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   From: notgenx32@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/5/2021 8:02 AM, Yak wrote:   
   > On 3/5/21 10:54 AM, Bill Flett wrote:   
   >> On 3/5/2021 7:49 AM, Yak wrote:   
   >>> On 3/5/21 10:00 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >>>> Great column by Krugman, whom I mostly dislike, on the identity politics   
   of   
   >>>> Republiscums refusing to wear masks:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>     Of course, we know what’s actually going on here: politics.   
   Refusing to   
   >>>> wear   
   >>>>     a mask has become a badge of political identity, a barefaced   
   declaration   
   >>>> that   
   >>>>     you reject liberal values like civic responsibility and belief in   
   science.   
   >>>>     (Those didn’t used to be liberal values, but that’s what they   
   are in   
   >>>> America   
   >>>>     2021.)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/opinion/coronavirus-mask   
   .html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Spot-on correct.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Freedom and liberty   
   >>   
   >>> works [sic] better.   
   >>   
   >> No, people thinking they are at liberty to do just whatever they want, when   
   they   
   >> want, doesn't work at all.  That leads to death.   
      
   Your concession of defeat is noted.   
      
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