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1) Wearing a mask inhibits oxygen flow and the body's ability to kill a virus.

2) 'Science' is being used to stifle dissent. Facts are inconvenient to some.

3) Muslims seem to be immune from the virus. 

4) AFL-CIO has no statement or stand on working people being labeled 'essential' or 'non-essential'.

5) How can you live in a free country with no common sense?

6) People love their government, not the people they live with.

7) Truth has no meaning in most people's lives.

8) Memorial Day is over. Can you explain to me what the 'ultimate sacrifice' was for?

9) Why would anyone volunteer to give up the thing that gives them joy?

10) There are some who still believe "every vote counts".

The Future is Cloudy

Start "Em Young, Hooked Forever:

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/146551

The use of powerful antipsychotics with privately insured children, aged 2 through 5 in the US, doubled between 1999 and 2007, according to a study of data on more than one million children with private health insurance in the January, 2010, "Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry,"

The lead researcher on the study above, Columbia University psychiatry professor Mark Olfson, told Reuters that about 1.5% of all privately insured children between the ages of 2 and 5, or one in 70, received some type of psychiatric drug in 2007, be it an antipsychotic, a mood stabilizer, a stimulant or an antidepressant.

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If There Is Ever A Reason:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/20/hamas-burns-tramadol-painkillers-smuggled-gaza

Hamas officials in Gaza burned nearly 2 million painkiller tablets in a hospital incinerator today in a crackdown on a drug that has become an increasingly popular escape from the hardships of daily life.

"We're all living in a hard psychological situation and we used Tramadol to forget our daily worries and problems," Khalil, a 25-year-old student in Gaza City told the Associated Press. "I go to Tramadol so I can forget all that."

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Help Is On The Way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality

Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer.