Posted on 10/14/2020 5:54:22 PM PDT by Lenora Thompson
In the Good Ol' Days, it took really big things to divide-and-conquer. Religion. Race. Territory. Greed. Honour.
Now, all it takes is a 5" strip of fabric.
Saul Alinsky must be so proud.
There are the maskers and the anti-maskers and never the twain shall meet. Both sides of the argument cite science but the older I get, the more clear it becomes that so-called science, like so-called COVID-19 statistics, will "prove" whatever the sponsor of the study wants it to prove. Numbers can be inflated because people have agendas.
Now I was raised by germaphobes. I once bragged, "I can follow a germ from here to the Great Wall of China" so it wasn't long into the COVID-19 scare before I realized the futility of trying to eradicate every possible virus molecule from our lives.
It's impossible. What about the mail? What about the surfaces of toilet paper and tissues? What about...the list of ways to become infected will drive you batcrap crazy which may be exactly what They want. Anxiety, stress and fear all decimate your immune system.
The death knell to my mask wearing was when Michael joked, "Thinking a mask will stop a virus is like thinking jeans will stop a fart." After I peeled myself up off the floor where I was ROTFLMAO, I threw my mask away.
So if masks have nothing to do with the virus, what are they really about? Why do Dr. Fauci, Jim Acosta and the other mask-pushers remove their masks whenever they think the cameras aren't looking? The Costume of Compliance
With due respect to the ill and elderly, I see masks as a symbol. Nothing more, nothing less. The symbol that "I will comply with whatever They tell me to do. I will relinquish my freedoms for a piecrust promise of safety."
Been there...for 31 years.
Done that...for 31 years.
You get neither freedom nor safety with such a bargain.
In the movie, V for Vendetta, everyone in London receives the Anonymous mask so they can stand together in solidarity against the tyranny of the NWO government that has taken over Parliament.
Our masks are the opposite. As masked (and unmasked) rioters burn, loot and kill in the name of socialism or equality or goodness knows what, all the good people are mandated to wear masks to blend in and camouflage the bad people.
Well, I won't be one of them.
But it's not just about division and distancing, it's also about distraction. About getting pissed off at each other about trifles like whether or not we're wearing a 5" strip of fabric across our face to distract us from the balls we need to keep our eyes on: Antifa, the election, vote harvesting, the shenanigans of The Swamp and The Squad, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Kamala the Kondescending, freedom, America, God.
The bottle blonde who decided to engage in battle of the wills with me last week is a classic example of division and distraction.
I wanted to shop. She wanted to flex her muscles and control.
She started yelling about masks the moment I stepped into the store. I replied with a polite "I'm fine" and commenced shopping.
Now if she'd really been worried about the virus, she wouldn't have come within six feet of me (though sneeze droplets travel far further.)
Instead, she not only violated that ridiculous social distancing, she violated my personal space as well. She was right on top of me!
Now, my mama always told me to ignore bullies and it usually works like a charm. But this tall, thin, young fake blonde wouldn't take the hint. After all, she had two other clerks to impress by dominating this middle-aged, plus size, bookish, bespectacled Hobbit.
She didn't reckon on one thing. I've been pissed with, dominated and controlled my entire life. I may look like Rosie Cotton but I'll be damned if I submit for one more second! It's like Gandalf said, "Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month and yet, after a hundred years, they can still surprise you."
I looked her in the eye and said, "I said 'I'm fine'," in my very best, step-mother-of-three, I-don't-take-shit voice.
It worked.
She wandered away while continuing to loudly harass me. "If you'd just said your doctor...there's a monetary fine...entitled." Now that's a word I've never been called before.
Freedom isn't an entitlement. I have a God-given right to a bare face, fresh air and choices.
As unpleasant as that experience was, it feels damned good to not just write about freedom, but to do something about it. To act on the courage of my convictions. To suffer, a tiny bit, for what I believe in. To prove myself to myself and my readers.
I made just one mistake: I bought something for Michael at that store. I should've walked out empty-handed.
Here's my challenge to myself and all of us: Boycott stores, such as Menards, that require masks disregarding personal freedom and medical problems, including those incurred by our brave soldiers who were injured while serving and defending Menards' freedom to be the little tyrants they've become. They hate kids too!
