Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Covid, masks. Date: 17 Sep 2025 03:36:55 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <108kv17$73g4$5@dont-email.me> <20250827165330.81eb46a2f8f86d5efb83f0c7@127.0.0.1> <108nnmo$t297$1@dont-email.me> <108q123$1g1ph$1@dont-email.me> <108q9ne$1ieq4$1@dont-email.me> <10a3pjn$egqn$1@dont-email.me> <10a4el4$km8l$2@dont-email.me> <10a5s8v$1360o$5@dont-email.me> <10a60uc$148fh$1@dont-email.me> <10a6r88$1d082$1@dont-email.me> <10a8gq3$261sn$1@news1.tnib.de> <63tnplx3sm.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Ej+SjpF6QTzbI1QNGalijAmgP+Of7FA5vxS2ZN31QS9MKxKcHR Cancel-Lock: sha1:04snowl+CKuD+ke0/4z0vqFvyrI= sha256:wH01JekMfiQ98U7475k3CdgqUKOojIGujmXLYxn3m9I= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74372 On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:12:34 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2025-09-16 21:49, rbowman wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:08:54 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> >>> The aversion to masks is mostly a USA thing. And perhaps also a >>> political thing, everything is heavily politicized over there. And >>> political means hatred, even to the point of shooting one another. >>> With a president that does what he can to increase hatred and >>> violence, instead of appeasing it. >> >> The time of appeasing the 'progressives' may be over. > > So, you want a civil war? I would prefer an amicable divorce like the Czech Republic and Slovakia managed. They seem to be getting along a lot better when they don't have to live in the same geographical boundary. That has many problems. I'm afraid it would be a nationwide replication of Bloody Kansas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas Even now you have semi-serious efforts like eastern Oregon wanting to join Nevada or Idaho. Culturally they align with the conservative states not the liberal coastal cities like Portland. Portland has the population and can call the shots and it rankles. Even when I was a kid in upstate NY we had more in common with Vermont, about 20 miles away, than Sodom-on-the- Hudson 150 miles downstream. On a larger scale you can differentiate the red and blue states but there are pockets of blue in the red states and vice versa. Is there some miracle glue that can hold together 330+ million people that do not share cultural values? I don't know.