(05-18-2022 05:08 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote: [ -> ]You're the one dodging and weaving to avoid being wrong - my God, the lack of self-awareness is astounding. You're even making up quotes to try and "prove" that you're right.
Laughable. Dodge, parry
Quote:For starters, your first post was about "people handling food," which is why I asked for clarification on what you meant because of how common it is to call someone who is serving food a "food handler." I wanted to make sure we were talking about the same thing, since I wasn't sure if you had misunderstood me.
I was directly responding to your comment about grocery stores. Grocery stores by definition have food. As I said, grocers handle food; Patrons of grocers handle food. I even explained how I personally wore a SINGLE glove and why... because I didn't want to touch food that had been touched by numerous others and then touch my wallet and debit card. For me to bring up any other context of 'handling food' would be to deflect and dodge. I did not. I made up no quotes whatsoever, and you know it. Quit lying. I have made it quite clear that I did not in any way misunderstand what you wrote. You even admit this later.
Quote:You're now accusing me of being evasive because I asked for clarification on your post, and I've provided clarification on mine.
Not remotely the same thing, Lad. I needed no clarification of yours.... obviously. You simply now claim that you didn't mean what you wrote. That's not on me.
Quote:Seriously, you're accusing me of being evasive because, as I admitted, I didn't specify that I was speaking of patrons in the original post and NOT grocery store employees and I'm now telling you what I meant. And you're also trying to argue that my initial post was meant to be limited, and not just an example of an activity that occurred more broadly (like what 93 posted about).
Nope, Never said anything like this. I told you that I addressed both patrons and employees of the store. You are being evasive because you ignore the differences between 'what you do' when going to a grocery store and 'what you do' when voting or dropping off ballots. THIS is what I said, and what you CONTINUE to ignore, focusing instead upon something that doesn't exist. The only limitation I mentioned was that you only mentioned grocery stores, so I only responded about grocery stores. It doesn't mean it couldn't apply in other contexts. This is you dodging again. I spoke about handling food because you spoke about grocery stores. That doesn't limit the conversation, it simply keeps it in the context that YOU chose.
If you asked about grocery stores and I changed the context to restaurants, THAT would have been wrong... because the situations/how you act/what you do there isn't the same. People wore nitrile gloves to serve your food at restaurants LONG BEFORE the pandemic.
So even when you try and deflect things back to me, you fail.
Quote:Second, here is the first time I said anything about a glove shortage, to which you pushed back initially, arguing that there wasn't a shortage in January.
Quote:I don’t even live in that big of a city, but I saw plenty of people wearing them. So much so, that there was even a national shortage…
Did you or did you not say what I quoted? The above comment doesn't in any way conflict with the other. You may be talking about the same period, or they could be different periods... but you ABSOLUTELY said that 'demand
around the election caused a shortage'. That's what you said. It is unclear and immaterial if you were referring to the same 'demand' above or a different 'demand'. LOGIC would imply that it was a 'different' demand, since the demand that caused the shortage was driven by the pandemic which began many months before the election... hence my supposition that you meant a second wave. Either way, your comment that 'demand around the election caused a shortage' is patently false. It doesn't matter if you meant a first or second wave. Demand around the election didn't cause a shortage. The pandemic caused a shortage. Once again, you say something wrong and its my fault for reacting to what you said??
Quote:You were clearly off on your timing because January 2020, prior to the pandemic, isn't relevant to the discussion of November 2020. But I digress...
Dude... 1) I didn't say it started in January... I think I said feb-april, which was NOT 'prior to the pandemic'. If I mentioned January, it was because in January, I had no trouble receiving supplies for centers I was opening in February. The fact that you have to lie again about what I said to try and make your weak point is telling.
2) Any conflation I made between the periods was the result of YOUR now admitted (in the next line) poorly worded comment. You said the election in November caused the shortage, but the shortage began in Feb-April. You're blaming me for something you clearly caused??? Typical
Quote:You're now in this weird gotcha attempt about an, admittedly, poorly worded follow up about the high demand around election time causing a shortage. The point I was trying to make is regardless of the election timing. My point was that average people were wearing nitrile gloves during 2020 - that it was not uncommon. And that went well up through the election (I'd probably peg it at mid-year 2021 when the first dose of vaccine roll outs were mostly done). Whether or not it was difficult to get gloves isn't germane.
So your comment that demand around the election caused a shortage wasn't only poorly worded, but not germane. I appreciate the admission, but I am AMAZED at how you've turned this around on me. I didn't make the poorly worded and non-germane comment... YOU did... so why am I the 'bad guy' here? Oh yeah, because I responded to what you said and then noticed when you tried to change what you said.
Yes, as I said, I think you absolutely intended to imply that things were 'worse' around the election in order to make your opinion about this guy wearing gloves seem even more reasonable... and the problem for you now is that you realize that you can't support what you actually wrote... so you're trying to walk it back, but still somehow blame ME for your 'poorly worded' and 'non-germane' comments?? You can't make this sort of **** up.
Quote:If it makes you feel better, I can remove any reference to a shortage of PPE - whether and when there was a shortage is not at all the most important issue here, yet you feel the need to gnaw on it aggressively. A lack of a shortage (perhaps because supply increased!) doesn't change the logic that's present - which is that regular people did wear nitriles out in public to avoid touching things with bare hands.
I do think the simplest answer as to why someone accessing a public drop box in the middle of a pandemic, especially pre-vaccine, is that they were being overly cautious and avoiding touching common objects. I say that because I saw many, many examples of it during the pandemic. Again, it looks like we had very different pandemic experiences, since you say you did not see that.
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Sure... and I addressed this... but you STILL can't explain why this person made multiple drops. As I said, you've taken ONE action (the wearing of gloves) and acted as if that is the only 'unusual' thing. As I said many posts ago... it is the COMBINATION of actions that creates the suspicion. One person wearing gloves dropping off one ballot would not be that unusual at all. That is your scenario. One person dropping off 20? A little suspicious, but still okay. Wearing gloves? A little more suspicious, but okay... Doing it numerous times? Hmmmm... Doing it in numerous jurisdictions?? Okay, NOW I've got questions. You?? Nope, its all just normal. That's a pretty strange set of events. Does it PROVE anything? Of course not. It COULD be a simple strange confluence of events... but it's hardly the simplest answer.... especially when you note that it wasn't just this one guy doing this... but was instead numerous.
You're right that the shortage makes no difference, since also as I said, this guy apparently had no trouble getting them. The simplest answer there to ME is that the whole reason you made this 'poorly worded comment' was that you were trying to 'up the ante' in terms of how bad things were with the pandemic around the election... which serves the sole purpose of making someone wearing gloves even less suspicious. That's why you said it, and you know it. The problem is, there is more to it than that...
I wonder if you'd think it were the simplest answer if Trump had won by a few thousand votes in numerous jurisdictions? I'm betting not.