RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 20, 2021 at 12:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2021 at 1:18 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(August 20, 2021 at 10:39 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(August 20, 2021 at 5:27 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm still struggling with trying to understand why so many USians are refusing to wear a mask. I mean, it's not like they were being asked to wear a Nickelback t-shirt or something.
Boru
For about the same reason many people in the US are getting offended by the suggestion everybody should wear the MAGA hat. Mask is a political symbol, and not just in the US.
Here in the Southern Hemisphere, we refer to what I said as a ‘joke’ or a ‘jest’. This means it is a statement or remark intended to be taken humorously, and as such does not require a serious reply.
No offense taken, as I’m sure that living as closely as you do to Eastern Europe - a place which, by all accounts, has the reputation of being the epitome of dour - jokes and jests are somewhat unfamiliar to you.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson