Physical Features: Rich, red, brown soils on the High Plains; some hills; drains to upper Brazos River tributaries; numerous playas.
Economy: Agribusiness; distribution center; denim textiles.
History: Apache tribes, who were displaced by Comanches around 1700. The U.S. Army pushed the Comanches into the Indian Territory in 1875. Ranching began in the 1880s; farming started after 1900. County created in 1876 from the Bexar District and organized in 1908; named for Lt. G.A. Lamb, who died in battle of San Jacinto.
Race/Ethnicity: (In percent) Anglo, 38.8; Black, 4.8; Hispanic, 56.0; Asian, 0.4; Other, 1.9; Two or more races, 1.6.
Vital Statistics, annual: Births, 187; deaths, 147; marriages, 74; divorces, 32.
Recreation: Waylon Jennings Birthday Bash in June at Littlefield, museums, Earth Day in April.
Agriculture: Fed cattle; cotton, corn, wheat, grain sorghum, vegetables, soybeans, hay; sheep. 179,500 acres irrigated. Market value $575.3 million.
LITTLEFIELD (5,992) county seat; milk processing, agribusiness, manufacturing; hospital, prison, museum.
Olton (2,088) agribusiness, retail center; Sandcrawl museum; pheasant hunt in winter; Sandhills Celebration in August.
Other towns include: Amherst (670); Earth (975) farming center, dairies, feed lot, supplies; Fieldton (20); Spade (64); Springlake (98); Sudan (891) farming center, government/services, Homecoming Day in fall.
Steam rises from electric power Plant X near Earth. Photo by Robert Plocheck.


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Recently, however, another assault on personal freedom has taken place which should incense Floridians, generally, and local Republicans specifically. It concerns adherence to the rights of states and local jurisdictions to administer their own laws, free from the interference of imposing federal authority; especially when it comes to the courts.
That's just what happened on November 20, when a federal appeals court struck down Boca Raton's ban on conversion therapy for gay adolescents.
So-called "conversion therapy" represents a range of dangerous and widely discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Such practices have been routinely rejected by mainstream mental health organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association and American Medical Association, for decades. However, due to continuing discrimination and societal bias against LGBTQ people, some practitioners continue to conduct conversion therapy.
Minors are especially vulnerable, and conversion therapy can lead to depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness and suicide. According to San Francisco State University, compared with LGBTQ youth who were accepted by their parents because of their identity, rejected LGBTQ minors were eight times more likely to report having attempted suicide. They were also six times more likely to report high levels of depression, and four times more likely to use illegal drugs.
As a resident of Palm Beach, I was exceptionally proud three years ago when our county became the first in Florida to ban conversion therapy. Local officials were actually following the lead of a handful of cities, including Boca Raton, Tampa, Wellington and West Palm Beach, which had already banned the practice. A growing number of municipalities have also enacted similar protections in recent years, including at least 50 cities and counties in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.
When a pair of therapists sued Boca Raton and Palm Beach County earlier this year arguing that the bans violated their First Amendment rights to free speech, efforts to acquire an injunction from the federal District Court were unsuccessful. They appealed to the 11th Circuit, which ruled in their favor.
While we must endeavor to protect the sanctity of our Bill of Rights, the appellate court ruling failed to take into account the specific circumstances as to why the controversial and discredited practice was banned in the first place. In her dissent, Judge Beverly Martin wisely noted that conversion therapy is "known to be a harmful therapeutic practice."
Federal overreach, legislating from the bench and state-sanctioned abuse against vulnerable minors are not conservative values protected by the Bill of Rights. It is my hope that despite the progress we have made in recent years, we also recognize the fight for LGBTQ equality remains far from finished. Freedom is fragile. If America is to serve as a beacon of hope and liberty for the world, we first need to protect the voices and status of those within our own nation.
NANCY BRINKER, PALM BEACH
Editor's note: Brinker served as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and is a founder of The Promise Fund of Florida.

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This capital will be used to further accelerate xTech's growth by hiring additional sales and support personnel, investing in R&D, and increasing market awareness for the company's products and services.
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About xTech, Inc. xTech, Inc. is an information services company that enables online commerce and direct marketing companies to secure more profitable customers while preventing fraud and identity theft. xTech was founded by the industry veterans who built RiskWise, an information services company targeting risk management and fraud prevention that was sold to LexisNexis in 2000. xTech was founded in January of 2004. Companies leverage xTech's extensive data set and proprietary analytical assets to attract, acquire and retain profitable customer relationships. With its predictive data, the ability to transform raw data into meaningful customer insight, and the systems to deliver answers in real-time, xTech is helping customers improve marketing, payment, credit, and fraud decisions. Additional information about xTech can be found at www.xtechllc.com.
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Wow Pete. Getting painterly, where the painting is not so much trying to fool the eye, as direct the mind to the subject, with everything working, but in a stylistic way. Very cool. Something to explore. Looks great. The lighting is good. Also like the way you did the bushes.
Very nice place. I like it. The hills in the background are very nice. It reminds me of my grandpa's home.
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The Gems of Oslo: "Why Is Everybody Naked?"—Visit the Powerful Sculptures in Oslo's Vigeland Park
The Vigeland Park is one of Norway's most visited attractions and the world's largest sculpture park made by one single artist. Discover the artist Gustav Vigeland, and the meaning behind his powerful sculpture park in Oslo. TheOsloBook together with the Oslo Guidebureau invite you to visit this unique place.
Iori Roberts, a professional guide from Oslo Guidebureau about the Vigeland Park:
The Vigeland Sculpture Park
The unique sculpture park is the life work of Gustav Vigeland with more than 200 sculptures in bronze, granite and wrought iron. The park can be divided into 5 main units that are located along the 850-metre-long main axis: The main gate, the bridge with the children's playground, the fountain, the monolith plateau and the wheel of life. Norway's most famous boy, the angry boy, is located in the middle of the bridge together with more than 50 bronze sculptures where the artist wanted to display mainly young people and show the relationship between men and women.
The fountain is surrounded by 20 trees with sculptures that show the four stages of life: childhood, adulthood, parenthood and old people. The last tree contains a skeleton as a symbol of death, and also to show that man becomes nature after he dies. 36 sculptural groups reside on the monolith plateau around the main section of the park: an impressive monolith at almost 18 metres high, carved from one single granite block. It displays 121 figures and might be understood as an interpretation of man's longing and yearning for the spiritual and divine. The carving of this monolith took over 14 years, and involved work by the artist himself as well as 3 other stone carvers.
The Wheel of Life, positioned at the very end of the 850-metre axis, continues thematically the journey-of-life motif prevalent in the rest of the park. It represents eternity, with four human figures and a baby locked in a circle, floating in harmony.
