To Mask or Not To Mask?

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

From Nature "Face masks: what the data say"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

From Nature "Face masks: what the data say"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8

Good article.

[Aqua Letifer]

Masks are a product of fear.

[Copper]

Once they use data as plural, I'm done.

[George K]

@Copper said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

Once they use data as plural, I'm done.

Once they used data as plural, I paid attention.

We've talked about this before, but, I sort of appreciate the attention to the precision of Latin.

But...that's just one datum.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

@Copper said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

Once they use data as plural, I'm done.

Once they used data as plural, I paid attention.

We've talked about this before, but, I sort of appreciate the attention to the precision of Latin.

But...that's just one datum.

Fucking* doctors.

*There you go, some bona fide (see what I did there?) Anglo-Saxon for you.

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer said in To Mask or Not To Mask?:

Fucking* doctors.
*There you go, some bona fide (see what I did there?) Anglo-Saxon for you.

Bravo, sir.

[Copper]

We didn't just study Latin.

We spoke it.

It is not only singular, it is Dayt-uh not daaata

[jon-nyc]

John Derbyshire once had a corner post about his unhappiness with these colonial editors at NR changing his ‘data is’ to ‘data are’. His argument, which I found compelling, is the word was now English and not Latin. In English it’s a mass noun like rice or sand. In Latin it’s plural but if you’re using it as a Latin word than you would italicize it. But nobody italicizes it because it’s an English word.

[jon-nyc]

People say ‘my agenda is full’.

Can you imagine how pretentious would sound to say “I can’t do 9 o’clock, I have an agendum”.

Or, “I can’t do next week, my agenda are too many”.

[Doctor Phibes]

I got 40% on my Latin exam.

One should always try to XL, however difficult the subject.

[George K]

And...cough:

[George K]

From a friend in Canada.

[jon-nyc]

[Larry]

"Stop killing babies!"

"My choice, my body!"

"Wear a mask! Wear a mask!"

"My choice, my body!"

"But you could kill an innocent person!"

............

[Axtremus]

Chris Christie, after seven days in the ICU:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/chris-christie-says-he-was-icu-7-days-battling-covid-n1243589

"Every public official, regardless of party or position, should advocate for every American to wear a mask in public, appropriately socially distance and to wash your hands frequently every day. ...”

[jon-nyc]

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