Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "Reuters"
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@David-vn2id seems that you haven't been listening.
The cloth face coverings that everyone is wearing now aren't supposed to protect you from breathing the virus, they are to reduce how much virus a sick person spreads.
When you breathe, droplets can go several feet, and droplets will mostly be stopped by the a bandana or simple cloth mask.
So they are to reduce the spread of the virus, not to protect the wearer, but to protect others.
And if everyone wears them, most of virus spread will stop, because the spit bombs won't fly away.
And they made it clear why they recommended at the beginning against buying masks, and that was because if everyone was buying up all the n95 masks, they would not be able to get what they needed for the actual medical staff working in rooms full of coughing sick people.
If mask availability had not been an issue, they would have asked everyone at the beginning, but with a lock down they achieved something very similar.
Also, they didn't lie, because at the beginning they were saying that wearing a mask won't protect you from breathing the virus, unless it's an n95 respirator, and that's still true.
But now we are being asked to wear masks not to protect ourselves, but to protect everyone else.
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@Epic Black Man Umm, and how exactly can Epic create a monopoly? What do they hold control over. Fortnight?
You realize that there are thousands of other games out there people can play, so Epic can't create a monopoly unless they can shut down all the other games and game companies.
That's like saying that Pizza Hut is trying to create a monopoly by opening stores in every town, even though there are thousands of other stores that are unaffected by pizza hut.
But Apple is like a Gated Community that will only allow Pizza Hut to deliver to a homeowner in that community if pizza hut pays 30 percent of the price to the gate guard, and the homeowner isn't even allowed to go pick it up themselves, no pizza may enter unless it pays the gate guard.
Now pizza hut is suing the HOA over the fees, saying that the homeowner has the right to pizza without having to pay the gate guard for access to the home they own.
I don't like pizza hut very much, but if they want to spend their money to benefit all pizza places and all homeowners, I like their goal, even if I have no interest in Fortnight.
(though their other big product, Unreal Engine is the foundation of many games, and is used by Hollywood a lot as well in production, and Apple is now trying to block them from being able to provide that even to Mac os computers.
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@Simming Madness there's a difference between having a phone issued by work, and having to have an Apple device to access company systems that are Apple os based.
Like my last job, everyone used Apple, and so I needed an iPhone to be part of the team.
And in order to have a monopoly, you are right, you have to have exclusive control over the marketplace.
Which is EXACTLY what Apple has for the entire Apple ecosystem.
And you can also run afoul of monopoly laws when there is a duopoly as well, which is why Google is also being sued.
And if you ask anyone who is deeply invested in the Apple ecosystem, there is no other choice, because if you are using Apple computers and services, you have to have an iPhone, and they have the monopoly over that.
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