Vigeland and Munch: Artistic Rivals
Gustav Vigeland (1869–1943) donated all his works, including his future works, to the city of Oslo. In return, the city gave him the park and a studio that he could live and work in. The studio is the Gustav Vigeland Museum today, where guests can see more of Vigeland's works and learn about how the park developed throughout time.
It took quite a while to complete the park. They started out in the 1920s, and the park was sadly not completed before Vigeland's death in 1943. Fortunately, the final result we see today is true to the way Vigeland visualised it.
The main theme in the park is the circle of life. This is also the reason why Vigeland displayed all the sculptures, except the one of himself, without clothes. He wanted them to be timeless. Today, we can easily identify with the sculptures that look just like we do today, instead of resembling people from the distant 1920s or 1930s.
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) and Gustav Vigeland lived at the same time, but were rivals rather than friends. As young artists, they both lived in Berlin and even shared the same hotel address at one point. Even though they respected each other as artists, they were never close. Munch even accused Vigeland of stealing his main idea: While Vigeland devoted his park to the circle of life, Munch's main project was the frieze of life.
The Echo Point near the Monolith
The ground around the fountain is surrounded by an 1800 square metre mosaic in black and white granite. The geometrical pattern shapes an almost 3000-metre-long labyrinth. Vigeland's intention was to show all the blind alleys and difficult roads human beings have to go through in their lives. Perhaps Vigeland also wanted to let us know the following: "You can find the right way out of life's labyrinth with patience."
Iori Roberts, a professional guide from Oslo Guidebureau about the echo:
How to get to Vigeland Park:
The Vigeland park is part of the even larger Frogner park, and can easily be reached with buses, trams and the metro.
Tram stop: Vigelands park, takes you directly there.
Bus stop: Vigelands park.
Metro stop: Majorstuen, with just a 10-minute walk down Kirkeveien.
If you wish to learn more about Oslo, book a professional guide at Oslo Guidebureau:
Phone: +4722422818 / Mail: info@osloguide.no
Text: Stefanie Tuma / Photos&Videos: Dina Johnsen
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Sangyup Park 29 August, 2016
I was there Septem. 2010. Looking back the journey, good implession on this park where i saw what the life is all about especially who are the woman...
want to be there again, very peaceful & makes people be think over their life..i like Norway and Oslo, all around Scandinavians North europe
admin 29 August, 2016
So nice to know that, Sangyup! Thank you?
admin 8 September, 2016
Wonderful, Sangyup! We see you here again :)
Fabie59 10 September, 2016
Nous l'avons visité en 2011. Incroyable parc de sculptures !!! Juste très beau !!!
Merci!!! ❤
CrisDattoli 10 September, 2016
Wonderful, I visited this park in august 1996! Thanks
Wow, that was some time ago, Cris)). Oslo changed since then)
Barbara pollock 2 May, 2017
I am in the process of sorting all my memorabilia collected along my journey of life..
Have just found a pamphlet of vigeland park and memories of this beautiful work came flooding back to me.
I visited in 1969!
One of my special memories,
Passing the booklet on to a young lady who sculpts and I know she will enjoy!!
John Wick 17 May, 2017
Just visited the park three days ago. Very good experience. The sculptures are impressive and the sheer size of the monolith is incredible.


The students return after the holidays, but who is Jerome avoiding and why? Amber is regretting agreeing to be Alfie's girlfriend. Sibuna has a midnight feast in the attic and are soon joined Von the rest of the residents in Anubis house. Amber finds a dollhouse that is an exact replica of Anubis house. They get caught Von Victor and everyone files down the stairs and back into their bedrooms, but Nina is determined to look for a new hiding place for the Cup of Ankh. Victor finds her as soon as she puts it into the secret door. He startles Nina, causing her to knock a box off the table. As Nina goes downstairs, she hears Victor pick up the old doll that she knocked over. It recites a riddle about a book of old, water of life, and tears of gold. She tells Fabian all about it and they agree to check out an abandoned bibliothek for the book of old that the riddle mentioned. When they do so later that day, they find Mr. Sweet and Victor already in there. They hide behind a bookshelf and hear them talking about the Book of Isis and where it might be hidden. Fabian knocks something off the shelf and the episode ends with Victor pulling the sheet off it, leaving him to find them.
Nina's grandmother comes to visit the house. A seventh grader blackmails Jerome. Alfie tries get Amber to be his girlfriend Von giving her himbeere cupcakes, but Amber is allergic to himbeere and develops a blotchy face. Meanwhile, Nina has a dream inspired Von Victor's riddle, which she has overheard. A malignant spirit emerges from the cup. Sibuna finds out who is blackmailing Jerome, and Victor is convinced that he will find the Book of Isis in a traveling Egyptian artifacts exhibition. Nina hears some noises and goes up to the attic to examine. She takes the cup out of the hiding place, and Senkhara comes out. The spirit tells Nina to find the Mask of Anubis before anyone else oder forfeit her life. Trudy cleans out the attic to prepare a guest room and throws out the dollhouse. Alfie saves it to give to Amber and passes Step 1 in Amber's dating book.
Mara is upset that Mick's family is moving. Alfie tries to impress Amber with one of his Fotos in a magazine cover and passes Step 2 in Amber's dating book. Fabian writes a poem for Nina, but Nina has something else on her mind. It is discovered that someone else might have found the path to the Mask of Anubis. There is a replica of the Mask of Anubis in the exhibition, so Nina and Fabian go check it out. Jerome's sister, Poppy, reads her father's letter to Jerome. Meanwhile, Fabian's attempt to read Nina his poem fails, and Nina has another terrifying dream.
Senkhara leaves her mark on Nina, and Fabian's godfather, Jasper, advises her about the mark and the Mask, which he believes to be a myth. Jerome finds Fabian's poem to Nina. The dollhouse begins to communicate with Nina, and Nina thinks that the Mask is in the house. Nina starts to become jealous of Fabian and Joy spending time with each other. Alfie passes Step 3 in Amber's dating book, and Amber tells him that they need to have a trial datum before they are officially "together". Mara decides that she needs to make Mick break up with her so that he can go to a sports school in Australia. Mara takes Patricia's implicit Guter Rat and acts nerdy around him. The plan fails, making Mick like Mara even Mehr than before. Later on, the dollhouse opens a hidden compartment to reveal a map. mohn researches her father and discovers some interesting information. That night, Senkhara marks Fabian as well.
