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To Mask or Not To Mask?

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  • J jon-nyc
    12 Aug 2020, 17:01

    Wow.

    Also in the news today a Florida sheriff is forbidding masks in his facility. Visitors and staff. I guess it isn’t really about liberty after all.

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    taiwan_girl
    wrote on 12 Aug 2020, 17:27 last edited by
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    @jon-nyc You and I have great minds. I was just going to post on this. LOL

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      jon-nyc
      wrote on 12 Sept 2020, 20:27 last edited by
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      Only non-witches get due process.

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        jon-nyc
        wrote on 8 Oct 2020, 10:23 last edited by
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        Only non-witches get due process.

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          George K
          wrote on 8 Oct 2020, 23:19 last edited by
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          From Nature "Face masks: what the data say"

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

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • G George K
            8 Oct 2020, 23:19

            From Nature "Face masks: what the data say"

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

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            taiwan_girl
            wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 00:41 last edited by
            #220

            @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. 👍

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              Aqua Letifer
              wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 01:18 last edited by
              #221

              Masks are a product of fear.

              Please love yourself.

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                Copper
                wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 01:40 last edited by
                #222

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

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                  9 Oct 2020, 01:40

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

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                  George K
                  wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 01:49 last edited by George K 10 Sept 2020, 01:49
                  #223

                  @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.

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  • G George K
                    9 Oct 2020, 01:49

                    @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.

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                    Aqua Letifer
                    wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 02:05 last edited by
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                    @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.

                    Please love yourself.

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                    • A Aqua Letifer
                      9 Oct 2020, 02:05

                      @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.

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                      George K
                      wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 02:23 last edited by
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                      @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.

                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        Copper
                        wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 16:05 last edited by
                        #226

                        We didn't just study Latin.

                        We spoke it.

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

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                          jon-nyc
                          wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 16:15 last edited by
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                          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.

                          Only non-witches get due process.

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                            jon-nyc
                            wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 16:18 last edited by jon-nyc 10 Sept 2020, 16:19
                            #228

                            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”.

                            Only non-witches get due process.

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                              Doctor Phibes
                              wrote on 9 Oct 2020, 16:21 last edited by
                              #229

                              I got 40% on my Latin exam.

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

                              I was only joking

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                                George K
                                wrote on 10 Oct 2020, 02:10 last edited by
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                                And...cough:

                                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                  George K
                                  wrote on 10 Oct 2020, 23:40 last edited by
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                                  From a friend in Canada.

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                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                    jon-nyc
                                    wrote on 15 Oct 2020, 22:19 last edited by
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                                    Only non-witches get due process.

                                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                      Larry
                                      wrote on 15 Oct 2020, 23:54 last edited by
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                                      "Stop killing babies!"

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                                      "My choice, my body!"

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                                      "Wear a mask! Wear a mask!"

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                                      "My choice, my body!"

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                                      "But you could kill an innocent person!"

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                                        Axtremus
                                        wrote on 15 Oct 2020, 23:59 last edited by
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                                        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. ...”

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                                          jon-nyc
                                          wrote on 29 Oct 2020, 01:15 last edited by
                                          #235

                                          Only non-witches get due process.

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