07-01-2020, 10:20 PM
(07-01-2020, 08:11 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(07-01-2020, 07:47 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Dammit, there need be legal consequences for going without a mask -- tickets and fines. Maybe points as if for moving violations is one drove to where one is ticketed. Stay at home unless you have a mask to wear when you get there must mean that.
That's easier said than done. Of course there is the nonothing contingent who think the virus is a hoax. However, there are debt serfs who don't have enough money for a mask and Drump is making them go back to work. Another problem is the US doesn't do stuff like make many masks here because profits. I ordered masks in January and didn't get a thing until April. Here's the deal. Covid-19 has shown the US as a failed state. Please lower your expectations such that one expects the same results as in say Afghanistan. That should save a bit of anguish and astonishment.
True. I am in no way involved in drafting the laws. Laws have meaning only if there be consequences for non-compliance; otherwise law is nothing more than persuasion.
People used to believe that drunk driving was not the menace that it is... but now the laws are clear. Maybe they go too far... that if you take your car keys into your car while you are drunk and sit in the car you are violating DWI laws. If you so much as turn on the radio or the heater while you are drunk, then you are in violation of DWI laws.
We have had a disaster that begins with a President unwilling to contradict his most fanatical supporters, I got one mask just for giving blood and kept it for about three weeks... and the hospital gave me a cloth mask to replace that mask (which was wearing out and beginning to stink)... that I still have and use.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.