Fabian decides to keep the mark secret from Nina. The map leads Nina to think that the mask is hidden in the house. As Fabian and Alfie set up a picnic for their double-date with Nina and Amber, respectively, Alfie keeps saying that he wants to give Amber the best so that she does not "put him on the bench". When Nina and Fabian are in the cellar, Nina tries to discuss with Fabian how Amber keeps saying they were best Friends before and still are, instead of being boyfriend and girlfriend. Fabian thinks Nina is trying to say that they should break up. The two mutually decide to break up. Amber saves Nina and Fabian from Victor when they are caught in the cellar. Mara finds tickets to Australia in Mick's locker and believes that Mick will break up with her and leave. She finds out later that Mick's dad had sent him the tickets as part of the bribe. To make his decision easy for him, Mara breaks up with him. Joy reads Fabian's poem since Jerome put it on her clipboard after finding it, and she believes that it is for her. As Joy hugs Fabian after what she thought was help in the opening speech, Nina sees the jackal mark on Fabian's arm. Because Fabian sagte that he did not have any mark to Nina earlier, she becomes mad at him. Amber agrees to be Alfie's girlfriend without posing any Mehr tests. Meanwhile, mohn sets out to look for her father when Jerome does not want to be involved in the investigation.
Sibuna finds an antechamber and several amulets. Mara is still upset about Mick while Jerome creates trouble between Mara and Mick. Mick prepares to leave for good. Everyone throws Mick a surprise party, but Mara decides not to go. Jerome decides to hire a private investigator to find his father. Mara finally decides to say goodbye to Mick. Nina, Fabian, and Amber go back to the antechamber to investigate further. Amber pulls a book and finds a tunnel behind the antechamber bookshelf Von doing so.
Amber is temporarily blinded Von a strange beacon that is apparently a trap. Nina and Fabian discover the only thing that can protect them from the beacon: the amulets. Nina and Fabian explore the first task, set Von Sarah's father, Robert Frobisher-Smythe, in the tunnels. The answer lies in some old tomes, but one is missing. Jerome reads a letter to his mum from his father and makes a shocking discovery. Anubis House is assigned a new housemother, named Vera, and she appears to be Mehr suspicious than anyone.
A new boy, Eddie, arrives and instantly makes an enemy in Patricia. Amber surprises Nina Von finding something that Nina has been looking for. While Jerome plans to scam some money out of his classmates, Vera, the new house mother, and Jasper have a secret meeting. Eddie causes trouble at Jerome's fundraiser, and things become worse when Mara figures out that the entire fundraiser is a scam. That night, Senkhara invades Amber's dreams and attempts to mark her as well.
Note: This episode marks the first appearance of Burkely Duffield.
Nina and Fabian puzzle over the mysterious cube that they have found in the tunnels, but it falls into the wrong hands. Soon, Jasper steals it for the Collector, his apparent patron. Nina figures out how to make the mysterious cube into a key to unlock the first door in the tunnels and soon, Sibuna faces their Weiter task: a deadly endeavor that involves potentially fatal traps.
Sibuna's Weiter task is a deadly Egyptian version of hopscotch. If the sequence is not correct on the first try, the ceiling descends to crush everything in its path and keep the mask hidden from the world until the end of time. Meanwhile, Jerome is desperate to clear his debt after his charity scam fails. He starts selling masks and dresses for the dance. Unfortunately, he sets himself up to be ostracized Von selling Nina, Joy, and Mrs. Andrews the same dress. Sibuna figures out the correct sequence to safely kreuz the deadly hopscotch. In a dream at the end, during the dance, Fabian and Nina share a kiss. Nina hears Senkhara calling and follows, but is she walking into a trap?
The Tag of the dance has arrived. Amber, Nina, and Fabian had the same dream involving Senkhara pushing Nina into the chasm the night before. Vera and Trudy have a bake-off during the dance. Mrs. Andrews finds a receipt near Vera's cake and suspects she may have bought it. Meanwhile, down in the tunnels, Amber, Nina and Fabian attempt the deadly hopscotch challenge on the night of the ball. The three complete the hopscotch challenge, but there is a bigger test to come. Eddie gets Patricia into trouble over the Musik and then saves the day. Nina and Fabian are alarmed to see that their dream from the night before is coming true.
The Collector intimidates Jasper into giving him the key to the exhibit, but Trudy finds out and becomes suspicious. The Collector creeps into the bibliothek to examine the Exhibition, leading to a close shave for both Nina and Victor. Jerome and Alfie bet Eddie that he cannot convince Patricia to dance, and Eddie wins. Nina figures out how to kreuz the chasm, but when she runs to tell Fabian, she sees Joy Küssen him. Upset, she flees to the tunnels while Jerome reads the letter that his father has sent to him and his sister from prison. Nina is angry with Fabian, but she shows him and Amber the krokodil beam, which they need to use to bridge the chasm. However, the quest becomes even Mehr dangerous because Victor is now closer than ever to discovering the tunnels.
Jerome finds out that his dad wants him to visit in prison. Patricia softens her attitude towards Eddie and then finds out about his bet. Joy and Mara sign up for the school website. Amber and Fabian enlist Patricia and Alfie to help them fit the bridge across the chasm, but it almost falls in. Sibuna practices laying the beam, and Victor finds the lock in the cellar. Alfie fails to dump Amber while Patricia plans her revenge on Eddie. Jerome and Mara visit his father while Sibuna encounters a new danger at the chasm.
Victor and Vera hide in the cellar and see Nina exiting. Thus, the antechamber code is revealed. While Sibuna practices dodging pendulums, Patricia's revenge on Eddie backfires. As Sibuna enters the antechamber, they are shocked to find Victor standing there. Victor has been blinded Von the beacon flash, though, and Sibuna only just manages to avoid him. mohn finds out that her father wants to arrange a prison visit and that Jerome did not tell her. Sibuna crosses the chasm but then finds a dead end. Senkhara becomes angry at Nina and gives the mark to Amber, Patricia, and Alfie as well in vengeance. Vera is portrayed as being the Collector because the Collector sent the same message Vera sent to Jasper.
Victor's sight returns in time for him to find an important passage on the Mask of Anubis. Jerome goes to visit his father, but he finds that mohn has beaten him to it. Sibuna finds a crawl tunnel, and it is implied that it could that be the only way through to the Weiter task. When Alfie enters it, it collapses, trapping him. Amber tries to rescue Alfie from the crawl tunnel; however, she fails, and Fabian has to save both of them. Later, Amber and Alfie break up. Victor spots the amulet around Amber's neck and confiscates all pupils' jewellery Von invoking an obscure school rule. Now, the tunnels are his to explore.
Victor hits a dead end in the tunnels. When Victor returns from the tunnels, Vera gives the Book of Isis, which she had found in the schreibtisch located within Robert Frobisher-Smithe's study, to Victor. However, she steals the most important chapter from the book first. Sibuna tries to exhaust Victor Von keeping him awake all night. He falls into a deep sleep so they can steal the amulets from him. Jerome looks for his dad's gem but fails to find it. While Nina and Fabian try to take the amulets off Victor, he nearly awakes from the sound of Nina cutting the amulets off him.
Note: The episode House of Isis was called House of Barriers in the ending credits.
