Doug Morris

It's a little more complicated. To the extent that the measures, rightly or wrongly, keep people indoors, that would help with air pollution. Masks would help with sufficiently large particles of pollution.

We can not prove mathematically that arithmetic is consistent. But we can make a rational judgment about it. To what extent does Quantum Mechanics, including Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, actually show that there are limits to knowledge at the physical level? To what extent does it instead simply show that subatomic particles must be viewed as waves of a certain kind, not as point particles?

Of course this would not be relevant to any alleged respiratory disease that does not actually exist, such as the "were-unicorn coronavirus".

I claim that anti-pandemic measures, whether right or wrong, would tend to reduce the incidence of all respiratory diseases. I am not claiming anything specific about the exact extent of this or the extent to which it might or might not vary from one disease to another. I do claim that this effect should be considered when trying to deduce anything from statistics about respiratory disease.

Please note that I did not claim what you say I did.

This is what I meant. Note that I have left out part of your paragraph to more accurately reflect what I meant.

If I signed up before, how do I log in?

This does not make sense. Please clarify.

Can you tell me what this stands for and how I can find it? When I tried I got a lot of stuff about some bank and a little about the Hawaii Bicycling League.

What are your grounds for claiming this?

Where did anyone say or imply this?

Have you considered that anti-pandemic measures, whether right or wrong, would naturally reduce cases of all respiratory diseases?

Rather, recognize that the election was not stolen.

We have a better chance of surviving four years of Biden than of surviving four years of Trump.

I found something in which Harris was clearly supporting peaceful protesters, not rioters. Why do you say she was supporting rioters?

Can you give further examples?

Can you be more specific about what Harris said and what the BLM people did?

A few possibly relevant observations. I understand the American composer Charles Ives made his living selling insurance so financial considerations would not impact his composing. In a free society, starting ones own very small business (maybe a pushcart?) would be a good start for a poor person trying to better themselves. I once read of some educated middle-class types who tried to start such a business, but had to give it up because government bureaucracy was too much of an obstacle. If they couldn't do it, how many less educated poor people could? Robert Ringer once wrote that he had had a number of small business failures, and it was never because of having to compete with big companies. In every case, he could trace it either to his own mistakes or to government interference. Different people run into a wall of limitations on their mathematical ability at different stages. One calculus textbook I studied suggested that calculus is the main such wall. I once had a student who succeeded in calculus but seemed to run into his wall with differential equations. The man who wrote Goedel, Escher, Bach wrote that he had originally wanted to be a mathematician, but ran into his wall when he entered graduate school. He switched to computer science.

A ballpark is very different from a country. People who can't accept Yankee Stadium's policies can just avoid the place. It is very wrong to argue the same way about the whole country. If the government granted anyone a monopoly on the sale of beverages, that would violate rights.

Trump stirred up threats and harassment against innocent election workers, driving at least some of them to quit. He also stirred up tampering with the system that made it harder for some people to vote and easier for politicians to interfere. He stirred up the Jan. 6 insurrection. What violent rioters? What indication of further violence?

We also have to make clear how "ought" can be derived from "is". Ayn Rand has done this, but most people don't know it yet.

So far, everyone on this thread has ignored Trump's attack on our system of democratic elections and orderly transfers of power. This is a more direct and immediate threat to our rights and our general well-being than any of the other issues mentioned. The only alternative to our system of democratic elections and orderly transfers of power is a contest of physical force to determine who comes to power. That is a fast track to dictatorship. People's willingness to believe Trump's lies without evidence looks cultish to me.

Violating the right to freedom of movement is both more clear-cut and much more impactful than requiring people to vaccinate. Letting germs spread is more dangerous than letting people into the country.

Ayn Rand lived in Manhattan. I have driven successfully in each of the six communities other than Manhattan in which I have owned a car, and on cross country trips. I tried driving in Manhattan but gave it up for public transport because I feared it would turn me into an offensive driver.

This was necessary because the Trumpers had already demonstrated their willingness to use violence to overturn legitimate election results.