Just by chance, I ran across these cool propaganda posters from 1942 from the U.S. Public Health Service. The artist is H. Price. They just show idealized health habits (of interest to the government in WWII).
So... rest easy!
I copied part of another in my post about Trump's exhorting the state governors to dominate so they don't look like a "bunch of jerks." The one I put there showed the big man bowling. Trump had said that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz knocked the protesters down "like bowling pins" so it fit nicely (once I removed the text — "Fun, off the job keeps him on the job").
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"His mask keeps him on the job."
And apparently that little hat keeps his brain from falling out!
There was rioting in some Democratics' cities in conservative states. They were ended in short order.
The rioting in Democratics' cities in Democratics' states fared poorly.
The New England Journal of Medicine has published an article stating that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little protection from infection and assesses their true value as anxiety alleviation.
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.
The calculus may be different, however, in health care settings. First and foremost, a mask is a core component of the personal protective equipment (PPE) clinicians need when caring for symptomatic patients with respiratory viral infections, in conjunction with gown, gloves, and eye protection. Masking in this context is already part of routine operations for most hospitals. What is less clear is whether a mask offers any further protection in health care settings in which the wearer has no direct interactions with symptomatic patients.
…It is also clear that masks serve symbolic roles. Masks are not only tools, they are also talismans that may help increase health care workers’ perceived sense of safety, well-being, and trust in their hospitals. Although such reactions may not be strictly logical, we are all subject to fear and anxiety, especially during times of crisis.
AA - here's an update to the current propoganda on masks!
"....a mask outside health care facilities offers little protection from infection and assesses their true value as anxiety alleviation...."
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
Why isn't this guy in the military?
Why isn't this guy in the military?
Maybe he works in a shipyard or a steel mill. My Dad spent the War working in a foundry, my wife's Dad ran a grain elevator. Neither one was allowed to join up.
The riots just force the truth out in the open.
The entire reaction to COVID-19 was a hoax.
COVID-19 was a flu that was specifically deadly to a small group of people.
The shutdown and Government action had nothing to do with reducing the spread of a pandemic or saving lives. Shipping COVID-19 positive people to nursing homes was explicitly meant to kill as many people as possible.
If the government did nothing fewer people would have died.
The shutdown was a power grab by democrats pure and simple.
The New England Journal of Medicine has published an article stating that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little protection from infection and assesses their true value as anxiety alleviation.
The NEJM went to shit when Marcia Angell took over but maybe they can produce a fact from time to time.
No matter what the crisis is, it seems that living under the rule of Democrats makes it much much worse. It's not just the decisions they make in real time, but much more the decisions made by their predecessors combined with the current ones inability to see outside the Dem/Left box for answers and solutions. They will not make things better. They don't know how, or even have a realistic vision of how they could be better.
..a mask outside health care facilities offers little protection from infection and assesses their true value as anxiety alleviation...
How amazing that these masks work inside health care facilities, but suddenly stop working once you go outside.
My dad was a professional baseball player. He was ineligible for the draft during WW2, because of a beaning that caused mild epilepsy. Physical handicaps aren't always apparent.
If he wants his mask to seal he needs to shave.
@tcross...interesting bit of info.
Lancet being hammered for shoddy work on HCL. Seems all these "experts" need to do to get the skinny on stuff these days is to read this blog. Do the "experts" gain their status because the smart folks don't put up with the bullshit and leave their jobs and what we get are the bottom of the barrel? Last man standing sort of process? EPIC fail.
the Airbrush--
...the Greatest Generation's 'Photoshop'
That guy is totally gay.
In some jobs a mask is absolutely essential to health. I wear one whenever cleaning soot- not that it stops all of it. Hearing protection is also essential for long term health. When I was younger I made sure to purchase good receiver, good speakers, good amplifiers, and set them all up correctly. Now, I'm satisfied with the speakers from my 60" television. The kids always ask why my wife and I have it turned up so loud....
There were lots of draft exempt jobs during both WWI and WWII. Don't know about previous wars. Merchant sailors among them. In WWII they were subject to military law and discipline. It wasn't until 1988 they were recognized as veterans. The government awarded my uncle medals for all theaters of operation during the war, and the WWII victory medal post war. AFAIK, no other "civilian" occupation was awarded medals during the war. As far as being drafted goes, in January 1942 he was turned down for enlistment in the Navy, Army, and Marines. In 1995 the VA removed his cataracts that he apparently had since his teen years. He discovered that most of his shirts were really ugly...
Why exempt jobs? The shipyard needs skilled welders to produce ships. Draft the skilled welders to man the ships- there'll be no ships to man... Same goes with any and every wartime production line. Ammo, tanks, trucks- if you were producing something needed for the war effort, you were likely exempt from the draft.
Own three artist's airbrushes; two Iwatas and one Paasche. Even though I occasionally use them for highlighting, the techniques I most appreciate are the classic frisket and x-acto knife so prevalent in the it's heyday in the thirties and forties. It has a computer generated smooth effect before personal computers. I became interested in the early seventies when I was a drawing and painting major, inspired by the cool pop illustrations and album covers recalling a forties esthetic with a dose of irony. Stars of the period were such artists as Peter Palombi, known for his album covers and movie posters such as "American Graffiti", Peter Lloyd, associated with work such as Rod Stewart's "Atlantic Crossing" album cover, and Philip Castle, recognized for examples such as David Bowie's "Aladdin Sane" cover.
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