<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><div class="gmail_quote" style=""><div dir="auto" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">There would be no point enforcing anything unless the enforcement led to a better outcome, and outweighed the inconvenience and limitation to personal liberty. Stathis</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Now c'mon, really? Limitation to liberty? You cannot be serious. If I met you and you were not wearing a mask I would say: "I have a weak heart. If I get the virus, I am a dead man. Is not wearing a mask so important to you that you ignore the threat to my life? You could have it and be symptom free, and give it to me, whereupon I die. A little inconvenient for me, would you say?"</font></div><div style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w</font></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 2:35 AM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 01:41, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat<br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…OK, so as I suspected, even if you agreed that mandating the wearing of masks would save lives, and that it could be adequately enforced, you would still not support it.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Stathis Papaioannou<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I wouldn’t. I would agree with wearing one myself however, and would.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Consider the MINO: mask in name only. They are made of spandex. Very comfortable, one scarcely knows one is wearing it. Doesn’t get wet inside. Doesn’t trap anything. Clearly states it is not for medical purposes, it is only for fashion purposes. Well, that is still a mask.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Government cannot force this upon us. We don’t want a government with the power to dictate that kind of thing, particularly since it has demonstrated it doesn’t know how to handle pandemics. Some governments did better than others, but the better ones did less.</p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There would be no point enforcing anything unless the enforcement led to a better outcome, and outweighed the inconvenience and limitation to personal liberty. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" dir="auto"></p></div></div></div></div>
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