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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)

https://twitter.com/ottawahealth/status/1280998457818447872
https://web.archive.org/web/20200708231627/https://twitter.com/ottawahealth/status/1280998457818447872

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)

Refugee advocates beseech bylaw to 'warn and inform' after man handed $880 fine

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/10/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/24/2020
01/30/21

Date Created (Dublin Core)

07/08/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Canada

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”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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