Hola! 
Thank you for this creative enterprise allowing free-wheeling conversations of various genera and
species of thought. I started a post reply on the mask blowback, but lost it somewhere, so I will just
briefly state that  1) I have not worn a mask in public at all, 2) civil disobedience is essential, and
3) where is the Brown Act in regards to secret meetings, given that some people are not able to
participate online due to no computer or internet access, part of the war on the poor, and on the
electro-sensitive. And please forgive my personal message, I thought I was addressing the rick in
arizona piano guy who posts on Rappoports' lyceum NMFN (no more fake news). Anyways, just
getting my feet wet on your interesting site. Thank you for your initiative and galvanic thoughts.
 

Okeh, Now, that makes sense...by the way, on Jon's  forum/lyceum, my nom de plume is yerba buena, as
that is a name of one of my favorite plants, a medicinal wild mint, also the original name of San Francisco,
because the plant grew all over there. I can affirm that individual people have the power to change things
on the city council/planning commission level, I spoke at a planning commission meeting thirty-odd years
ago to protest a developers' intent to tear down one house and build two in its place. Three of us in the
neighborhood spoke, and...we won, the two-for-one deal was turned down, Power to the people!
Maskless in Carmel, yay! Keep up the great work, you've got a great site here.