Jerome informs Mara of his father's mission and tells her that his dad wants him to find a special gem in a suit of armor. When Nina enters the tunnel, she finds a lever and pulls it to open the Weiter door in the tunnels. Back Von the entrance, the Wand folds in on itself and leads deeper into the tunnels. The kids arrive at their Weiter challenge: a giant spinne web. While searching the kids' rooms, Vera gets a hold of the extra amulet hidden in the dollhouse. While Nina, Fabian, Alfie, and Amber are down in the tunnels, Eddie and Patricia perform chores for Victor. Mara tells Jerome that the armor is hidden in Mr. Sweet's office. Jerome inadvertently convinces Alfie to create a distraction to lure Mr. Sweet out of his office Von letting a gans through the hallway. While searching for the gem, Jerome accidentally causes the armor to fall and hears Mr. Sweet coming back to his office.
Alfie's gans is led into Mr. Sweet's office, and it swallows the gem. Victor decides to forge a fake amulet so that when the kids look to find the extra amulet, they will not realize that Victor stahl, stola it. Trudy tells Mrs. Andrews her concerns about Vera. Eddie and Patricia run off to play American football, and Patrica loses her amulet. Joy asks Fabian to go on a date, but he does not give a definitive answer. Victor calls everyone inside to check the house after a suspicious pet Essen package arrives in the mail. Victor puts the fake amulet inside the dollhouse. Patricia realizes her amulet is missing and goes to look for it. While she has no luck, someone finds the amulet and takes it.
Mrs. Andrews asks Mara to investigate Vera for a "profile" on the website. Jerome is delighted when the gans passes the gem, until Mara drops it down the sink. Patricia wears the fake amulet to the tunnels, and she is blinded. The others go ahead into the tunnels without her. Patricia hears someone coming into the tunnels and blindly searches for Sibuna. As Sibuna explores the spinne web task, Patricia arrives to warn them that someone is coming. As they hide, Victor reaches the web and is stung Von the web. Mr. Sweet tells Mara that Jasper was the one who secured Vera's job.
Jerome may have Lost the gem, but he now has Patricia's amulet, thanks to Poppy. Nina and Fabian steal the gem from Vera's room and trade with Jerome to secure the amulet. Later, Nina sees a riddle in the dollhouse telling her to follow the "silver thread of fate." Jerome has the gem, but he faces another complication: the shield is missing. Meanwhile, Eddie overhears Patricia telling Joy that she likes him. Mara investigates Vera's room for information, but Vera comes inside and she threatens Mara who now fears Vera. Mara also stumbles upon the missing chapter of the Book of Isis, which then finds its way into Victor's hands. And Sibuna discovers a sinister clue to the spinne web task, including a new riddle and a giant lifelike spider.
Victor is translating the Book of Isis, but it is not as easy as he had hoped. Eddie tries to get Patricia to admit that she likes him. Fabian and Joy go to a movie. Nina is hurt Von Fabian's action and decides that they should go to the tunnels to solve the spinne web task without Fabian, but it is a decision that she will regret after Alfie's life is put in danger. Eddie and Patricia misbehave in class, but it is Patricia who Mr. Sweet punishes. Alfie and Jerome realize that if Jerome wants the shield in which the gem belongs, he will have to win it back from a rival school. Meanwhile, Mara figures out that Vera's resume is all lies, and Nina learns Senkhara's name. Sibuna finally passes the spinne web task, opening a door, which then starts to close. As it closes, Nina walks inside, knowing that this is the only chance she has to get closer to finding the mask.
As Mara gathers evidence against Vera, Sibuna completes the web task after Fabian puts the larger spinne in its place. They Bewegen on to the Weiter task where they must follow the clues on the Wand and pick the right liquids and pour them into six different tubes on a lion's head, which will free the glue stuck to the door into the Weiter tunnel. Meanwhile, Victor realizes that the latest task is one that he can solve himself and takes the lead in the race for the mask. Jerome needs help to win back the Frobisher Shield, but he never expected for it to come from Amber, who has been a ping-pong champion in the past. Nina and Fabian see Victor with some chemicals and become suspicious. Patricia calls Eddie Mr Sweet's pet and best friend. After Patricia leaves, Eddie convinces Mara to Upload her Berichten exposing Vera on the school website.
Alfie is delighted when Jerome makes him ping pong coach. Vera is upset about Mara's article. Patricia's mocking causes Eddie to plan an epic prank on Mr. Sweet. In the tunnels, Victor completes the task and moves on to the Weiter task. Senkhara becomes furious and causes Nina's mark to burn. Mara and Vera go head to head in a hearing to establish the truth of Mara's claims. But Mara does not realise that her key witness is also Vera's. Fabian thinks that they have solved the potions task, but Nina is suspicious that Victor may have beaten them to it. Eddie's prank on Mr. Sweet backfires on Mara, and she is expelled.
A shocked Mara is expelled, while Jerome fires "Coach" Alfie. Vera has secretly bribed her witness - and Trudy is still suspicious. Mara doesn't get expelled but can't work for the website anymore and Mrs. Andrews takes the punishment and leaves the school. Patricia learns a huge secret about Eddie and Nina gets some bad news about Gran... Jerome's tournament goes badly - will he fail his dad? As Victor is getting ahead, Senkhara is getting angrier. She yells at Nina for visiting Gran instead of working through the tunnels. Nina gets upset and says that Senkhara doesn't exist and walks through her. Senkhara then tells Nina her punishment "will be to punish." The Weiter day, Nina's innocent words to her Friends are twisted Von Senkhara into hexes. Nina gets a vision about herself turning into Senkhara and the Sibuna gang is running away from her.
The Dollhouse tells the Sibunas the tune for the task: an ancient Egyptian song called the Song of Hathor. But no one still alive has heard it... Meanwhile, Amber agrees to be the face of the school in a new commercial - despite aging in fast vorwärts-, nach vorn - and Mara hears that Mick has a new girlfriend and decides to make him jealous Von pretending to datum Jerome. The Sibunas are shocked as Alfie's rejuvenation curse accelerates and turns him into a 7 Jahr old. Meanwhile, Patricia gets stuck in the bathroom and accidentally stands Eddie up. Nina finds out that Victor has some information about the Song of Hathor. Jerome's pretend relationship with Mara comes to an end and Victor and Vera hatch a plan to steal an exhibit from the Library, which Fabian overhears them discussing.
Note: Due to Alfie's curse from Senkhara, he was absent for over half the episode as he turned into a child.
Fabian is now unable to remember his own name - he even forgets who Nina is. Vera plants the ox glocke in his room, but hears Nina and Fabian coming so she hides in the closet. They find the ox glocke and take it to the tunnels, completing the task, curing them all. But their celebrations are short lived as Victor and Vera hatch their plan, leaving Nina and her Friends to walk into a trap. Victor and Vera's plan backfires, leaving the Sibunas to return the Ox glocke to the Library. Alfie, Fabian and Nina explore the Weiter task tunnel and realize that if they finish this task, they'll find the mask! Senkhara tells Nina that she has done well but she must not disobey her. Patricia has to admit to her Friends that she has been keeping a big secret, her twin sister Piper. Upstairs, Trudy gets closer to the truth about Vera. But has she gone too far?
