<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">We do not yet know the impact that shutdown/masking misadventure will have on the very young.<font color="#888888"><u> spike</u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><font color="#888888"><u><br></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font color="#888888" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:24px">How we could measure that with all the other stuff happening in the world is beyond my imagination. Certainly school time missed or done remotely could have some impact but schoolwork is not something that can only be learned at a certain age. bill w</span></font></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 2:17 PM spike jones 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 class="msg2912252176594253717"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2912252176594253717WordSection1"><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>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">Anecdote: I was going into Kroger and a woman just ahead of me was approaching the door. I stepped in front of her, put my foot on the door opener and said "Let me get that for you."<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">We shared a grin. bill </span>w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Billw, since the covid-19 shutdowns many of us have learned that those kinds of casual pleasant interactions between people is of value, even people who you have never met and will never meet again (such as pleasant exchanges with people while on vacation or in an area of town far from one’s home.) During that shutdown, with the masks and social distancing, many of us came to recognize that we missed that element of life and that it is necessary to wellbeing for most of us. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">We do not yet know the impact that shutdown/masking misadventure will have on the very young.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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