Cointreau
If you're looking to impress your friends at a cocktail party (and I hear those are a thing again, as long as you've got your vaccination card), tell everyone April has been defined by "reverse dispersion."
"What do you hear about the markets, John," she asked, sipping some chilled Cointreau cliché and feigning refinement.
"Well -- I'm sorry what was your name again? -- right, Carol. Well, Carol, this month was all about reverse dispersion," you'll respond, hopefully over the brim of a simple
“The assumption is that will coincide with something like herd immunity.”
Right.
Not if Tucker and the GOP have their way! To paraphrase the always-timid Bess Levin:
“The only people who wear masks outside are zealots and neurotics,” Carlson told his viewers that, in the midst of a global pandemic, they should go up to people they see wearing masks outdoors and ask them “politely but firmly” to remove the coverings. And if they happen to see kids wearing masks? Dial 911 immediately.
“As for forcing children to wear masks outside, that should be illegal,” Carlson told viewers. “Your response when you see children wearing masks as they play should be no different from your response to seeing someone beat a kid in Walmart. Call the police immediately, contact child protective services. Keep calling until someone arrives. What you’re looking at is abuse, it’s child abuse and you are morally obligated to attempt to prevent it.”
He continued: “If it’s your own children being abused, then act accordingly. Let’s say your kids’ school emailed you and announced that every day after lunch, your sixth-grader was going to get punched in the face by a teacher. How would you respond to that? That’s precisely how you should respond when they tell you that your kids have to wear masks on the soccer field. That is unacceptable, it is dangerous, and we should act like it, because it is. But too few of us have responded like that, we have been shamefully passive in the face of all of this.”
While i don’t agree with the sentiment, i have never worn a mask outside. I don’t think i feel the need to unless i was in a very crowded area. However, i do wear one inside buildings.
“I don’t think i feel the need to”… ?!
Look, wear one, don’t wear one, whatev’. The science is somewhat partial and it’s up to you to decide if 95% safe (or whatever the true percentage actually is) is good enough. I’d bet I’d never manage to convince you to take a ride on a russian mountain attraction that was 95% safe but whatev.
That said, beyond the imprecision of the science and the bizarro attitude to risk, even if an activity is 99% safe, it doesn’t mean much if tens of millions are doing it. How much is 99% of 10,000,000? Are you sure your local health care providers can handle the results of a 99% safe behaviour?
People are afraid is one reason they wear masks outside. To further punish these people as bullying by any definition. I guess if you’re a confirmed fascist, like Tucker who said we will likely have a fascist nomination from the Republicans in a few years, that probably counts as polite society.
We are in a war and some people are still fighting about the color of bullets.