Notes: Jade Ramsey's twin sister, Nikita Ramsey plays as Piper Williamson.
A riddle in the Weiter task hints that it is the final chamber before they reach the Mask. The Sibunas need to find six mysterious reflectors. The dollhouse shows the Puppen at Victor's office, so the Sibuna go and try to find a reflector... which they couldn't find. Eddie decides to KISS Patricia again, but actually kisses Piper instead! Victor overhears Nina and Fabian talking about the final task; he does have a reflector... his father's watch. And Trudy has been kidnapped! But she leaves a strange note for Jasper. Piper (as Patricia) acts kind to Alfie, since she has a crush on him, making Alfie fall in Liebe with Patricia not knowing that it's really Piper. Victor has the first of the reflectors and Nina and Amber work out that the Weiter one is in Sarah's Musik box. Jerome is worried when Jasper starts to obsess over the Gem. When Piper (as Patricia) is kind to Eddie, he starts to Frage his relationship with Patricia. Mr Sweet asks Eddie and Patricia to dinner. Strangely, Patricia accepts. She tells Piper to go as her and tells her that Mr. Sweet is Eddie's dad... which Joy overhears. Jasper takes the Gem and hides behind the stage when he hears Jerome coming. Jerome realizes that the Gem is missing and tells Mr. Sweet. Meanwhile, Jasper places a fake Gem back and hides. When Jerome comes back with Mr. Sweet, the Gem is back and Jerome is determined to find out who had tried to steal it.
Patricia feels that Piper is cramping her style. Eddie feels bad that he had kissed Piper accidentally, but Piper tells him it's best not to tell Patricia. Jerome learns from Jasper that Trudy has been kidnapped Von the Collector and he will need to find a Frobisher Smythe artifact to buy her back. Victor decides to invite Gustave for abendessen and Alfie decides to volunteer for the entertainment Von doing magic. The Sibunas discover a secret door in the task chamber - but will only open to a certain amulet... which happens to be Victor's. Alfie and Piper get closer, but an argument with Patricia makes Piper reconsider her future. Jerome's Suchen for Frobisher heirlooms leads him to Nina and Amber's room, where he finds Sarah's dollhouse. Gustave comes for dinner, and Alfie does his trick Von taking Victor's amulet and making it "disappear". After Alfie breaks the amulet into pieces, Victor decides that the real amulet is up his sleeves... which leads to Alfie dropping the other piece of cloth from his sleeve... will Sibuna get their amulet back?
The Sibunas are delighted when Alfie reveals Victor's amulet in one piece - all part of the trick. Then Nina realizes that someone had moved the dollhouse and decides to hide it. Piper says goodbye and gives Patricia her necklace. Eddie comes and sees Piper's halskette on Patricia and believes that she's Piper and tells "Piper" that he feels bad that he still didn't tell Patricia about their kiss. Patricia's devastated when Eddie lets slip that he kissed Piper. Jerome believes Vera has stolen the dollhouse and Nina and Fabian realize that Vera is after the mask. Joy pairs Eddie up with Mara to do a story on the revamped school website. Victor and Vera realize Alfie has tricked them and that he has the real amulet. The Sibuna gang opens up the secret door using Victor's amulet, leading them to the library. Fabian overhears Jerome and Jasper plotting something in the bibliothek and starts to think that Jasper might be an enemy. Patricia talks to Eddie in Mr. Sweet's office and accidentally turns on the loud speaker; she mentions that Eddie is Mr. Sweet's son and the entire school hears her.
Eddie thinks that Patricia on purposely pressed turned the speaker on to get revenge on Eddie. The race is on between Victor and the Sibunas to find the missing falke, falcon reflectors. Victor doesn't finds anything in Alfie's room. Jasper brushes Fabian off when he's confronted about his secret talks with Jerome and Fabian believes it. Nina finds another reflector in the kitchen: a goblet. Eddie's shocked when his Artikel research reveals a video image of Senkhara. He shows Mara and they start a ghost hunt, setting up cameras in the house. It does little to ease Patricia's jealousy. Nina realizes that Sarah's doll is a falke, falcon reflector, just as Jerome steals it for Jasper. Jasper accidentally tells Jerome where he's meeting the collector and Jerome decides to follow. Hiding, Jerome sees Vera and another man with her. The Collector doesn't want the doll and throws it on the ground but then, Jerome moves making a sound and Vera comes over and tries to see if Jasper had brought anyone with him... will she find Jerome?
After Jasper rips off the Collector's hood, Jerome learns that Rufus is back! The Sibunas learn that Eddie had backup files on a USB drive, even though they tried to infect the picture files on his computer, so Nina dispatches her Friends on different missions; Fabian has to try and convince Joy not to run the story, Patricia must apologize to Eddie, and Amber and Alfie must steal Eddie's camera. Jerome and Jasper follow Rufus and Jerome tells Jasper who he is, and they fall back. Vera finds another reflector; a piece of stained-glass from the window in her room; Joy agrees not to run the story, on the condition that Fabian kisses her, Nina overhears it and is dismayed until Fabian tells Joy he can't do it and reveals his true feelings for Nina, but Joy decides not to run the story anyway; Eddie reconciles with Patricia. Alfie and Amber steal Eddie's camera and learn that Jerome stahl, stola the dollhouse and the two confront him. He then reveals Rufus is alive and that he his blackmailing Jasper with the threat of harming Fabian and Vera is working for him and they find out she is a double-agent; the Sibunas and Jerome try to tell Victor this but he doesn't believe them. Amber and Patricia then overhear that Victor has three reflectors and Vera overhears that the Sibunas have the remaining three. Rufus then visits Trudy and interrogates her about the dollhouse, but when she doesn't give enough information, he tells her he no longer needs her, much to Trudy's dismay.
When a poisonous Artikel about Nina appears on the school website, speculation is rife about the identity of the school's phantom blogger. In order to save Vera, Victor hatches a plan and leaves his reflectors in his office, knowing that Sibuna will snoop around and find them when he goes out. The gang succeeds in finding the objects, and Fabian also finds Victor's completed zodiac, along with a Liste of where he believes the remaining reflectors are. Alfie and Amber go into the attic to retrieve the reflector from the stained glass window but, unaware that Vera is still catatonic nearby (concealed beneath a blanket Von Victor), they accidentally reveal the existence of the passage between the tunnels and the library. Meanwhile, Mara knows that Jack Jackal did not write the hateful blog on NIna, as she herself is Jack Jackal. After prodding Joy for information, Joy hesitantly admits that she wrote the blog. Vera now bears the mark of Anubis and the Sibunas have all the reflectors, but they run out of time and the reflector stands disappear. What will they do now? Fabian finds out that Joy wrote the Artikel and gets mad. Gran's condition deteriorates and Fabian makes a horrific discovery at the hospital: Gran is the time piece and she has the mark of anubis.
