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| maginnovision:
--- Quote from: Nusa on July 03, 2020, 05:30:47 am --- --- Quote from: maginnovision on July 03, 2020, 01:24:44 am ---You can't even buy masks right now because of the institutional hoarding --- End quote --- That was true early on, but you're out of date, at least in California (which I believe is your location also). I've seen them on the shelves, or you can order them: https://www.walmart.com/browse/health/face-coverings-masks/976760_3386211 --- End quote --- I should have specified. I meant masks that can protect the wearer(n/p/r). I usually keep stock of p95 masks for my own uses but since this started it's been all but impossible to get them. I've been using them and some sealed motorcycle sunglasses for all my doctor's appts(hospitals and specialists) and when I needed new tires installed(I can't balance single sided swingarm at home). I've started postponing my doctor appointments since I can't replenish my stock. Since the mask mandate the cheap masks that are more effective in protecting others have been available and cheap. |
| paulca:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 01, 2020, 07:16:27 pm ---I admire the American constitution, but I don't understand why such an old document is not being kept up-to-date as time goes and society changes - surely America has moved on in 200 odd years... --- End quote --- YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE Nth AMENDMENT. Dumbest thing ever said.... em.... it's an amendment. It's like looking at a datasheet with an erratum and saying, "You can't change the 5th erratum!" |
| tom66:
The US constitution is literally designed to be hard to change. You need 2/3rd of senators and house members to agree. Then to ratify it, 3/4ths of states have to agree. Given most of the senate and states would disagree which day of the week it was to spite the other, I don't see anything but the most broadly-supported amendments passing. Sadly. |
| tom66:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 03, 2020, 12:36:05 am ---If you knew you have HIV, would it be OK to express your freedom to have sex with whoever you want without telling them of your status? And as often-cited, freedom of speech doesn't mean you can shout 'Fire!' in a packed theatre without consequences. Neither of those involve illegal acts, so why is your freedom to pass covid19 around greater than someones freedom to not die prematurely because of your behaviour? --- End quote --- It is in fact illegal to knowingly pass HIV in the many states of the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_transmission_of_HIV_in_the_United_States It strikes me that COVID-19 should be similar. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: tom66 on July 03, 2020, 11:19:07 am ---The US constitution is literally designed to be hard to change. You need 2/3rd of senators and house members to agree. Then to ratify it, 3/4ths of states have to agree. Given most of the senate and states would disagree which day of the week it was to spite the other, I don't see anything but the most broadly-supported amendments passing. Sadly. --- End quote --- The fact that it's very hard to change is by design. We've never had a monarch who could be the final deciding factor, the constitution is quite literally the foundation on which the entire framework is built upon. If it was easier to change things would be chaotic, we already have problems in this era of social media mobs and rapid (mis)information flow of the sides shifting more and more toward polarized extremes, flipping from one to the other as people get sick of whichever side is in power and vote in the other side. The constitution provides inalienable fundamental rights, it is in a sense sacred. The dysfunction you noted is a serious problem though, stemming from the ever increasing polarization and I don't really know how to solve that. I'd really like to see much of the current government replaced with mature adults, people who have a pragmatic approach and some willingness to work together rather than viewing anyone on the other side as the enemy. I've never really understood the fanaticism and devotion so many people show toward their political party, both sides are occasionally right and often wrong, extremism is at risk of destroying us. |
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