07-01-2020, 08:13 AM
(06-30-2020, 07:26 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The AP has a lot of Republicans breaking with Trump's politicizing of masks. With much of the South showing viral increases, they are supporting people depoliticizing masks and wearing them to save lives.
About time? A first step in moving towards the scientific approach of pushing things that increase isolation? With several former happy talk governors closing down again, is the recent surge in the south having it's effect?
This is now in the cognitive dissonance phase, where facts tend to reinforce, not overcome, strongly held faulty views. I was in the grocery store yesterday, and fully 50% of the patrons were maskless. One guy, about my age, was wearing a TRUMP 2020 hat and a No Masks! tee shirt. I avoided him like the plague. There have actually been confrontations between the sane and the insane, and it's getting more not less common.
It's hard to know how this finally settles out. Lifelong Republicans in the sane community are the ones most pressed to respond, and they are now getting the same treatment those of us on the left have gotten for decades. They're stunned.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.