• Via Cosh:

Face masks may be inadvertently giving people Covid-19 immunity and making them get less sick from the virus, academics have suggested in one of the most respected medical journals in the world.

The commentary, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, advances the unproven but promising theory that universal face mask wearing might be helping to reduce the severity of the virus and ensuring that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.

If this hypothesis is borne out, the academics argue, then universal mask-wearing could become a form of variolation (inoculation) that would generate immunity and "thereby slow the spread of the virus in the United States and elsewhere" as the world awaits a vaccine.

problem is crid, not many in the public knows how to properly wear a mask, of the fact that you need to clean the reusable ones, and you dont need to wear them in you cars or homes, so some people are starting to get infections from dirty over used masks

Agreed. Many people are idiots. They shouldn't be idiots, and ought not be allowed to imagine their idiocies are admirable expressions of independence and derring-do in a world that doesn't care.

We are connected and interdependent biologically. 'Rona is a pathogen, not a political problem.

May not be your kind of material, but his pitch was spotless.

Probably a horn player's thing.

One reason I knew early that devout Christian belief could not be sustained across a lifetime was that there was no piece of choral music for which I'd not instinctively decide which altos and sopranos I'd like to bang.

Nice pipes, Honey... Sit still.

One reason I knew early that devout Christian belief could not be sustained across a lifetime was that there was no piece of choral music for which I'd not instinctively decide which altos and sopranos I'd like to bang.

Nice pipes, Honey... Sit still.

Crid at September 13, 2020 2:35 PM

Back in the day before TV that was probably one of the few things men in small towns could do. Go to church and ogle the hot women.

And, regarding St. Paul's urging the masses to "salute one another with an holy kiss":

"By the twelfth century, someone in England invented a 'kissing machine' to replace the practice of interpersonal kissing. The device was called an osculatorium or pax and consisted of a handled plaque made of ivory, metal, or wood inscribed with a cross, an image of Christ or the Virgin Mary, or other sacred design. It was kissed first by the priest, then passed around among the congregation.

"Unfortunately, aristocracy was soon claiming a 'right' to kiss the device before all others during services. In addition, the kiss's spiritual application again gave way to its natural carnal association when young men discovered the romantic novelty of kissing the osculatorium immediately after a pretty girl had touched her lips to it.

"So, with scandal again on the rise, the osculatorium fell out of use, and Pope Innocent III forbade ALL kissing during services."

-Danny Biederman.

More on it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_(liturgical_object)

> young men discovered the romantic
> novelty of kissing the osculatorium
> immediately after a pretty girl had
> touched her lips to it.

Masculinity!-

Compelling… Immutable… Weird.

That calls to mind one of Pryor's most percussive one-liners, in the voice of grizzled elder Mudbone: "That girl's so pretty I'd suck her Daddy's dick!"