“when people are triggered by threat cues [ie, masks] in consumer spaces, their purchasing behavior changes. Folks engage in “discretionary thrift,” switching from more to less expensive goods... They avoid consumer items they haven’t tried before, which are often bought on impulse. They linger less long in stores...”
I knew a brilliant woman, an attorney, specialized to family law. She got out of it and went to criminal defense work: she was sick of doing these divorces. The spite, the cruelty, the damage it did to the kids -
It's easy to see why these bastards would make masks an issue, once you've come to terms with all that.
@futurebird
it's not specifically related to covid19, but the GOP has spent decades attacking safety regulations on food, and they will surely continue those efforts.
@Kaetchi With my luck it will be unpasteurized but still homogenized for some reason. I hate homogenized milk. It’s not creamy. I love pasteurized milk however because I’m a foodie not someone with a death wish.
@futurebird@Kaetchi I drank unpasteurized EXACTLY ONCE and came down with a kind of infection that had to be reported to the State Department of Health.
It's even more dangerous to people accustomed to pasteurized milk. Unpasteurized milk remains drinkable for perhaps 4 days, and even then you are still risking disease.
People think it "tastes better" simply because it must be drunk very fresh, and few people have had really fresh milk it is different, but it just as good when pasteurized.
At some more fancy grocery stores you'll find it "pasteurized cream top" homogenization makes milk into an emulsion that won't separate into cream ... consumers find the separation unsettling so almost all milk is homogenized. But you just have to shake it.
Or use the cream on your morning biscuit, and drink the rest like 2 percent.
Didn't know that unhomogenized milk is more difficult to get in some places, that's interesting. We have both pasteurized and homogenized options in normal grocery stores.
When I was a child, we got fresh raw milk directly from the next farm, it really tastes quite different. However, I won't defend that just because I was lucky.
We can learn new things and I wouldn't drink raw milk today.
@futurebird@sundiesel@Kaetchi We used to get our milk fresh from the cow. I never did like cow's milk much, and started showing digestive issues with it in my late teens. Oh, well.
@futurebird@sundiesel@Kaetchi reminds me that if you want a really good fresh peach you need to pick it off the tree and eat it right away. Even the peaches on the farm roadside stand is not as good.
I once tried making bagels. Learned that traditionally you should eat them 15 minutes after cooking. Not designed to last for long.
@futurebird In NYC I think it's at least partially to do with "We spent all this money on a facial recognition network and by god we're not going to let pesky masks interfere with building our database."
@futurebird The press needs to dig deep on this - there is big money behind mask bans, anti-vaxxers and other challenges to rational public health policy.
It's always been there - remember the anti-fluoridation campaigns in the 1950s? Somebody's getting rich off of this.
@futurebird The why is that their whole thing is signaling loyalty to the group, so that if you’re a member you are protected, and if not you can be openly attacked.
It actually works better if the signaling mechanism is something that puts your safety at risk, or stating as factual something that is clearly nonsense. If the mechanism were something that was a sensible thing to do anyway, it wouldn’t really mean anything about your level of loyalty to the group.
I happen to know that pro-Palestinian protestors were asking that everyone wear masks at places like Duke University to keep everyone from getting doxed by hostile "journalists" taking pictures of faces.
I think the NC mask ban may be directly related to this.
@futurebird I was thinking about this yesterday while commuting into the city. Not a lot of people still wear masks, but I feel like in Penn Station it's like 1-2%. Those people are going to avoid going into the city if mask bans come in the place, I know I would. The mayor keeps complaining not enough people commute into the city anymore and it's impacting the economy. So why try and turn off 1% of those who do.
Someone compared wearing masks to being punk.
Then it becomes a little bit more obvious. The Mohawk is a sign for you not wanting to be part of their group.
@futurebird A clear example of virtue signalling by easily offended snowflakes who want to use big government to shut down freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
They just keep pushing their agenda while infringing on the rights of ordinary freedom-loving citizens who don't agree with their "correct" political positions.
And whose tax dollars are going to be spent to enforce this agenda? It's yet another example of the kind of wasteful spending by fiscally reckless rightists.