In 1962 I joined the Air Force and went to San Antonio for boot camp.  I learned a few things during that time that are still relevant.  The instructors told me I was welcome to believe anything I wanted, and to say anything I wanted so long as I was not in uniform.  Once I put on the uniform I gave up those rights because in uniform I represented the United States of America and anything I said or any action I took would be attributed to the United States.  Those are the rules that prevent military members from campaigning in uniform for any political party, candidate or cause. 

The point here, is you must consider how your actions will be perceived.  If you drive like an idiot in a Mercedes, the perception is all Mercedes drivers are idiots.   If you have a religious bumper sticker on the back of your car and you just cut someone off, all members of that religion are assholes. 

The NFL has sullied its reputation by not taking decisive action to stop the public disrespect to the flag of our country which can only be construed as disrespect to those who have fought to defend her.  I have waited to see them take action to stop this insult and although the people in charge of the teams and the league have not condoned this action, they have not stopped it either.  When you put on the uniform of a professional sports team, your actions reflect on that team.  Sporting events are supposed to be entertainment.  If a sport fails to separate itself from politics it is no longer entertainment.  Regretfully, I will no longer be supporting the NFL in any way, including watching the games on television.  

Last week, NASCAR decided to jump on the racial bandwagon in several ways including an insulting rendition of the National Anthem by someone who had apparently never heard it.  Then they dedicated race cars to the obviously racist BLM organization.  I've watched their races since the fifties and attended some of them, notably in Darlington and Daytona.  I won't be watching any more. 

If you agree with the stance of these organizations then by all means support them.  If not, consider voting with your pocketbook.  That is the American way.  

Three guests check into a hotel room. The manager says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the manager realizes the bill should only have been $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 as five one-dollar bills to return to the guests.
On the way to the guests' room to refund the money, the bellhop realizes that he cannot equally divide the five one-dollar bills among the three guests. As the guests aren't aware of the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 back and keep $2 as a tip for himself, and proceeds to do so.
As each guest got $1 back, each guest only paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop kept $2, which when added to the $27, comes to $29. So if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?

 Perhaps you are already aware of that story, it dates back to the 1930s at least.  How about this one:

In Florida during the Covid 19 outbreak 1,500,000 people have been tested for the virus.  In Jacksonville 75,000 have been tested.  Jacksonville is the third largest metropolitan area in Florida so we should have tested 1/3 as many people which would have been 500,000.  Obviously we aren't testing nearly enough people.

  The problem we face today is in large part the lack of understanding of mathematics on the part of the public at large as well as the news media who are trying to find something inflammatory to say.  

 

New Edit:  I realized belatedly that there are some people who didn't get this, so I am going to re-visit the issue and explain it.   The facts I list in the first two sentences and the first part of the third one in the story about Jacksonville are accurate.  The conclusion in the second half of the third sentence is just as ridiculous as the hotel story.  The fact that Jacksonville is the third largest metropolitan area has no bearing on the problem discussed.  Factually, it would have said that Jacksonville has about 4% of the population of Florida as a whole and therefore should have vaccinated 4% of 1,500,000 or 60,000 people.  We actually were well ahead of the state as a whole.