I wonder how it would break out if you used two coffee filters.
I realize this, but it might be the way things end up having to be. Lost education time can be made up, if it comes to that. Learning is a lifelong process, and the more you know, the more you are capable of learning, the easier it gets. For instance, I find that right now, I can pick up something in Italian and almost read it “cold”, based on knowledge of French and Spanish. If I didn’t know French and Spanish (I’m not fluent by any stretch of the imagination), I wouldn’t be able to do that. I learned Polish organically and idiomatically as well as in the classroom, and I find that to a certain extent, I can think in Polish. (I’m not fluent in it either.) I can’t do that in French or Spanish.
My son and I have been blessed beyond measure, unfairly, I suppose — we homeschool, I am retired, I was able to get a fine, broad-based education which enables me to teach him with confidence, we have enough money to live on decently (but no more than that), we have a stable home life, and CV has affected our life only minimally. I am keenly aware that if even one of these “legs of the stool”, so to speak, weren’t there, it would be very difficult to keep going throughout all of this.
I’d also say the 4th, and to a lesser extent, the 5th Amendments. The government has no authority to request such information - even if it is only to “help us”.
My thinking, too. The lists are kept primarily because while the Archbishop is asking people to sign up to go to Mass at only one parish, he’s not restricting people to signing up at their own parishes. (That, and sometimes people gave the parish their landline phone number years ago, then eliminated their landline, moved, or changed their e-mail address, etc. The contact information needs to be current and immediate, rather than just a correct home address.)
It becomes very hard to breathe through…I tried it!
Maybe punch a few small, strategically-placed holes (1mm or smaller) in the outer filter, so as to let a small amount of air through to be filtered by the inner one, and to relieve pressure on the outer one?HomeschoolDad:
It becomes very hard to breathe through…I tried it!
And yes, masks need to be put on correctly, the must have a wire to shape it over the bridge of your nose…pinch it tightly!..and pull it under your chin. I can’t even count the number of people that wear their masks wrong! Under their nose…above their chin…so loose it’s pointless…drives me nuts!
That sounds like defeating the purpose! Even if you could put 1mm holes in it! Really, I was amazed how much extra filtration one coffee filter made…you can definitely tell the difference. You have to cut the filter to fit the shape of the mask…I had to play around with that to make sure it was covering my nose and mouth. It has almost, but not quite the resistance of an N95…which I also have. I have an N100 mask as well, that one is really hard to breathe through…I found I couldn’t do much exertion without feeling like I was really sucking air hard! And my homemade masks are so much more comfortable. N95 masks are very irritating on my skin.
Question: Did the Japanese Americans–that is, those Americans and residents with even one great-grandparent from Japan–who were rounded up and put into internment camps by the United States government in 1942 by Executive Order 9066 make the mistake of giving their contact information to somebody?
I understand how you feel and I share some of your concerns. Still, I also have to admit that an argument can be easily made that this concept you and I have of a liberty that resists the legitimate authority of the state at every turn is an expression of a novel individualistic modernism that grew out of Enlightenment thinking, not an outgrowth of the Christian faith. It is not an attitude that I can find anywhere in the plain meaning of the teachings of the New Testament.
The problem is that it is not a violation of due process to have a way to trace people during a pandemic. Both the City and the State of New York are very clearly hard hit. (This is NYS, minus NYC):
Please kindly note the constitutional section, or the case law which supports this.
I think not too!