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    -=> On 09-21-20  09:54,  Aaron Thomas <=-   
    -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Killer <=-   
      
      
    DS> Then you should listen to the doctors who are tell you to wear a mask in   
    DS> public, to keep social distance, to wash hands, etc.  Others are   
    DS> listening to Trump telling them not to bother with masks, distancing and   
    DS> the rest.   
      
    AT> I watch a lot of news, but I never heard Trump tell people not to wear   
    AT> masks or to not socially distance.   
      
   He has denigrated the wearing of masks on many occasions.  Did you not   
   listen?   
      
    AT> He held some rallies. People went to the rallies without masks, and   
    AT> they sat  right next to each other. But we don't have any laws against   
    AT> that. I went to  the beach a month ago, and hardly anyone was wearing a   
    AT> mask there either.     
      
   It should not take laws for people to do the right thing.   
      
    AT> We have the freedom to take a chance with the coronavirus. The   
      
   What you are ignoring with that statement is that it is not just you   
   taking a chance.  Such behavior puts all the people you come into   
   contact with at risk, some of who are in more vulnerable categories.   
      
    AT> president can't actually close the border with Mexico or Canada, so   
    AT> he's not going to achieve  100% protection from infected foreigners.   
      
   It is not the foreigners who are dangerous.  It is your neighbors who   
   allow themselves to be exposed to the virus without adequate   
   protections.   
      
    AT> Americans are spoiled, and they're  not going to stop going to Walmart.   
    AT> Sometimes we forget our masks at home, and when we get to the store, we   
    AT> will get testy about not being able to enter  without the mask.   
      
   Without a mask, you should not be allowed into the store.  Get testy all   
   you like, it should not work to do anything other than create a rucus.   
      
    AT> I sense that Democrats want to pressure the president into taking    
    AT> authoritative actions to combat the virus, but some of this stuff is   
    AT> too much  for Americans. Mask mandate? Try to force a mask onto a WWII   
    AT> veteran and  seehow that goes. Self-quarrantine? Tell that to our   
    AT> illegal immigrant  community.   
      
   Those few WWII veterans who are still around are in the high risk group.   
   They should welcome having the people around them take appropriate   
   precautions.  The community of undocumented people are no different from   
   the rest of us.   
      
    AT> Social distancing? Tell that to the   
    AT> idiots who are hosting huge  parties.   
      
   You called them what they are.   
      
    AT> Pressuring the president into making executive orders that sound like    
    AT> authoritarian orders, just so people can say "See? He really IS a   
    AT> dictator!"  it's just not happening.   
      
   He has not been shy about making executive orders.  But, it would not   
   take him issuing any order to have a positive effect.  It would only   
   take him publically supporting the things that the scientific community   
   has said would be effective.  The words and actions of a President carry   
   great weight.  If he would only support appropriate actions instead of   
   denigrating them, things could get much better.   
      
                                  Dale Shipp   
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