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https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/us/ford-mask-covid-trnd/index.html>>>>
>>>>"... things are already f'd up ... "
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>>>I certainly understand that even after 2 COVID shots, a person isn't "pristine" right away. I get that.
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>>>But there's a face validity issue (or at least question) here - why would Ford be announcing this right after the first release of the vaccines?
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>>Not announcing ASAP just to find a lull period in news seems bad as well...
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>>While I certainly can follow the reasoning for hearing impaired, smiles I think might be less relevant than better filtering or less problems for people wearing glasses.
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>The mask are a real problem to my youngest son and his wife. They are both deaf and depend on lip reading to communicate with people who do not know sign language.
Very sad. My father was mute (not deaf and not all his life; from when I was 8 until I was 17) and he encouraged me to learn the sign language. But I was not interested or lazy. So, he had to write to me whatever he wanted to "say".
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
