All good point. But if someone is doing Russian roulette on my head without knowing whether the bullet is loaded or not. I'd rather the person not pull the trigger.

Date of the paper was April 1, two months ago so no boom for you. :1rotfl:

[QUOTE=600th Photo Sq;1774583]Please let me tell you a story. A person dies and goes to the gate. St. Peter asks "would you want to go to heaven or go to hell?" The person wisely answers, "Sir, if you don't mind, I'd like to take a look at both places before I give you my answer". So he went to e hell first. There were enough food for everyone but the chopsticks and forks were too long to feed themselves. Given that they can't feed themselves, when someone throws food in the air, everyone fights to catch it and none gets fed. Next he goes to heaven and saw the same table, same food, same long chopsticks and forks but everyone feeds each other and live happily.. Covid or not, we can decide whether we want to live in hell or heaven. You too, can decide.

[QUOTE=Scbang;1774615]Thanks. That’s a nice parable but, as was cleared up earlier, the source of the “selfishness” concerning flu shots was not me.

Well said!!

[QUOTE=600th Photo Sq;1774635]Sounds like a good idea! Enjoy the rest of your evening. 🍷

[QUOTE=CarolSells;1774619]Something is wrong, I was replying to that "Selfishness" guy. :-)

[QUOTE=Scbang;1774640]Somehow along the way posts got tangled up. 😙.

I'm astonished you're still here to report this obvious infraction. Thankfully you were not 5'11" away! :icon_wink:

Fred

As I mentioned on page 9, you are all not understanding how the quote button works. You're quoting broken quotes, which makes it look like you're responding to someone else..

The first person broke the quote by not including the end-quote code. The second person quoted that broken quote, which carried the broken quote forward to the next poster. And so on and so forth.

All quoted posts should begin with a [ bracket, the word quote, and an end bracket ] . They should also end with a [ bracket, a forward slash / , the word quote, and an end bracket ].

You need to actually check and make sure they have both of these things, before you post your post, or you will continue the broken quote cycle.

You can also preview your own posts, to make sure that you didn't delete that end-quote code by mistake, before you ever submit the post.

You should read the article again and their conclusions. Their conclusions are solid but you've grossly misrepresented the point of the article.

You are absolutely correct.

However, some people post cherry-picked opinion pieces with the knowledge/hope that not everyone (unlike us)...will read the whole thing. :ohdear:

HUH? You're preaching to the choir. I agree with you 200%. You are either replying to the wrong person or the wrong quote or you didn't read the comment or didn't understand what I said. Likely the last. What I tried to say (obviously unsuccessfully) that there are just WAY TOO MANY of these same threads with the same arguments and each "side" has their own SAME OPINION and it's repeated over and over endlessly and no matter what anyone says no one will convince "the other side" to change their OPINION. It's beenbeaten to death endlessly already for weeks.

By your statements, I had no idea you were agreeing with me. Sorry if I misunderstood your use of the word, "opinions".

BTW......I love your signature. Makes me chuckle.

Oh really? Here's what I said.

Everyone should read this paper by two Doctors who are respiratory protection specialists. They looked at all the scientific papers on various types of facemasks and have some solid conclusions. They don't look at youtube videos of someone sneezing thru a tee shirt into a petri dish.

Paper is indeed written by 2 MDs who are respiratory protection specialists.
They did look at scientific studies of various types of facemasks.
They did come to some solid conclusions.
They didn't look at youtube videos of someone sneezing through a tee shirt.

Please point out where I "grossly misrepresented" anything.