Solitary listener

rvpiano,
A good thread...
I fully understand what you're missing. When I was in my late teens through my mid twenties, I always listened to music in the company of one or more friends while we conversed. Back in those days, we were the most rudimentary of audiophiles. We cared more about sound than the average person, but we didn't know too much and we were relatively poor.
As time went by, my interest in music and good sound reproduction grew, and the inverse happened with my friends for various reasons like kids.
So now, even though I miss those days, I have been a solitary listener for many years, and I have learned to love that as well. I read while I listen, and sometimes, I just listen. I have my own dedicated room, and my husband is very respectful of my interest in music, but is also a solitary listener with different musical preferences, and much more occasional than myself. I listen nearly every night. Both solitary and communal listening have their good points when you think about it.

you are right,

I got hald a dozen new lps for my bday, truly enjoy listening by myself, with the wife, and miss sharing this wonderfulness with a few of my friends.

I do go back and forth with one audiophile friend, we trust each other to be safe at all other times to get together here or there, just the 4 of us, and still stay apart from each other in our houses, imaginary hugs ...

yep, and i’m not gonna fan the flames!

Poor choice of metaphor just at the moment.

That's an insult not an argument. Where are the excess deaths? Weekly deaths for under 30 is actually the lowest in the last 5 years. 

How much time have you spend in an OR? The procedure masks everyone is wearing, they are designed for the highly filtered and dry air of operating rooms. Outside the OR in normal air they clog quickly, in 20-30 minutes. Even inside the OR they are not designed to filter the air you breathe.

N95 masks are designed for use in contaminated environments. They filter the air you breathe in but not exhaled air. Even so they are designed to filter contaminants, not viruses. A virus is so small it is like trying to stop a mosquito with a chain link fence. 

In both cases these masks clog quickly with normal breathing. Then they hold onto whatever they catch. So you're actually spreading virus, growing mold and mildew, contaminating everything you touch after touching the mask, which people do a lot. This is why we have known for over 100 years these things are totally ineffective for the use we are being told requires them today.

Don't insult me and tell me I don't know the science. I will run circles around you all day long on the science. This is just one tiny little facet of the nonsense. All you have are insults. Do your research. 

Oh and by the way, about science. Science is a method for learning about the world. Science is not a means of making policy decisions. That is the realm of politics. So not only do you not know your science, you don't know your politics either. Insults. Those you got down. Congratulations.