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Originally Posted by wdmso
Inside no masks close quarters and outside majority with masks moving about yes. their close but the 2 are not remotely the same
Saw one example Trump rally 18x more likely to transmit covid
The protesters are not wanted by the POTUS or many Americans
But Trump has promoted his rally encouraging no masks by his cabinet's example sign wavers and pass out masks and handsantizer , as a ploy to show responsibility.. mixed messages that's an understatement but the Typical trump supporters its  unless Trump says different then its  for joy |
It is the same. Ten thousand people in a confined space for 4 hours in one session versus a million people over two weeks in multiple sessions in many locations with some distancing and some mask wearing.
One side gets hammered by the press and medical profs and the other side gets hugs.
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Originally Posted by scottw
I bought this last year....only example I've seen in 30 some years of doing what I do and the earliest Emancipation item in pottery/porcelain item I've seen....this is the first date of Emancipation following the British Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which began in the British West Indies, interesting to read about because it wasn't full Emancipation till 1838 most continued to work under apprenticeships till 1838...
Juneteenth should be a National holiday  |
Very interesting.
Also interesting, France and England abolished slavery at different times but still somewhat before the US. But when France and Britain hold their noses at us one must remember they stopped it just before we did and they were responsible for it in the Americas.
England stopped the Slave Trade in the early 1800s but did not abolish it until 1833.
France abolished slavery in 1798?? but Bonaparte restarted and it lasted another 30 years.
England started the West Africa Squadron early 1800s to STOP slave ships from Africa to the Americas (vast majority NOT to the USA) and the US Navy started assisting them a dozen years later.
The USS Constitution was the US Navy's Flagship of a couple Anti- Slavery patrols and captured a Slaver on her last actual tour of Duty as a combatant.
So Western slavery, which existed for over a 1000 years (total 10,000 years??) was being (finally) exhaustively strangled during the 1800s. France and England beat us by a couple decades, the decreed it, we had to go to war to stop it.