"Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote in
news:it8fsh-r7g.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au:

> On 19/07/2021 05:07, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>> "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote in
>> news:d6kcsh-ui4.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au:
>>
>>> On 18/07/2021 05:13, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>>> [SNIP]
>>>>
>>>> The same claims were made in 1918 and 1919.
>>>>
>>>> Have *you* ever seen a photo of a flapper wearing a mask?
>>>>
>>>> Neither has anybody else.
>>>>
>>> Bit early for flappers, that's the reason.
>>
>> Within a few years of the pandemic fading, it was largely
>> forgotten.
>>
>> Which was the point, for those who were paying attention to the
>> conversation instead of trying to move the goalposts.
>>
>> The same will happen this time.
>>
> Of course it will. Most people refuse to learn from the past,
> some wilfully, some through simple laziness.
>
And some people have a more realistic (and science based)
understanding of how pandemics work.

And some people aren't weak, timid, fragile losers who want to hide
in the basement all their lives anyway.

--
Terry Austin

Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
Lynn:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
(May 2019 total for people arrested for entering the United States
illegally is over 132,000 for just the southwest border.)

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

On 20/07/2021 03:45, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
> "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote in
> news:it8fsh-r7g.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au:
>
>> On 19/07/2021 05:07, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>>> "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote in
>>> news:d6kcsh-ui4.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au:
>>>
>>>> On 18/07/2021 05:13, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>>>> [SNIP]
>>>>>
>>>>> The same claims were made in 1918 and 1919.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have *you* ever seen a photo of a flapper wearing a mask?
>>>>>
>>>>> Neither has anybody else.
>>>>>
>>>> Bit early for flappers, that's the reason.
>>>
>>> Within a few years of the pandemic fading, it was largely
>>> forgotten.
>>>
>>> Which was the point, for those who were paying attention to the
>>> conversation instead of trying to move the goalposts.
>>>
>>> The same will happen this time.
>>>
>> Of course it will. Most people refuse to learn from the past,
>> some wilfully, some through simple laziness.
>>
> And some people have a more realistic (and science based)
> understanding of how pandemics work.
>
Yes, but we know that doesn't include you.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

--
Waiting for a new signature to suggest itself...

On 2021-07-19 10:43 a.m., Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote in
> news:scv2hr$njs$1@dont-email.me:
>
>> On 7/17/2021 6:04 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 17 July 2021 at 08:33:00 UTC+1, Chrysi Cat wrote:
>>>> If the "correction" includes a variant that not only kills
>>>> better but can fool the vaccine-prepped immune system, then it
>>>> will also mean the end of the entirety of human civilisation
>>>> (human BEINGS might survive, but the odds that travel of
>>>> greater than 100 miles in a day would be ever considered
>>>> acceptable again would decrease).
>>>
>>> I don't see the virus doing that... wait, do you mean
>>> that people from 100 miles away will be considered
>>> to be carriers of the plague? Eh, maybe. We will
>>> have communications however... but perhaps an
>>> end to large "nations" with one political system.
>>>
>>> War will be fought mainly by robots, perhaps even
>>> if none of us meaties wanted them to.
>>>
>>>> We'd probably have been significantly better off if being
>>>> unmasked, in public, and not actively eating or drinking had
>>>> become subject to a full-on cultural taboo, but that's not the
>>>> world we live in (and at any rate, considering that hiding
>>>> body parts tends to turn them into erogenous zones, what would
>>>> people have done when seeing each other _in_ restaurants in
>>>> that scenario, anyway?)
>>>
>>> Air kissing at six paces?
>>>
>>>> But that's not where we went, and now a friend of mine thinks
>>>> that even outdoor sports are going to have their venue
>>>> capacities permanently reduced to 60% of design, with future
>>>> venues probably designed _from scratch_ to need more distance
>>>> around at least seat *groupings*.
>>>>
>>>> I think she's a little over-worried myself, but then I'd have
>>>> been fine if masks were a permanent thing, so each of us has
>>>> our little "these aren't good quirks at all" issues..
>>>
>>> I don't imagine there a spectator sports venue in the
>>> world that doesn't need improvement anyway.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we can all attend and watch from our individual
>>> robot flying cars, and be allowed alcohol and other fun
>>> things, but not to get out.
>>>
>>> Do you think you can charge an electric robot flying car
>>> while it's flying?
>>>
>> I seem to recall some guy named Tesla claimed to be able to do
>> that....
>>
> He also says he's going to put a million colonists on Mars by 2050.

Ah! You're confused!

Nikola Tesla was a person who made claims about providing electricity
through the air.

"Tesla" is a COMPANY, so not a he or a she.

>
> You can't take anything a pothead says at face value.
>

"Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote in
news:13shsh-e0j.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au:

> On 20/07/2021 03:45, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>> "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote in
>> news:it8fsh-r7g.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au:
>>
>>> On 19/07/2021 05:07, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>>>> "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote in
>>>> news:d6kcsh-ui4.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au:
>>>>
>>>>> On 18/07/2021 05:13, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>>>>> [SNIP]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The same claims were made in 1918 and 1919.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have *you* ever seen a photo of a flapper wearing a mask?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Neither has anybody else.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Bit early for flappers, that's the reason.
>>>>
>>>> Within a few years of the pandemic fading, it was largely
>>>> forgotten.
>>>>
>>>> Which was the point, for those who were paying attention to
>>>> the conversation instead of trying to move the goalposts.
>>>>
>>>> The same will happen this time.
>>>>
>>> Of course it will. Most people refuse to learn from the past,
>>> some wilfully, some through simple laziness.
>>>
>> And some people have a more realistic (and science based)
>> understanding of how pandemics work.
>>
> Yes, but we know that doesn't include you.

I know you are, but what am I?

--
Terry Austin

Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
Lynn:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
(May 2019 total for people arrested for entering the United States
illegally is over 132,000 for just the southwest border.)

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB