You with the chamber of commerce or sell real estate? I bet that is their motto!
No but you said it yourself in post #258, facts are facts. Anyone is welcome to come/go as they please.
This is where I disagree. What I've observed is people wearing masks are fiddling with the mask and touching their faces much more frequently than those who are not wearing masks. If you could wear your mask all day long without touching it, it might be better than nothing. We all know that is impossible.....
That's a valid point, and they're only effective when properly worn. That means fit and placement, as well as not messing with it. That said, it's not "impossible" to wear a mask without touching your face. Medical personnel have done it in hospitals long before Covid, and they continue to wear them without fidgeting with it. This takes self control to develop the habit to get used to something on your face, but once you get used to wearing a mask you can easily wear it for a long time without fidgeting with it. This is no different than putting glass on someone for the first time. They are constantly are adjusting them and/or touching them. After a while they get used to how they feel on their face and walk around all day without touching their glasses at all.
FWIW, there were areas in my oncologist's office/treatment center where masks were required to be worn even before Covid. So at the very least you can potentially protect yourself from the flu, a cold or other illnesses. For those who've been weakened by chemo a simple cold may not be so simple and potentially fatal. When the stakes are that high, you can learn to not touch your face pretty quick.
Having said all that, you are absolutely right that the majority of the public wearing masks aren't wearing them correctly, and most people won't leave it alone. But if you wear it right it's better than nothing.
My wife asked me to stop singing “I’m a believer”
by the Monkees because she found it annoying.
At first I thought she was kidding.
But then I saw her face…
Boooooo.
No it wasn't......it's a military term.....some attribute to Hitler...get your facts right!
The term assault rifle is generally attributed to Adolf Hitler, who used the German word Sturmgewehr (which translates to "assault rifle") as the new name for the MP 43 (Maschinenpistole), subsequently known as the Sturmgewehr 44.
Technically
Sturmgewehr could also be translated to storm rifle.
German is a very interesting language, and surprisingly similar to English's rules. The part that makes German difficult is you see these big long words. That's actually just nouns jammed together to make one word. For examples
orangensaft (orange juice) or
hundehaus (dog house). So
Strum Gewehr is two words jammed together.
Moving on with our German lesson. The other thing that really messes with people (and muddies the water in this case) is that some words have multiple meanings. For example
tor can mean goal or gate. Likewise
Sturm typically means storm, but it's use in
Sturmgewehr has pretty much become an accepted translation to assault rifle. One could also use
angriff for attack or assault so you could probably more accurately use A
ngriffsgewehr to say assault rifle.
So since Hitler didn't translate it to English, and the term assault rifle didn't exist at the time, we can only speculate that he wasn't calling it a storm rifle.