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.
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.