Purdue professor worries campus mask-optional policy will give people ‘more freedom’

The College Fix ^ | FEBRUARY 21, 2022 | Dave Huber

[metmom]

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[DoodleBob]

As I said previously, this all comes down to managing personal risk, and the reality that some risks can't be avoided.

For example, in the world of investing, there is a concept of risk-minimization whereby you lower your risk of loss or volatility by spreading your eggs across several baskets. However, one risk you cannot diversity away is the "systematic risk" or the risk inherent in the system...call it market risk or whatever, the basic reality is some baseline level of risk will ALWAYS exist, and you can't avoid it.

Let's extend this to the pandemic. There is a risk of infection and death from this very nasty thing called COVID19. It's a real thing. This isn't the flu - many people get it without too many problems and for others it's terrible - this isn't a boating accident.

But it's not Ebola.

So after two years of controls like lockdowns, masks, emotional distancing, and criminalizing freedom to "flatten the curve" blah blah blah, then shots developed under Warp Speed and approved under an Emergency Use Authorization, we STILL are seeing deaths.

This bug is now a systematic risk. Trying to eliminate it is like eliminating systematic risk...it's impossible.

Snowflakes like this professor need to accept the systematic risk that this bug will be here forever, deal with it, and move on with life. For leftists like this rube, that means endless boosters and frequent masking and maybe Depends if he sees an unmasked person. For many others, it'll be none of that.

Or, he can move to a Pandemic Utopia like Canada etc. where he will find many happily masked people but a DIFFERENT systematic risk if his type of thinking falls out of favor...

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Diversity, equity and inclusion departments bring about 10-1 ratios of liberals to conservative teachers at colleges.

[Bookshelf]

Bozo Robert P. Marzec is an associate professor of British and postcolonial literature at Purdue University, associate editor of Modern Fiction Studies, and author of An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature: Empire and Enclosures, from Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie.
In other words, a fake academic.

[Kevmo]

The current C19 variant has a survivability rating HIGHER than the flu. With an overall survivability of 99.6%, this thing was NEVER a pandemic. When you look at the survivability of it OUTSIDE OF the top 4 comorbidities, the data strongly suggests we should have told those top 4 comorbidity groups to stay home and wear double masks while the rest of us go about our bizness, thank you very much.

[Kevmo]

That famous picture of the VietCong dude getting executed doesn’t really match what you’re gettin’ at.

Most people don’t know this, but that Vietnamese general shooting the prisoner had just had his brother-in-law killed by that very same man, in cold blood. The MSM never points that stuff out.

[shooter223]

The incident in the pic you posted happened as follows: “Before being captured Lém had just murdered Lt. Col. Nguyen Tuan as well as Tuan’s wife, six children and his 80-year-old mother.[1]

Lém was brought to South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, who then summarily executed him. ..... Got what he deserved,IMO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_L%C3%A9m

[DoodleBob]

Good to know...how's this instead?

[Kevmo]