Sideswipe: March 10: Air filter or dog nose?

If you thought masks were a necessary but annoying accessory, you'll love Nosy, a compact air filter and purifier that fits on your snoz. It's a patent-pending filtration system that allegedly breaks down toxic gases from fossil fuel emissions and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), while at the same time from particles down to 0.03 microns in size, like pollen, dust, mould spores and smoke, and also looks like a dog nose.

Jab passport

Fred writes: "I have a solution to all the vacuous talk around the need for a "Covid Passport".  Just resurrect what we used to have.  An International Certificates of Vaccination issued by the then Department of Health under World Health Organisation auspices.  It was Form H.803 and I still have the last of three I had from the 1950s – see image attached.  It was required for entry to many countries in Asia, Africa and South America in particular, where yellow fever, cholera and smallpox for example were still prevalent.  There's not much new in this world to us pre-Boomers."

Agree or disagree?

Caller ID should be mandatory. "No person or organisation should be able to hide behind "unknown caller", according to this Reddit user. "If you have access to my number and have chosen to contact me, I should have the right to know who you are. I never answer my phone if it's caller unknown and that could be a problem in an emergency. At the same time I can get up to 10 unknown calls a day from two separate numbers attached to a single device. If you're calling me I should have a right to know who you are and yes, that should influence if I will answer or not."

Double nominative determinism

From Dow Jones Newswires.

Out of the mouths of babes

• 1. I let my niece out of her car seat and said: "You're free!" She responded, "no I'm free and a half!"
• 2. My mother took me to a funeral when I was really little. While we were waiting for it to start I asked loudly, "what's in the box?"
• 3. My son refers to tissues as crying napkins.
• 4. Excited, our daughter ran in to tell us about the new girl in the class from China who spoke apricot.