Donald Trump is our elected leader. He leads by example. He holds much more sway in certain parts of the country than in others.
Here is him leading by example:
Florida Sun Sentinal, May 28 2020 No masks required in government buildings Palm Beach County drops social distancing restrictions for residents visiting libraries, government center
When you go to check out a book or get a building permit, you won’t be required to wear a mask, have your temperature taken or follow social distancing rules.
“A mask doesn’t look good”
Well, perhaps the Palm Beach County public is proving it doesn’t really need libraries anyway.
The public is free to come and go without restrictions, although employees and contractors must wear masks and have their temperature monitored.
“As far as the public goes, that’s not something — we really can’t — consent is involved and everything, and that’s not something that our current program was prepared to handle,” said Scott Marting, the county’s director of risk management.
“I think there’s underlying issues when you start to test members of the public.”
The “underlying issue” is very simple. If you are intelligent, you always have covered your mouth when you coughed or sneezed.
You do that to protect other people from your germs.
And because you have no way of knowing whether or not you are carrying the COVID-19 virus, you wear a mask, to protect other people from your germs.
That is common sense and common courtesy.
In a mask factory. (“Live and let die” was playing.)
You also wear a mask to protect yourself, but even if you don’t give a damn about your own life, at least you care about the lives of others.
In short, unless you are a boorish ignoramus, you always have been covering your mouth when you coughed or sneezed.
Now especially during the pandemic, where more than 100,000 Americans already have died from the virus, you wear a mask (unless you are the abovementioned boorish ignoramus).
That is the very simple, “underlying issue.”
The issue reflects a national debate about how to govern people’s behavior at a time when many people resist.
In Palm Beach County, it also comes as public officials are criticized for reopening businesses without meeting all of the federal government’s guidelines for reopening.
From malls to libraries to government buildings, some people insist they have a right to decide for themselveswhat precautions to take.
Allowing that attitude may not be safe, some medical experts say.
These Palm Beachers may think they have a God-given, Constitutional right to decide for themselves.
But when you’re an inconsiderate damn fool, who doesn’t care about endangering the lives of the people around you, sometimes the government has to step in — unless the Palm Beach government also consists of inconsiderate damn fools.
“They have a huge obligation to the employees and the patrons of their buildings,
If my leader doesn’t wear a mask, I don’t wear a mask — even in a hospital.
and they should require that people maintain physical distance and face coverings,” said Dr. Terry Adirim, the senior associate dean for clinical affairs at Florida Atlantic University’s college of medicine and an expert on public health.
If you don’t wish to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle, fine.
You’ll just be one more organ donor for the people who desperately need kidneys, hearts, livers, etc.
But when you endanger other people, because you are an idiot, the government should protect the other people.
Currently all of the tax collectors’ offices require masks and social distancing, according to Palm Beach County Tax Collector, and starting June 1, all transactions at their offices will be by appointment only.
The Palm Beach County Clerk and Comptroller’s Office also requires masks for customers.
Under pressure from the public, Palm Beach County allowed businesses to reopen May 11 — before the rest of South Florida — even though coronavirus infections and the percentage of people testing positive had not declined.
Beaches started to reopen May 18, more than a week before Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Broward County, unlike Palm Beach County, asks both the public and employees to wear masks inside government buildings.
But Broward does not screen employees by taking their temperatures.
Yes, yes, so 100,000 people have died, Big deal. I’m so macho I don’t need one. Oh, you wear a mask to protect other people? Why should I start caring about other people? I never have before.
If there is one thing we Americans demand, it’s that our leaders lead us by example.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
The periodic cicada is an insect, called “periodic” because it appears once every so-many years. For instance, one type of periodic cicada, the 17-year cicada, lives in North America and spends almost its entire life underground, sipping juices from plant roots and molting several times as it grows.
At the end of each 17 year, underground period, millions of these insects simultaneously emerge from the ground for one purpose: Sexual reproduction.
During that short period they mate, often multiple times, and the females lay their eggs in tree stems, where the eggs mature to nymphs which crawl down into the ground and repeat the 17-year cycle.
A Parable
Let us say, for the purpose of our parable, that a new species of periodic cicada — the “One-Year Venomous Cicada X” — lives in just one place on earth: Your little village.
As per its name, the One-Year Venomous Cicada X has a venomous bite that can prove fatal, and the insect emerges for one week, once every year. For everyone’s protection, you need to get rid of the One-Year Venomous Cicada X.
How would you do it?
Each villager could find a special costly poison, being developed for the purpose, and lay it on the ground to destroy the nymphs before they emerge.
Or, you all could hire several hundred people to wait in your yards until the One-Year Venomous Cicada X emerges, and these people could run around with butterfly nets trying to catch all of the millions of cicadas after they emerge, but before they mate.
These methods would be expensive, possibly dangerous, extremely time consuming, and in the end, they might not work.
