Originally Posted by
Mark Rippetoe
This is such absolute bullshit:
And this will work for most people.
In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself. We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching on the trail and we needed to put on our masks. Once, when another child got too close to my then-4-year-old son on a bridge, he yelled at her “SOCIAL DISTANCING!”
These precautions were totally misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know.
Mild child abuse. I’ve seen it at my church not many months ago - a large family in a long line, from tallest to smallest, masked. Haven’t seen them since, but that might’ve been at the early Mass.
No reason to read Emily further other than out of morbid curiosity.
The Cloud of Unknowing is inescapable. There is no reasoned path to correct understanding. Everything is a roll of the dice, even the most ridiculous political contests (anticausal - appropriate). But it is a romantic journey. And we soar SOAR through the vacuum, with quantum foam in our wake.