Joy tries to apologize to Nina, who is upset over Gran being cursed, but the gang isn't having it and they freeze Joy out. Sibuna realizes that in order to complete the task, they will have to borrow a "Sibuna temp" to hold the sixth reflector, so Patricia hatches a plan to bring a blindfolded Eddie into the tunnels under the pretense of a "date." Sibuna and the oblivious Eddie manage to complete the task and enter the final chamber. However, the Mask is nowhere to be found and Fabian determines that in order to pass on, they must play the ancient game of Senet. Jerome is suspicious of Jack Jackal's latest Artikel about a father-son relationship, and confronts Joy about it. Joy allows Jerome to think that she wrote the article, and that she knows Jerome's personal information regarding his father because Mara told her. However, after a hurt Jerome confronts Mara about it, the truth is revealed. Mr. Sweet permits Mara to write for the blog once Mehr and Jerome and Eddie reveal to all their classmates that Joy wrote the hateful Artikel about Nina. Rufus discovers he has a phony mask and threatens Vera to get him the real one.
The Sibunas realize they must play the ancient Egyptian game of Senet - and the stakes are high. Joy is still getting a hard time because of Mara, so when Mr Sweet tells her to enter Mara in the blog competition, Joy makes other plans. Trudy is having strange dreams - could her memory be returning? Victor and Vera secretly practice Senet in his office, while the Sibunas meet Jasper who tells them Rufus knows he's been tricked, and he does it soon after the Sibunas find the rules on a mismatched tile on the bibliothek floor. Jerome finally makes his Bewegen on Mara, only to discover she's still not over Mick. Down in the tunnels, disaster strikes when Nina moves to the wrong square and the floor gives way beneath her.
The Sibunas are reeling at Nina's disappearance and must cover for her both at school and to a suspicious Victor and Vera at home, as well as keeping a furious Senkhara at bay. Joy enters her Artikel into the contest, but Mara thinks that her Artikel was entered. Eddie knows that Joy had lied to Mara and tells Jerome. Nina wakes to find herself in an underground cell, and she is not alone... A distressed Fabian goes to tell Mr Sweet everything, but then while Mr Sweet isn't in the office, he hears Nina calling from underneath realising that Nina is still alive. Patricia tries to be Mehr couply with boyfriend Eddie, which only serves to alarm him. Nina sees Victor Rodenmark Sr.'s ghost. Under pressure, Fabian makes a wrong Bewegen at Senet and things look even worse for the Sibunas.
Joy realises that Trudy's doctor was Rufus. Mara's confused - does she have feelings for Jerome? Vera follows the doctor's instructions to try and control the Sibunas, not knowing that they are playing along in order to find out how much Victor knows about Senet. But their plan fails when there's trouble in store for Alfie, and Victor... Jerome knows he's in trouble when he runs into Rufus sneaking around Anubis house. Alfie falls through the floor and meets up with Nina. Rufus kidnaps Jerome and no one knows where he is. Victor is horrified at losing Alfie on the Senet board and blames Vera for suggesting they use the students as pawns. Amber thinks her and Alfie should get back together again. Senkhara hunts for the Osirian, visiting both Eddie and Fabian in the night.
Eddie and Fabian have the same weird dream. Victor Sr. tells Nina to beware Senkhara and leaves for good. Mara wins blogger of the year, but is becoming too concerned about Jerome's disappearance to celebrate. Eddie is frustrated about Patricia's secret Sibuna life and disaster strikes the gang when Fabian and Joy disagree over how to finish the Task... Can Fabian learn to trust Joy? He will need to if they are to finish the Task. Meanwhile, Eddie remembers the name of Jerome's "uncle" - but he doesn't understand why Patricia is so alarmed. Victor is beginning to wonder if the kids were right about Vera and he makes a shocking discovery in her room. Senkhara is getting upset that Joy and Fabian had chosen to save Nina and her Friends instead of the key to the mask. Will she hurt Gran, Sibuna, oder even Nina?
Eddie helps Mara to see how much Jerome means to her. But there's an even bigger surprise in store for her. Mick has come to visit to talk things out, making Mara very anxious because of her new found and complicated relationship with Jerome. Meanwhile, Victor confronts Vera and Patricia tells the Sibunas that Rufus has taken Jerome. Fabian, Patricia and Alfie go to rescue him, while Amber, Nina, and Joy try to find a spare key to the Mask in the Frobisher library. As Victor grapples with the final clue in the Book of Isis, Eddie gets himself into big trouble after following the Sibuna's to the barn. Nina, Joy, and Amber find the key to the Mask in the secret drawer that was supposed to hold the Book of Isis. Fabian, Patricia and Alfie find out what Rufus really wants the Mask for; to go into the afterlife as a God. mohn needs Jerome like never before for their Dad's hearing, but back at the barn, Rufus has driven off with him. When the Sibuna's go to try and save him, he has been replaced Von Eddie! Nina finally unlocks the Mask and learns the terrible truth of Senkhara's plan; if Nina wears the mask, Senkhara will take her body and become a Goddess, leaving both of them to live and rule in the afterlife forever. Frobisher Smythe's final trick is revealed; the Mask in the tunnels is not the real one. Senkhara tells Nina to get the true Mask oder pay the price. Victor has now figured out the last clue in the Book of Isis. He realizes that the Mask in the tunnels doesn't have its third eye. But Rufus is circling closer to the Mask in the tunnels, as is Victor! It's a race against time for find the true Mask. Meanwhile, at Jerome's dad's hearing, Mara and mohn wish Jerome hadn't disappeared. Unlike Mick, who still believes that he's the careless joker he knew before he left. Over at the house, Eddie begins to act strangely. He begins to hear voices whispering "Chosen One" and "Osirian". When he picks up Jerome's gem that he had gegeben him, it glows hot in is hand. He then hears Mehr voices that say "Chosen One - find Nina". He runs off to the Frobisher library, now desperate to find her. Senkhara is close to getting what she has longed for as the Sibuna's find the true Mask in the exhibition. Eddie runs in to the bibliothek with the Gem and Nina realizes that he is the Osirian. She takes the Gem from him and puts it in the Mask. She puts it on as it cries Tears of Gold. Senkhara then possesses Nina's body and she starts to walk towards the portal to the afterlife. She tries to throw a lighting bolt at Fabian, but Joy pushes him out of the way, leaving her to get hit and pass out on the ground. Eddie takes action and gets Senkhara's diadem that was displayed in the exhibition. He points it at Nina and knows exactly what to say, banishing Senkhara from Nina's body. Rufus will not give up as he takes the Mask from Nina. As he puts it on and Senkhara goes into him and a fiery portal opens up to the Egyptian underworld. He falls in along with Senkhara. The Mask is left on the ground. Rufus an Senkhara are gone, but Joy is still unconscious on the ground, her face gray. Fabian and the others are scared as they cannot find a pulse. Nina spots the Mask on the ground with one last Tear of Gold on it. She gives it to Victor who puts it up to Joy's mouth. The color returns to her face and as she coughs. Everyone around her is sighing in relief. The Sibuna's then realize that their marks are gone. Alfie takes the Gem out of the Mask and is ready to give it back to Jerome, who has unknowingly already gone back to the house. Amber and Alfie talk about their relationship, but Alfie states that he may have certain conditions for him to be able to datum her (matching monster masks). After almost everyone has left, Victor explains to Nina that only the pure of herz can enter the afterlife and become a God. Nina gives him the ring that his father's ghost had gegeben her. Back at the house, the end of exhibition party is taking place. Mara seems upset with Jerome for missing his dad's hearing, when Alfie comes in to give him the Gem. She then forgives him for missing it as Alfie made it seem like Jerome was looking for the Gem all along. His dad and mohn then Zeigen up and announce that they won their case at the hearing. Jerome then asks Mara out and she says yes. The two of them share a KISS as Mick watches, disappointed. Meanwhile, Eddie talks to his dad about the Osirian. Mr. Sweet says that he will tell him all about it, but not there. Patricia comes and takes Eddie over to the 'dance floor'. Fabian sees Nina's gran, so he goes to talk to her. She points to Nina at the oben, nach oben of the staircase. Once Amber gets them alone the two dance and share a KISS making them get back together. Back in Victor's office Victor finds the last Tear of Gold in his father's ring, ending the season two finale.