Their policies are unAmerican so let's starve them financially out of existence to make way for good retailers who support President Trump and welcome children, veterans and the maskless. Stores like Home Depot.
Whether you choose to mask or unmask is, of course, entirely your personal choice. We all have our own reasons and logic.
But ask yourself this: What are my motivations for masking? Am I just trying to avoid a supremely survivable virus? Or am I afraid to stand up for my rights? Of conflict?
My decision to unmask had nothing to do with a silly 5" strip of fabric. That was merely the litmus test for my courage. If I flunked standing up to our Orwellian Governor Walz about something as minuscule as a mask, I'd flunk every test to stand up for my freedom.
Next test: Voting without a mask...because in Minnesota, regardless of a doctor's note or not, you can only vote curbside without a mask...so they'll know which ones to shred!
Stay tuned...
It has become hijab. Complete with people ready to hate and harm those who don’t wear the mandated uniform.
It has become hijab. Complete with people ready to hate and harm those who don’t wear the mandated uniform.
By framing mask usage as smart, kind, moral, proof that you care ... it made anyone who disagreed mean, selfish and evil. Hate and fear the unbeliever who wants to hurt you and doesn’t care if you die.
That’s why there are many videos of liberal bullies screaming at people in stores for not wearing a mask, even when it is a young child not wearing one.
Training people to equate compliance with kindness and morality means they hate and fear the non-compliant. Thus the liberal bullies who sprayed picnickers with mace, though they were clearly sitting down to eat.
Very educational. I didn’t see that as clearly as you do but it explains a Facebook friend freaking out and saying, “I knew this wasn’t a safe place” when she heard I supported Trump. I didn’t change. I didn’t attack her but she sure did with the F-word flying! Snowflake!
Yet the same militant maskers support abortion. The mind reels.
And you are what?
Re: And you are what?
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a maskerbaiter
The Secret Speech of General Chi Haotian
Quoted speech from The Epoch Times posted by J.R. Nyquist
September 11, 2019
https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/
“In 2005, THE EPOCH TIMES acquired a secret speech given by Defense Minister Chi Haotian to high-level Communist Party Cadres sometime before his retirement in 2003. Details given in Chi’s speech coincide with previously unpublished defector testimony on Sino-Russian military plans.
The speech follows:
Comrades,
Many years ago, there was a book titled Yellow Catastrophes. It said that, due to our following the American style of consumption, our limited resources would not long support the population and society would collapse, once our population reaches 1.3 billion. Now our population has already exceeded this limit, and we are now relying on imports to sustain our nation.
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The reason that the United States remains today is that it has never seen war on its mainland. Once its enemies aim at the mainland, these enemies would reach Washington before its congress finishes debating and authorizes the president to declare war. But for us, we don’t waste time on these trivial things.
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So, Only by breaking the blockade formed by the western countries headed by the United States can China grow and move toward the world!
Would the United States allow us to go out to gain new living space?
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Only countries like the United States, Canada and Australia have the vast land to serve our need for mass colonization.
Therefore, solving the “issue of America” is the key to solving all other issues. First, this makes it possible for us to have many people migrate there and even establish another China under the same leadership of the CCP.
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It is said that the residents of the yellow race have a very low social status in the United States. We need to liberate them. Second, after solving the “issue of America,” the western countries of Europe would bow to us,
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It is historical destiny that China and the United States will come to unavoidable confrontation on a narrow path and fight each other!
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Only by using special means to “clean up” America will we be able to lead the Chinese people there. This is the only choice left for us. This is not a matter of whether we are willing to do it or not. What kind of special means is there available for us to “clean up America”?
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Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves. There has been rapid development of modern biological technology, and new bio-weapons have been invented one after another. Of course, we have not been idle, in the past years we have seized the opportunity to master weapons of this kind. We are capable of achieving our purpose of “cleaning up” America all of a sudden. When Comrade Xiaoping was still with us, the Party Central Committee had the perspicacity to make the right decision not to develop aircraft carrier groups and focus instead on developing lethal weapons that can eliminate mass populations of the enemy country.
