In 1890, a Lakota medicine man claimed a ghost shirt worn by a warrior would protect them from bullets from the US Army. This, among other things led to a massacre at Wounded Knee. The ghost shirt was just as effective against army bullets as a cloth mask is against a virus.
Masks DO help in many ways, and the goal is to combine strategies to end the pandemic.
You don’t agree about masks? Fine…
IF you avoid getting within 6 foot or so of people
IF you wear a mask indoors where asked to
AND where the workers are required to (this is called courtesy for those unfamiliar with the concept)
And finally, I have at least three members of my immediate family who are immunocompromised, one of who would almost certainly not survive a case of COVID. Let me tell you what happens if one of those three get sick from COVID because of the selfish people who won’t wear masks were appropriate:
I will be upset, and I will make sure all those I then meet in public know just how upset I am. I am old, and not as intimidating as I once was, but I’m still pretty sure anyone on the receiving end of a lecture from me will feel a bit nervous.
This is not a threat. I will just use words to explain, in no uncertain terms, why I am upset.
If you “know” that masks and distancing and vaccines and all the other methods do not work (any single one or all three or any combination you want), then you do not understand science and statistics and epidemiology and risk assessment, AND most importantly,
(pick one)Christ’s teachingsHuman decency[insert other belief system’s version of compassion]
If anyone has the intention of discussing the science of the pandemic, please come prepared with peer-reviewed and published papers, or you are just showing your ignorance as to how science works.
If anyone wishes to discuss the morality involved in my post, please come prepared with some general intelligence.
And finally, for those who say I’m just another person who thinks he knows it all…
I DO NOT know it all, and some days, I feel I know very little. I attempt to gain my knowledge using facts and reasoning and evidence. I may be failing.
Please use any of those three things to show me the error of my ways.
The debate over masks goes on & on & on. If you believe they work, wear one. If your a non believer, don’t. I don’t, because I’m fully vaccinated, as is my wife but she wears a mask when out in public. We recently attended a memorial service for my sister-in-law. More than half are non believers in masks and vaccine. Many claim, to have had Covid-19. Several claim they have had it twice. So no need to be vaccinated. Yet none of them have been tested to see if they have actually had it. A few complained that they were forced to get the vaccine or be put on unpaid leave as it’s the only reason they got their shots. We both think we are right and we are all doing what we believe is best for us. Which of us is right and which of is wrong, does one of use have to be right and the other wrong, maybe both of us are right or maybe both of us are wrong, only time will tell. What it boils down to in the end is “each individual should be allowed to do what they believe is right”, without the interference of the Government or the News Media telling us what we should or shouldn’t do.
My original comment was going to be, I don’t think of dogs as pack animals. I don’t believe Cagney thinks of himself as one either.
Templo S.U.D. about 3 years ago
Still doing a pandemic-themed strip for a day, huh?
RonnieAThompson Premium Member about 3 years ago
May Covid avoid you and yours my friends. Have a blessed day.
duggersd Premium Member about 3 years ago
In 1890, a Lakota medicine man claimed a ghost shirt worn by a warrior would protect them from bullets from the US Army. This, among other things led to a massacre at Wounded Knee. The ghost shirt was just as effective against army bullets as a cloth mask is against a virus.
mistercatworks about 3 years ago
Thanks for drawing the masks over the noses, anyway. Pack animals suffer most during pandemics.
Viktor Sirin about 3 years ago
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:
Masks DO help in many ways, and the goal is to combine strategies to end the pandemic.
You don’t agree about masks? Fine…
IF you avoid getting within 6 foot or so of people
IF you wear a mask indoors where asked to
AND where the workers are required to (this is called courtesy for those unfamiliar with the concept)
And finally, I have at least three members of my immediate family who are immunocompromised, one of who would almost certainly not survive a case of COVID. Let me tell you what happens if one of those three get sick from COVID because of the selfish people who won’t wear masks were appropriate:
I will be upset, and I will make sure all those I then meet in public know just how upset I am. I am old, and not as intimidating as I once was, but I’m still pretty sure anyone on the receiving end of a lecture from me will feel a bit nervous.
This is not a threat. I will just use words to explain, in no uncertain terms, why I am upset.
If you “know” that masks and distancing and vaccines and all the other methods do not work (any single one or all three or any combination you want), then you do not understand science and statistics and epidemiology and risk assessment, AND most importantly,
(pick one)Christ’s teachingsHuman decency[insert other belief system’s version of compassion]
If anyone has the intention of discussing the science of the pandemic, please come prepared with peer-reviewed and published papers, or you are just showing your ignorance as to how science works.
If anyone wishes to discuss the morality involved in my post, please come prepared with some general intelligence.
And finally, for those who say I’m just another person who thinks he knows it all…
I DO NOT know it all, and some days, I feel I know very little. I attempt to gain my knowledge using facts and reasoning and evidence. I may be failing.
Please use any of those three things to show me the error of my ways.
And So It Goes about 3 years ago
The debate over masks goes on & on & on. If you believe they work, wear one. If your a non believer, don’t. I don’t, because I’m fully vaccinated, as is my wife but she wears a mask when out in public. We recently attended a memorial service for my sister-in-law. More than half are non believers in masks and vaccine. Many claim, to have had Covid-19. Several claim they have had it twice. So no need to be vaccinated. Yet none of them have been tested to see if they have actually had it. A few complained that they were forced to get the vaccine or be put on unpaid leave as it’s the only reason they got their shots. We both think we are right and we are all doing what we believe is best for us. Which of us is right and which of is wrong, does one of use have to be right and the other wrong, maybe both of us are right or maybe both of us are wrong, only time will tell. What it boils down to in the end is “each individual should be allowed to do what they believe is right”, without the interference of the Government or the News Media telling us what we should or shouldn’t do.
My original comment was going to be, I don’t think of dogs as pack animals. I don’t believe Cagney thinks of himself as one either.