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I wear my mask while in public for 3 reasons: Keeping a lid on COVID helps us all!

Now when you know why masks are a danger, then your education will be complete. WHO is correct. Democrats are not.

The WHO which we stopped funding? That one?

And in Texas its required to wear a mask, and I don't feel like piling up fines to stick it to the man.
 
The WHO which we stopped funding? That one?

And in Texas its required to wear a mask, and I don't feel like piling up fines to stick it to the man.

You can do as you like. Required in my state but nobody is getting fined. Not wearing a mask encourages people to keep their distance and social distancing is far more important than that mask. With that mask, people feel it is safe to push up into your space.
 
So why does a soldier serve?

???

How should I know?

What...do you think I am aware of the self-interest of every single person?

Furthermore, what makes you think one person's self-interest that makes them decide to become a soldier is the same as another person's self-interest that makes THEM become a soldier?
 
???

How should I know?

What...do you think I am aware of the self-interest of every single person?

Furthermore, what makes you think one person's self-interest that makes them decide to become a soldier is the same as another person's self-interest that makes THEM become a soldier?

"How should I know?"

You can't. Which is why you can't say everyone acts in their own self interest always.
 
The WHO which we stopped funding? That one?

And in Texas its required to wear a mask, and I don't feel like piling up fines to stick it to the man.

I hate to say it. I think it was a policy play. I may be mistaken but I heard there is ZERO enforcement power in that order. I guess Abbott wanted a back door.
 
Where does it say only protesters will be charged?

This is cool look. Sorry poli nerd. These are the exempted.


1. any person younger than 10 years of age;
2. any person with a medical condition or disability that prevents wearing a
face covering;
3. any person while the person is consuming food or drink, or is seated at a
restaurant to eat or drink;
4. any person while the person is (a) exercising outdoors or engaging in
physical activity outdoors, and (b) maintaining a safe distance from other
people not in the same household;
5. any person while the person is driving alone or with passengers who are
part of the same household as the driver;
6. any person obtaining a service that requires temporary removal of the face
covering for security surveillance, screening, or a need for specific access
to the face, such as while visiting a bank or while obtaining a personalcare service involving the face, but only to the extent necessary for the
temporary removal;
7. any person while the person is in a swimming pool, lake, or similar body
of water;
8. any person who is voting, assisting a voter, serving as a poli watcher, or
actively administering an election, but wearing a face covering is strongly
encouraged;
9. any person who is actively providing or obtaining access to religious
worship, but wearing a face covering is strongly encouraged;
10. any person while the person is giving a speech for a broadcast or to an
audience; or
11. any person in a county (a) that meets the requisite criteria
the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) regarding
minimal cases of COVID-19, and (b) whose county judge has
affirmatively opted-out of this face-covering requirement by filing with
TDEM the required face-covering attestation form—provided, however,
that wearing a face covering is highly recommended, and every county is
strongly encouraged to follow these face-covering standards.

Kids and those with the fake cards. anyone sitting in any place that serves food and drink. Seated is not defined as being in possession of a table or actually physically sitting. Anyone outside or swimming. People in salons and banks. Voters and officials. Anyone in church. Anyone giving a speech.

All these are exempt.

"Not excepted from this face-covering requirement is any person attending a
protest or demonstration involving more than 10 people and who is not practicing
safe social distancing of six feet from other people not in the same household."

This is the only non exempt.

This matters

"Local law enforcement and other local officials, as appropriate, can and should
enforce this executive order, Executive Order GA-28, and other effective
executive orders, as well as local restrictions that are consistent with this
executive order and other effective executive orders. But no law enforcement or
other official may detain, arrest, or confine in jail any person for a violation of this
executive order or for related non-violent, non-felony offenses that are predicated
on a violation of this executive order; provided, however, that any official with
authority to enforce this executive order may act to enforce trespassing laws and
remove violators at the request of a business establishment or other property
owner."

Basically this is called a law with no teeth.
 
The best mask making material - and meets any wear-a-mask order since there is no standard whatsoever.

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The reason there is no standard is because masks protect no one, but instead spread the virus. Thus, the LESS effective the mask is, the safer it is for everyone.

I use one of those fishing and I haven't gotten the virus yet nor has anyone I know.
 
No.

Self interest is human nature.

Again, no it isn’t. Any Rand, herself an amphetamine addicted malignant narcissist, lied to you. Sociologists and psychologists 100% disagree that self interest is the primary motivator of humans.
 
Again, no it isn’t. Any Rand, herself an amphetamine addicted malignant narcissist, lied to you. Sociologists and psychologists 100% disagree that self interest is the primary motivator of humans.

No they don't. Sociologists and psychologists don't 100% agree on anything. Both are voodoo science anyway.
 
No they don't. Sociologists and psychologists don't 100% agree on anything. Both are voodoo science anyway.

The vast majority of both fields dispute the claim the humans are primarily motivated by self interest.

The voodoo science is Rightwing climate science.
 
The vast majority of both fields dispute the claim the humans are primarily motivated by self interest.

The voodoo science is Rightwing climate science.

LOL!!

You are a veritable font of irrelevance. Ayn Rand...climate science.

Anyway...I'm not interested in your psychobabble.

Moving on...
 
How Masks Help
Masks Are the Key to Stopping the Rise


COVID-19 can be transmitted via respiratory droplets, which may become airborne when an infected person coughs, sneezes or even breathes within a few feet of someone else. The virus can also settle onto surfaces, where it may survive long enough for other people to pick it up and transfer to vulnerable areas like the nose, mouth and the outer surface of the eyes (conjunctiva). So masks, by slowing the rate of droplets leaving the mouth and nose, can help reduce the viral load in the air and therefore reduce the number of virus particles on surfaces, but only if everyone does their part.

Masks Are the Key to Stopping the Rise
 
I wear my mask while in public for 3 reasons:

1. HUMILITY
I don’t know if I have COVID
as it is clear that people can spread
the disease before they have symptoms.

2. KINDNESS
I don’t know if the person I am near has a kid battling cancer, or cares for their elderly mom.
While I might be fine, they might not.

3. COMMUNITY
I want my community to thrive, businesses to stay open, employees to stay healthy.

I hate to break the news to you but the mask wearing thing does not stop this virus. Only way it stops is when herd immunity is reached. Either by 70% of the population getting it and recovering, or when a vaccine is developed. Therefore crying won't help you, and praying won't do you no good.


Keeping a lid on COVID helps us all!

I think it's a little late for that. Blame that on China.
 
I wear my mask while in public for 3 reasons:

1. HUMILITY
I don’t know if I have COVID
as it is clear that people can spread
the disease before they have symptoms.

2. KINDNESS
I don’t know if the person I am near has a kid battling cancer, or cares for their elderly mom.
While I might be fine, they might not.

3. COMMUNITY
I want my community to thrive, businesses to stay open, employees to stay healthy.


Keeping a lid on COVID helps us all!


Smart medicine .....

ALL LIVES MATTER = Make America Green Always
 
my work requires a mask because they aren't idiots. my state will start trying to force the militant maskless to wear masks in the coming weeks. i hope that the mask law is strictly enforced.
 
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