Last appearance of Nathalia Ramos as the main character Nina Martin , Roger Barclay as Rufus Zeno and, Bobby Lockwood as Mick Campbell as main cast.
Author's note 2: Ahh, this took me 5 days to finish! I didn't copy and paste from Wikipedia, instead I typed all! It took me ages to finish this!


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Industrial plastic and disused scaffolding netting aren't the first materials you would consider using in high-end, high-quality interiors. But that's exactly what textile artist Jo Hague from Lostwithiel uses in her large-scale art installations.
"While walking on the beach on the Isles of Scilly, I came across some geo textile matting that is normally used to prevent coastal erosion. As soon as I touched it, I knew I could do something with it once it had fulfilled its primary function and that's what started my journey into repurposing and reusing industrial materials that would otherwise go into our oceans, landfill or incineration."
After 25 years working as a health and social care trainer, Jo decided to follow the dream she had wanted to pursue since the age of 18 and completed a three-year textile degree at Falmouth University.
Upon graduating in 2019, she set up a studio at home and was spotted almost immediately by an interior design shop in London for one of her large-scale installations. She was then invited to showcase her work at an exclusive exhibition to be held at Bedruthan Hotel.
"I was just at the point where I was ready to launch my business; I had invested a lot of time and money and created numerous pieces when the COVID-19 crisis hit and the whole country went into lockdown. My exhibition was postponed indefinitely, and I was left feeling really disheartened, like my whole business dream was being swept from under me."
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Masks vs. No-Masks: Is This The New Symbol of Tribalism?
Masks have become a symbol of which "side" you're on in the coronavirus debate in the United States and for some folks, whether you choose to wear one or not says a lot about you.
If you don't wear a mask, you're seen as a callous brute who doesn't care whether you spread your germs and kill grandma. If you do wear a mask, you're seen as a quivering sheep, someone who has been willingly muted by the government.
Rationally, we know there's a lot more to it than that, however, rational thinking is rarely at the forefront when tempers are flaring. Whether or not you choose to wear a mask is an incredibly visible sign that many will read as an alliance to one "side" or the other. It's becoming almost tribal. It's like the Bloods and the Crips of suburbia getting ready to throw down at Trader Joe's.
The Mask Wearers
There are a lot of folks who come down on the side of wearing a mask. Why? Most of them say it's to protect others from them in case they're unwittingly carrying and spreading the virus. Asymptomatic COVID is a mystery. Scientists have said anywhere between 5% and 80% of carriers are asymptomatic, which really tells us nothing except, maybe you are, maybe you aren't.
The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University summed it up after assembling the data from 21 reports:
What did we learn (see the table for the analysis)
That between 5% and 80% of people testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 may be asymptomatic
That symptom-based screening will miss cases, perhaps a lot of them
That some asymptomatic cases will become symptomatic over the next week (sometimes known as "pre-symptomatics")
That children and young adults can be asymptomatic
We also learnt that there is not a single reliable study to determine the number of asymptotics. It is likely we will only learn the true extent once population based antibody testing is undertaken. (source)
So with that in mind, the case for mask-wearing does carry some weight.
However, it also depends on what kind of mask you're wearing whether or not the protection is present. Everyone knows that N95 and N99 masks are nearly impossible to find and most want to leave those for healthcare workers anyway. The data regarding the cloth masks that most people are wearing doesn't really support their use. But again, we don't have very much data, so it's not a definitive answer. The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reports:
Limited, indirect evidence from lab studies suggests that homemade fabric masks may capture large respiratory droplets, but there is no evidence they impede the transmission of aerosols implicated in the spread of COVID-19, according to a paper published yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (source)
So while science does not dispute the wearing of cloth masks, science doesn't back it up, either.
Those Who Won't Wear Masks
On the other side of the debate we have those who refuse to wear masks. Some folks won't do business in stores that require them. Others try to enter the establishments that require masks without adhering to the requests. Others just stay at home because they refuse to comply.
Why won't they wear masks? Some of it goes back to the Surgeon General's early recommendation that masks were not helpful in stopping the spread of the coronavirus. Many people chalked this up to an attempt to save the few high-quality masks that were available to healthcare workers while others took it as the Gospel. However, Surgeon General Adams seems to have walked this back and has since demonstrated on video how to make your own face mask.
There are a couple of other reasons, too. First, many feel based on the information above that the masks are not effective. If they don't work, why should they go through the discomfort and for some, the difficulty breathing that mask-wearing brings?
Some see it as a symbol of weakness.
To some, wearing a mask means admitting a fear they may not have consciously confronted yet, said David Abrams, a clinical psychologist and professor of social and behavioral science at New York University's School of Global Public Health.
Many view the mask as a walking symbol of vulnerability that tells others you're scared about contracting the virus. So to compensate for that fear, and as a show of strength, they may reject the masks entirely, he said. (source)
For others, it's a matter of liberty. They feel that wearing a mask is a symbol of bowing down to tyranny or a symbol that the wearer has been silenced.
Even though wearing masks isn't compulsory in much of the US, adhering to these rules may feel like, to some, a forfeiture of their freedoms.
People naturally rebel when they're told what to do, even if the measures could protect them, said Steven Taylor, a clinical psychologist and author of "The Psychology of Pandemics."
