Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 09, 2021

Blah, blah, blah. Just wear one, idiots.

Probably a lot less than 50%, the stupid ones are a lot louder.

In my careful observation (withOUT actually doing the statistical work) it only takes about 20% to 25% of people being stupid to turn the whole system toward chaos. What’s been kind of fun, lately, is watching the folks who STILL think that being unvaccinated and unmasked is their god-given right trying to deal with the fact that a lot of the things they want to do are now being much stricter about behavior. Though some of them (Tucker Carlson lead) are cheating. It’s also a little bit like funny to know that a lot of the Faux Snooze folks (and their virtual kin) are themselves vaccinated while touting how awful it is to require vaccination.

The greatest irony is that the people complaining about businesses suffering and about having to wear masks, are the reason why businesses are still suffering and we’re still wearing masks.

There are two phrases that are my mantra these days.

Better safe than sorry

Err on the side of caution

Some lyrics from: “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield

There’s something happening here

But what it is ain’t exactly clear …

… There’s battle lines being drawn

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong …

… A thousand people in the street

Singing songs and carrying signs

Mostly say, “Hooray for our side” …

… It’s time we stop – Hey, what’s that sound?

Everybody look, what’s going down

Full Song> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY

Remember, if you consider the average of how stupid most mask-hating, Anti-Vax Qpublicans are nowadays, then you have to remember that 50% of them are STUPIDER!!!

I think George Carlin said it more succinctly: “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”

Only N-95 masks work and should be changed every half hour. All other masks are just for show.

“Stupid is in the eye of the beholder” Only the passing of time may reveal what is right, but I doubt everyone present or future will ever agree.

(Repost)

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Face masks reduce the spread of viruses passed on from respiratory secretions.

While cloth masks are imperfect, widespread use of an imperfect mask has the potential to make a big difference in transmission of the virus.

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The virus that causes COVID-19 is about 0.1 micrometer in diameter. (A micrometer (µm) is one one-thousandth of a millimeter.) The holes in woven cloth are visible to the naked eye and may be five to 200 micrometers in diameter.

It is counter-intuitive that cloth can be useful in this setting — it’s been compared to putting up a chain-link fence to stop mosquitoes.

However, that analogy is wrong in many ways.

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When we breathe, talk, eat, cough, sneeze or sing, we emit particles across a range of sizes, both coarse and fine, and the virus is in those particles. Even though there are gaps between the threads in cloth, the threads are usually wider than the gaps.

Also, at this microscopic level, the thread has thickness, or depth, so the gap is more a tunnel than a window.

Microfilaments from broken or irregular threads project into the gap. The particle is not like a mosquito, which can redirect itself to avoid obstacles.

A particle with momentum will run into a fibre, even though the air stream is diverted around it, like a ball hitting a wall — this is called impaction.

But at the microscopic level, there are two additional processes in play. Particles also fall out of the air — called sedimentation. Some particles are moving randomly and this random motion brings them into contact with fibres — called diffusion.

Finally, cloth can be used in multiple layers, adding a second and third gauntlet for the particle to run before it reaches the other side.

The point is not that some particles may penetrate the cloth, but that some are blocked.

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https://theconversation.com/covid-19-masks-faqs-how-can-cloth-stop-a-tiny-virus-whats-the-best-fabric-do-they-protect-the-wearer-146822

This strip is one of the few places for a constant source of old hat disdain for half the country.

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” The original quote by H. L. Mencken Sept. 91, 1926, Chicago Daily Tribune This post courtesy of http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/

“I’m not stupid”. No, but ego-centric, quite possibly.

If you ever have to bet on the stupidity of Americans, always bet on the “over”…

Is this a reference to Tuesday’s vote in California?

actually 50% of the people typically have decent reasons for why they do what they do. It’s just that the other 50% don’t agree with those reasons. Try to find out those reasons. You still might not agree but then they won’t seem stupid anymore, just maybe misguided. And they will feel the same way about you.

More 20/80… but that number makes it clear which ones are which.

Yeah, he’s stupid. He makes up a “fact” based on nothing and thinks it’s true.

“The Americans will always do the right thing—after they’ve exhausted all of the alternatives.”—W. Churchill

Yet again…

How well do facemasks protect against COVID-19:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7883189/

Effective mask use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnVX3F5zkS0

Hey, you’re the one living in a country where a state can forbid you to protect yourself and your staff and will punish you for doing so.

Jef Mallett’s Blog Posts Frazz · 14 hrs ·

There was a time when I coped with disagreeable people by figuring they were like bad weather. You can’t control either one, and it’s pointless to take anything personally; all you can do is avoid, prepare, or hunker down and endure.

But disagreeable people and bad weather both have become more frequent, more intense, more ubiquitous and more dangerous in recent years, almost in tandem. Which I suppose makes my theory more valid, but I don’t find that comforting. Hunkering down and enduring seems like a delay tactic at best and cowardice at a little worse; but fanning the flames at worst. I don’t know what to do.

So I do what I’ve always done and hope it’s worth something, anything. Dylan Thomas wrote to rage, rage against the dying of the light. I don’t know about people and weather anymore, but maybe if I can contribute a bit of something light, day after day, I can help us keep the rage at bay just a little longer.

A punctuation first, I think: a colon used properly. And between frames, no less.

His numbers are way too high, though. It seems to take a far lower percent than 50% being stupid, but not nearly 100% of us feel compelled to go along.

First off, isn’t “100% of everyone” redundant?

Second, i don’t get it, why is 100% acting stupid?

For once I agree with Mallet. Given that he lives in Michigan, “specifying which” would end up with an attempted visit/kidnapping from Meal Team Six and the Gravy Seals.