From a humanitarian perspective, we should issue a warning to the American people and persuade them to leave America and leave the land they have lived in to the Chinese people. Or at least they should leave half of the United States to be China’s colony, because America was first discovered by the Chinese. But would this work? If this strategy does not work, then there is only one choice left to us. That is, use decisive means to “clean up” America and reserve America for our use in a moment. Our historical experience has proven that as long as we make it happen, nobody in the world can do anything about us. Furthermore, if the United States as the leader is gone, then other enemies have to surrender to us.
Biological weapons are unprecedented in their ruthlessness, but if the Americans do not die then the Chinese have to die. If the Chinese people are strapped to the present land, a total societal collapse is bound to take place. According to the computation of the author of Yellow Peril, more than half of the Chinese will die, and that figure would be more than 800 million people! Just after the liberation, our yellow land supported nearly 500 million people, while today the official figure of the population is more than 1.3 billion. This yellow land has reached the limit of its capacity. One day, who knows how soon it will come, the great collapse will occur any time and more than half the population will have to go.
We must prepare ourselves for two scenarios. If our biological weapons succeed in the surprise attack, the Chinese people will be able to keep their losses at a minimum in the fight against the United States.
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[And much more. Worth reading!]
Probably not tricks per se. If I see one with a creature in his mouth I yell, “Drop that thing! Drop that thing!” They actually drop said animal, and it escapes a near certain death. Usually the previously caught animal survives long enough to run away to a secret hiding place, and this USUALLY takes place outside. I have learned not to completely panic if I’m being presented with a small animal gift, especially indoors.
One of the cats will jump onto our shoulders on command. It’s a gesture. We tap our shoulder as if giving permission to hope on board, and then they jump into our shoulders!
Worse, cloth face diapers are a petri dish...rubbed around the face, pulled under the nose or chin, hung from one ear, laid on the table, stuffed in the purse or pocket and hung from the rear view mirror. Just spend some time watching the mask parade!
After I chose not to comply, I simply ignore the signs. If told masks are required or as happens more recently, I am offered a mask, I establish eye contact, and calmly say, “I'm exempt.” As a result, I'm no longer asked to comply and left alone.
Awwwww, your kittens sound delightful...sans the almost dead wild creatures. Our Snuggles caught a mouse once 18 months ago in the bathroom and now she stares at that particular crack in the bathroom paneling every night for hours. It’s so sad! And cute. What a memory!
“I’m exempt.” Brilliant! Little do they know, they too are exempt. After I saw a nurse culture the interior of a mask in a petri dish, I was EXTRA done with them. Gross!
Chilling. Thank you very much for sharing that. I understand what’s going on so much better now. :(
Indeed.
Okeydoker also neglected to ping the subject of his derision. Calling Lauren Thompson “an idiot” without pinging her is a deleterious and unfortunate breach of FreeRepublic norms, forms and edicate that I find disappointing and sad. Okeydoker you sir are possessed of not even the most basic appointment for norms and polite behavior. I find you repugnant at the very least. Maskerbaiter indeed!
Our cats celebrated their tenth birthday this year. They are rescues that our daughter fostered before they were old enough to be cared for or adopted at her local Humane Society. When she was fostering them, she came home for a visit (she had just graduated from college) so brought them with her. She was gone most of the time on her long weekend visit that I had to give them their medicines a couple of times a day. That sneak, she knew exactly what she was doing, and we asked if we could have first bat at adopting them!
They were both brought in separately (but on the same day) when they were about a week old, so we were able to count back to get an approximate birth date. We named them Watson and Crick after the famed DNA scientists and their birthday is celebrated on April 25, which is DNA day. Those funny little kittens are now full grown monsters that have tugged at our heart strings all this time.
Am I to assume that every author posted by a FReeper is a FReeper?
Where did this rule come from?
The custom applies. At least she responds to comments which is more than most of the Blogging class will do.
It is not a matter of “weak sensitivity”. They’ve been emotionally trained to love the fellow believer and sacred oppressed groups ... and hate and fear the infidel, the unbeliever in social justice.
Enjoying your ‘open-air prison’, America? (Stole that from my pastor...)
That’s GOOD. I may steal it from you! ;)
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