Re: [tlug] GW projects

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 01:55:00AM +0800, Raymond Wan wrote:
> >
> > But you are protecting everybody by contributing to lowering the R value.
> >
> > That's the whole deal about those masks.
> >
> > So please, wear one whenever you leave the house.
> 
> 
> Because, after all, you're both arguing in support of the same thing.
> Whether we're talking about lowering the R value from the point of
> view of epidemiology or how masks works intuitively...

Well, here in the US, the country that elected Trump, people are responding
as he would, threatening store employees who ask that they wear masks.
Yesterday, my wife went out briefly (Manhattan) to find the streets quite
crowded (it was a nice day) and very few with masks.

While some places are trying to enforce masks, others have given up, since
they don't want employees or whoever beaten up for asking that others wear
masks. As I've said, despite working from home and barely going out, I
managed to catch it and go to the ICU. At this point, I wish all these
people protesting staying home and mask wearing would have to spend a night
in the ICU to see what they can do to people. I think that most people are
more selfish than evil.  

But here, at least, asking people to wear masks won't work, people are
going to the beaches in protest, not caring who they may infect afterwards,
and having been unlucky enough to get infected, though apparently lucky
enough to get better, I no longer have tolerance for stupidity. Honestly,
while I know there are few limits on stupidity, even in the US, this takes
me by surprise and one can only hope there's some karmic justice. 

I was born and spent my first 8 years in New Rochelle, (a suburb about 20
miles north of NYC), and remember thinking when it seemed confined to that
area, Well, at least it won't come down here (to NYC).  Boy was I wrong.

Sorry, as I said before, I've become a grouch, but the stupidity of these
people amazes me. Yes, they have a right to get sick if they want but they
don't have a right to make others sick.


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Scott Robbins
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