Everyone who proclaimed 'it's just a mask!' or 'the kids are resilient' were dead wrong on both fronts. I found them highly assaulting from the get-go and knew they did nothing other than terrify and cause social conformity, thus I never caved and showed my face everywhere (it wasn't that hard). The entire point was to keep the hysteria high, wreck any chance for a soothing smile between strangers and train people to blindly follow authority. Now that the masks are off, it's going to be very hard to whoop up hysteria again.
50% or more still masking here voluntarily in the grocery stores. Yesterday, the unmasked checkout clerk and I kept smiling at each other. We'd look at the muzzled Karens and then look back at each other with mirth. Nothing to do with the Karens, but everything to do with being able to smile at each other. Such unbridled happiness!
They are already making noises in the news today that new "surges" are coming. They will try with the masks and they will try with the election shenanigans. It worked once, they will try it again. Count on it.
One of the best ways to tell if someone is being deceptive is to see if they fool around with measurements of obvious things. Scientists and engineers use "dimensional analysis" to know if their calculations could even possibly be right. If you take a number of inputs and expect to get cm as output, and instead you get cm/sec, you don't even have to bother seeing what the number is; you have an error in how you set up your equations.
The liars telling everyone that "a mask is a minor inconvenience" were leaving out the time dimension. Maybe wearing a mask for a minute is a minor inconvenience; an hour is already more serious, and a day is a real imposition. A month of wearing a mask most of the time is close to unbearable, and when the time limit is open-ended, it is clearly a form of torture.
Bottom line: Only I will decide what constitutes a "minor inconvenience" for me.
Everyone who proclaimed 'it's just a mask!' or 'the kids are resilient' were dead wrong on both fronts. I found them highly assaulting from the get-go and knew they did nothing other than terrify and cause social conformity, thus I never caved and showed my face everywhere (it wasn't that hard). The entire point was to keep the hysteria high, wreck any chance for a soothing smile between strangers and train people to blindly follow authority. Now that the masks are off, it's going to be very hard to whoop up hysteria again.
I only had 2 people the whole time tell me to put one on. I didn’t. The 3rd I walked out.
50% or more still masking here voluntarily in the grocery stores. Yesterday, the unmasked checkout clerk and I kept smiling at each other. We'd look at the muzzled Karens and then look back at each other with mirth. Nothing to do with the Karens, but everything to do with being able to smile at each other. Such unbridled happiness!
They are already making noises in the news today that new "surges" are coming. They will try with the masks and they will try with the election shenanigans. It worked once, they will try it again. Count on it.
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One of the best ways to tell if someone is being deceptive is to see if they fool around with measurements of obvious things. Scientists and engineers use "dimensional analysis" to know if their calculations could even possibly be right. If you take a number of inputs and expect to get cm as output, and instead you get cm/sec, you don't even have to bother seeing what the number is; you have an error in how you set up your equations.
The liars telling everyone that "a mask is a minor inconvenience" were leaving out the time dimension. Maybe wearing a mask for a minute is a minor inconvenience; an hour is already more serious, and a day is a real imposition. A month of wearing a mask most of the time is close to unbearable, and when the time limit is open-ended, it is clearly a form of torture.
Bottom line: Only I will decide what constitutes a "minor inconvenience" for me.