What I’d Say If I Were On Twitter

“The Internet really has sped things up. It takes only a minute for me to sort the two Sunday papers I get, and not much longer than that to read the tiny comics sections.” Hmm… that’s 170 characters. Ten too many? I’d better trim it down.

“The Internet has sped things up. It takes only a minute to sort the two Sunday papers I get, and not much longer than that to read the tiny comics sections.” There, only 156 characters.

I’m not on Twitter, but I’m on Facebook, and every time I go there it asks, “What’s on your mind, Doug?” How about what was on my mind 55 years ago?

A Point Worth Repeating

This is a comment I made on Facebook:

It’s much easier to not infect someone else than it is to avoid being infected yourself. Preventing the spread can be done with the cheap, blue surgical masks. Protecting yourself requires a more expensive, and much less comfortable, N95 mask.

It’s now clear that someone who is fully vaccinated can infect others with Delta-Covid. So the obvious thing for everybody to do, including those of us who are vaccinated, is to return to wearing proper masks in public when indoors. The virus doesn’t know politics, it only knows biology, and yet many people insist on making this a political issue.