"People value their freedoms," he said. "They may become distressed or indignant or morally outraged when people are trying to encroach on their freedoms." (source)
That last reason shouldn't come as a surprise. Our nation was built on refusing to be told what to do.
There has already been violence over masks
People have already expressed their displeasure on both sides of this debate…sometimes violently.
Unfortunately, retail workers are often the ones bearing the brunt of the anger when they're simply trying to enforce the policies set forth by their employers. One of my daughters is a retail worker. She and her coworkers have been warned they'll be fired on the spot if they haven't followed the arbitrary guidelines of people standing on Xs and limiting the number of customers in the store. Officials from corporate headquarters have dropped in unbeknownst to employees to check that their measures are being enforced. She's definitely not alone and the risk of violence is high. But she – like many others – is just happy to still have a job.
Earlier this month, I wrote about three violent incidents that occurred when people refused demands that they wear a mask in certain establishments:
A physical fight erupted at a gas station in Decatur, Illinois when a customer refused to don a mask to pay for his fuel. Sgt. Brian Earles with Decatur Police spoke to the press about the incident. It seems that a 59-year-old customer got into a verbal altercation with a 56-year-old cashier when he was trying to pay for gasoline without a mask, as is mandated by the state of Illinois. The customer allegedly shoved the cashier, who said he felt threatened, and the cashier responded by punching the customer in the face. The customer was arrested and charged with battery over the incident.
In Holly Michigan, a Dollar Tree customer refused to follow the posted store policy of wearing a mask. When a young female employee approached him and let him know of the policy he responded by saying, "Here, I will just use this as a mask," and wiped his face on her sleeve. The customer continued to behave belligerently until he left. The entire incident was caught on store surveillance.
At a Family Dollar store in Flint, Michigan, the most violent response yet occurred when Calvin Munerlyn, a security guard for the store, was shot and killed after he refused to allow a customer's daughter to come into the store without a mask. (source)
And the violence is not one-sided. In Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a fight broke out when someone coughed in a parking lot.
A 53-year-old man confronted a motorist who reportedly coughed without covering his mouth in a convenience store parking lot. The argument sparked a physical confrontation, and the coughing man opened fire. No one was injured. Both men were arrested for assault. (source)
More than one woman has been violently assaulted because she chose to wear a mask:
An Asian woman wearing a mask was attacked by two men and called "diseased" in a subway station in New York City's Chinatown, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD). Four people were arrested in March in Hilton, New York, after they allegedly punched and taunted a woman for wearing a respirator mask in a store, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Department. (source)
In Vermont, people are snitching on members of their communities to publicly shame them for not wearing masks. [Grammatical errors are quoted directly from the source]
Some of the messages read like field reports: "The sidewalks between price chopper and walmart had groups of people standing together no mask or social distances."
Others like warnings: "I want to make you aware of the health crisis that is ongoing at the floating bridge in Brookfield. Since fish were stocked in the pond it's become a daily gathering spot of dozens of covid ignoring people."
Others are more inquisitive: "Picture below shows people at Roxie's in Bomoseen VT around 5 pm. I am the only one wearing a mask. Can u ask the Governor at his Monday press conference what citizens should do if they witness these blatant violations of his mandatory mask order?" (source)
Peter Erb, a Hinesburg, Vermont resident believes these attempts at citizen enforcement are dangerous.
Erb said it's also dangerous to have citizens enforcing the rules against each other — pointing to violent incidents in other states when citizens have attempted to enforce the rules. In Michigan, a security guard at a Family Dollar was shot and killed after he told a shopper to wear a mask. An order requiring people to wear masks in a city in Oklahoma was dialed back to a recommendation after a slew of threats of violence in the first hours the order was in place.
Erb said he worried the coronavirus compliance divide, played out nationally, could turn angry and politically partisan. He also pointed to a more personal experience.
"You know my wife got into a fairly contentious discussion in a grocery store when somebody wouldn't back off, had no mask and just wouldn't distance," he said. "And, you know, that's a fairly controlled situation, and, you know, in Hinesburg." (source)
Erb isn't wrong about this becoming a partisan topic, either.
Is this where the battle lines will be drawn?
This debate is somewhat, but not entirely, divided down partisan lines. It's notable that you will rarely see President Trump or Vice President Pence wearing one.
Here are the demographics of mask-wearing:
Whether Americans are embracing the change may depend on their political party. While most other protective measures like social distancing get broad bipartisan support, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say they're wearing a mask when leaving home, 76% to 59%, according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The split is clear across several demographics that lean Democratic. People with college degrees are more likely than those without to wear masks when leaving home, 78% to 63%. African Americans are more likely than either white people or Hispanic Americans to say they're wearing masks outside the home, 83% to 64% and 67%, respectively.
The notable exception is among older people, a group particularly vulnerable to serious illness from the virus. Some 79% of those age 60 and over were doing so compared with 63% of those younger. (source)
The issue now is that those with masks and those without masks are clearly members of a "team" or a "tribe." And a return to tribalism can be dangerous when paired with the many things that we've lost over the first half to 2020. We've lost loved ones, we've lost jobs, we've lost businesses, we've lost our incomes, and many are on the verge of losing homes and cars.
It isn't a stretch of the imagination to think that if violence were to erupt, people who feel the opposite way about masks could become targets of the outraged group. Outrage and the potential for civil unrest are things I've written about numerous times throughout this pandemic.
A person wearing or not wearing a mask is as clearly marked as somebody wearing a red bandana in the wrong neighborhood during a tense moment when people are butting heads during the mask debate. Is that really the hill you're prepared to die on, metaphorically speaking?
I'm not here to tell you whether or not you should wear a mask when you leave the house. I strongly believe we should be responsible for our own health and therefore make these choices ourselves. At the same time, I support the right for businesses to choose whether or not to serve people who refuse to wear masks. If you, as a customer, feel strongly about not wearing a mask, you should vote with your wallet and go to stores that don't require it. This is a purely libertarian point of view. It's about personal responsibility and the free market.
Personally, I keep a mask tucked into my purse and wear it if the establishment I'm visiting has a policy requiring it. If I had to visit a hospital or a friend with a health vulnerability, I'd wear a mask out of caution and courtesy. I do choose which grocery store I shop at based on the mask policy (I go to the store that doesn't have a mask policy) and I do not wear one unless it's required.
However, from a preparedness point of view, there's a different angle.
The gray angle.
If your goal is to blend in with the crowd and not be a person who draws the attention of others, then it's good to check the local baseline and see what other people are doing. In areas where the majority is wearing a mask, the gray thing to do would be to wear one too.
If you are in an area where nobody is wearing a mask, the gray thing would be to go along with that group with a caveat. If you are extremely concerned about your health or the health of a loved one, forget about the crowd and do what you think is right. Just don't try to force others to conform to what you think is right.
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