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“Insufficient facts always invite danger.” - Captain Spock
Title (Dublin Core)
“Insufficient facts always invite danger.” - Captain Spock
Description (Dublin Core)
A tweet from famed Canadian astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield and resulting response from Ottawa Public Health. The initial tweet shows three of the main characters from the original Star Trek (Bones, Kirk, and Spock) with medical masks superimposed on their faces and another crew member, wearing the red shirt which is often jokingly said to mark a character for death, in the background without a mask. The response from Ottawa Public Health is the addition of a quote from the famously logical character of Spock: "Insufficient facts always invite danger." This is possibly a reference to those who are claiming masks are ineffectual or even dangerous based on limited or untruthful sources- a section of the population with which the Public Health unit deals frequently.
Date (Dublin Core)
July 8, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Chris Hadfield
Ottawa Public Health
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Hope Gresser
Type (Dublin Core)
Tweet
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Twitter
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Government Local
English
Health & Wellness
English
Humor
English
Social Media (including Memes)
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
mask
joke
celebrity
pop culture
Star Trek
Ottawa
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
humor, joke, celebrity, pop culture reference, response to skeptics
humor
joke
celebrity
pop culture reference
response to skeptics
Collection (Dublin Core)
Humor
English
Deathways
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
07/10/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/24/2020
01/30/21
Date Created (Dublin Core)
07/08/2020
This item was submitted on July 10, 2020 by Hope Gresser using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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