<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">My state, Texas, a “red” state, has just mandated masks outdoors for everyone who lives in a county with more than 20 active cases. So basically everything except for west texas, if we’re not counting El Paso.<div><br></div><div>With enough pressure, even the most Republican governors will do what it takes to get re-elected. They just have to be pushed. That’s politics as it currently is in the States, like it or not. <br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jul 3, 2020, at 11:18 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] you'll never see this again<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>>><span style="color:#222222">… If he just said there should be a mandate that people wear a virus mask when in public, people would do it…John</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>>…<span style="color:#222222">On the contrary, the POTUS has no authority to mandate wearing masks spike</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:#222222">I think John has an excellent idea. If POTUS said that there should be a mandate (and never mind that he can't issue one) for masks, then some of his followers would start doing it. Even better if he would start too, but you can't have everything. bill w</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Ja. Apparently masks don’t do much if everyone is outdoors. This makes sense if we think thru the mechanics of viral transmission. Good chance it is analogous to odors. If someone at a picnic is devouring durian outdoors, particularly on a breezy day, one scarcely notices. Indoors, oy vey I don’t even want to be in the same house with it. The odor will make you barf. Tailanders claim it smells sweet to them. Mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">If I carry the lesson over, I would think masks probably help for indoor activities, but probably don’t make much difference outdoors. So, I wear one any time I am indoors other than my house, put it on every time I cross a threshold going in.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I am having a hard time imagining any legislature passing a law mandating masks, or even if they did, any judiciary would uphold it. In California we have long debated if the government can mandate that people wear clothing, and if so, are the requirements different for men and women, and if so, how are the terms “men” and “women” to be defined. This last one we don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>