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Posts Made By: David Cotterell

June 27, 2020 10:51 PM Forum: Politics

Wear a mask.

Posted By David Cotterell

Wearing a mask isn't a political act.  It's an IQ test.

June 27, 2020 10:53 PM Forum: Politics

Wear a mask.

Posted By David Cotterell

My Rights.....

June 27, 2020 10:55 PM Forum: Politics

Wear a mask.

Posted By David Cotterell

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June 27, 2020 10:57 PM Forum: Politics

June 27, 2020 10:58 PM Forum: Politics

Wear a mask.

Posted By David Cotterell

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June 27, 2020 11:21 PM Forum: Politics

Wear a mask.

Posted By David Cotterell

If YOU wear a mask it is for MY protection, not yours.  If I wear a mask it is for YOUR protection not mine. It's a civic duty matter not a government intrusion on your freedoms... 

If we both wear masks the virus transmission possibilities go way, way down. Near zero.  On a broad statistical basis the R-factor gets pushed well below the 1.0 number if everyone in a community wears a mask in certain vital* situations. 

*This mask-wearing, in combination with 2-metre distancing, is vital in indoor situations when there are many other people around.  Stores, mass transit vehicles, Planes, the line-up at the DMV etc.  No one is asking you to wear it in your car, or at home or when you are outdoors alone.  

The bold statements by anti-mask people just show selfishness, not courage, not rustic patriotism......"Look, everybody!!!  I'm proud that I can spread the disease to others!!!"

Dave  

June 27, 2020 11:27 PM Forum: Politics

Wear a mask.

Posted By David Cotterell

Why masks work.  From the Lancet.  
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext#%20

I'll go with one of the World's most prestigious medical publications any day over the WHO, an organization steeped in politics.  

The WHO lost a lot of credibility with its early handling of the Pandemic, including right here in this forum.

Dave

June 28, 2020 04:38 AM Forum: Politics

Wear a mask.

Posted By David Cotterell

Carry on, America.  Don't wear a mask.  Because Freedom or because they don't work, or because Covid isn't contagious or isn't deadly to most people or because you ain't no chicken or because you're healthy so you won't die from it just some old person you don't even know or....

Attend Graduations and Weddings and any and all other indoor functions among crowds large and small with no distancing and no masks.

It's one thing if a dozen or so amateur astronomers from an out-of-the-way forum where it is rare for 50 people to ever read a post don't wear a mask unless they 'feel like it'.  It is quite another if tens of millions of Americans pursue this risky behaviour all at once.

Congrats, America! You're Number One!!!!  

Dave

June 30, 2020 10:48 AM Forum: Politics

Thank You Justice Roberts For Blocking Louisiana: Freedom Of Choice Prevails...

Posted By David Cotterell

Abortion can never be banned or eliminated.  

Only safe, legal abortion can be banned. 

The demand for abortion will not go away. 

Those women desperate enough will find a way..... 

Dave 

July 5, 2020 07:38 AM Forum: Politics

Please don't feed the trolls

Posted By David Cotterell

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
Well, you're the only one responding to this thread. Never once in the OP did I imply it was you.
It was actually me, Jim, wasn't it.  Smug me sitting up here with my healthcare and my poutine and my entire country having fewer new daily cases of Covid than Dallas TX. 

Dave