I guess I don't see how politics can become the focal point of a discussion about how to improve the glasses. I think it would be a lot easier to have a conversation about improving the glasses than government policy.
That's probably
because it wasn't. The only person who considered a brief mention of a political policy relevant to a news story tantamount to "a conversation" was
you.
Similarly, mentioning a Trojan Horse on my computers is not a history lesson and Madonna's "Vogue" is not a compendium about the golden age of Hollywood.
My link and brief mention of the Obamacare story was by no means the focus, but an ancillary point.
1. With the breaking of that story, Regal experienced some very negative backlash. The comments sections on those stories are filled with people mentioning their disgust at corporate greed, and refusal to ever set foot inside of a Regal. My goodness, the invective and rage was bountiful.
2. Mere week(s) later, the basic news story (which was first broken about 7 months prior in the first link of my post) was mysteriously everywhere. Even "I f-cking love science" on facebook, which usually focuses on scientific breakthroughs in labs rather than something commercially developed, shared the October story that peculiarly gained legs in May.
3. With either sleight of hand (if you're a bit cynical) or some fortuitous timing (if you're a bit naive), the damaging news story was replaced by the human interest, "Isn't that so wonderful" story in the papers, which likely mitigated whatever attendance loss the company suffered.
At no point do I
-connect any dots between Regal's development of the glasses and Obamacare provisions
-argue the merits/deficiencies of Obamacare
-so much as describe the provisions of Obamacare
I don't know about you, but when I'm having a conversation about a policy, at the very least, I
describe the policy. I'm having more of a conversation about the policy now than before, and I STILL haven't done any of those things. Because previously? I was talking about the craption glasses in a post that was largely about craption glasses in a thread that was largely about the craption glasses until someone imagined a political discussion that
Never.
Took. Place. And would really really really like to get back to the original topic
So in an attempt to return to topic, a germane question with the rambling sort of lead-in that I'm rather prone to ...
I personally am kinda terrified of conjunctivitis AKA pink eye. It was horrible enough as a child, and I can't imagine it's any better as an adult. So have any of you seen what kind of cleaning is done to the glasses when returned or before they're issued? Because shared eyewear=pink eye outbreak waiting to happen.