this spoilt, pampered nepo baby has to say.

She should seek help for her health anxiety and stop bothering people.

Perhaps OP would prefer her to spend her youth having one night stands and drunkenly pissing in alleys, rather than being an academic at Yale.

I mean, clearly some people do care. Or we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

And she’s hardly ‘bothering people’. She doesn’t know we exist. We are actively choosing to engage about this. We could just as easily choose not to.

So it would appear!

What help should people seek if they are unable to face facts?

"As Dr. Akiko Iwasaki says, at this point, the whole population is the control group, and after only five years, long COVID has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children in five years and under," she explained."

This is the same age group most impacted with speech and language delays as a direct result of people wearing masks.

Poor Violet needs to work on their skills of persuasion, they can’t even get their own parents to wear masks.

I am using they and their pronouns because I sort of suspect that that is what Violet would prefer. Bless

I keep reading Violet Affleck as Violent Affect or Violent Affliction.

Strange name combo.

Violet also doesn’t wear a face mask all the time.

Why on earth would you think that?
(the pronouns)