Meanwhile, the One-Year Venomous Cicada X keeps emerging, for one week, year after year, killing some villagers, sickening others, and threatening to spread to other locations.
In addition to developing two expensive, dangerous, time-consuming and problematic methods, you and your fellow villagers decide to consider two other approaches.
You all could stay indoors, distancing yourselves from the cicadas, during the week every year that the One-Year Venomous Cicada X emerges.
But during that time your businesses would suffer from your absences and some would go bankrupt.
Or, you and your neighbors each could lay a sheet of permeable cloth on your respective back yards, just before emergence time.
Then, when the One-Year Venomous Cicada Xs emerge, they are caught under the cloth, and being unable to procreate, they die.
Although the cloth isn’t perfect — a few cicadas do manage to procreate — it does allow you to live your lives without closing your businesses or waiting for the poison and the butterfly nets to be developed and work, if ever.
And, the cloths might actually do the job without the need for the poison or butterfly nets ever to work.
“Nobody can tell me what to do.”
So your village votes to mandate that every year, just prior to emergence, everyone must lay a cloth on their yards, for one week.
Unfortunately, the village manager himself refuses to lay a cloth on his yard because he says it “looks bad.”
And his selfish followers, taking their cue from their clueless leader, and claiming “Constitutional freedom” also refuse to lay cloths.
So although the vast majority of the villagers do lay cloths, which kill a great number of the One-Year Venomous Cicada X, those few who don’t ruin it for the rest.
And while waiting for an approved poison and butterfly nets to work, many people continue to lose their jobs and businesses, and die from the One-Year Venomous Cicada X bites.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
The primary method for transmitting the virus is not via touching objects or eating compromised food or wearing virus-tainted clothes.
The primary way you can receive or give the virus is by inhaling infected droplets.
Do this experiment: Breathe onto a mirror.
You’ll see the fog that accumulates on the mirror. Those are the droplets.
They come in all sizes. The fog consists of relatively small droplets.
If you are infected with COVID-19, those droplets on your mirror contain the virus.
People close enough to you to inhale those droplets will receive the virus from you.
Whether they actually develop the disease and show symptoms depends on many factors including their body’s defenses and the viral load.
Viral load is important, because the more viruses a person receives, the greater the likelihood — the odds — the viruses will be able to multiply fast enough to overwhelm a body’s immune system.
One virus probably won’t do it, but billions might.
Now put on a mask, and breathe onto the mirror again. Chances are, you won’t see a fog accumulate on the mirror.
That means you either couldn’t have transmitted any COVID-19 viruses at all, or if the mask has some leakage, you at least will have transmitted a far smaller viral load than if you were not wearing a mask.
By wearing a mask you reduce the odds of transmitting the disease to someone else.
But it gets better.
If the people near you also are wearing masks, their masks provide them with further protection from whatever few droplets escaped your mask. (Similarly, you receive additional protection from their viruses.)
Now the odds of your transmitting or receiving the virus have become extremely small. The droplets must bypass two masks.
But it gets even better, yet. Though you do project droplets every time you exhale, the droplets come in all sizes. The ones you see on your mirror are comparatively small.
Coughing, sneezing, and talking spread bigger droplets with more viruses.
You project bigger droplets when you talk, yell, sing, cough, or sneeze.
And not only can those bigger droplets often project farther, but they contain more viruses.
They are capable of delivering a bigger viral load wallop.
The good news is that your bigger droplets are less likely to escape your mask, and they are less likely to get through or around other people’s masks.
Thus, when two people wear masks, even homemade cloth masks, the odds of communicating the virus go way down, and when trying to contain a pandemic, odds are important.
You’ve heard of “herd immunity.” It means that when enough people are immune to a communicable disease, and cannot communicate the disease, the odds that an infected person will communicate the disease to a vulnerable person go down.
Eventually, the viruses can’t find enough new vulnerable people before each virus itself dies, and the disease effectively ends.
A kind of “herd immunity” also occurs when a sufficient percentage of people wear masks. This too prevents the virus from finding enough vulnerable people.
Setting a foolish and deadly example.
In Summary
Wearing masks imparts a type of herd immunity. The more people who wear them, the faster will herd immunity lead to the end of the disease.
Similarly, each person who does not wear a mask chips away at the herd immunity, and extends the life of the disease.
Even if you feel no symptoms, you may carry the virus. At any given moment, you cannot know whether you carry the virus.
If you don’t wear a mask, you’ll unknowingly project viruses onto everyone else — or receive them from other people — worsening the pandemic.
By not wearing a mask, you set a foolish and deadly example for others to go without masks, and that ultimately will lead to more sickness and more death.
For your own life, and for the lives of others, wear a mask, whether or not you think you have the virus.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
Each villager could find a special costly poison, being developed for the purpose, and lay it on the ground to destroy the nymphs before they emerge.
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