Posted on 03/10/2021 3:33:42 AM PST by MtnClimber
Mask mandates have become nothing more than dress code loyalty oaths.
The Centers for Disease Control released another study showing no statistically significant decrease in "daily case" or "death growth" rates from COVID-19 in areas with mask mandates. This comes after a similar CDC study in October indicated that mask mandates do not appear to have slowed or stopped the spread of the coronavirus at all. Still, the CDC continues to recommend that all Americans wear masks, except in certain private settings when individuals are fully vaccinated, unless the goalpost-shifting Dr. Fauci gets his way.
This whole "masks don't seem to be having much effect, but wear them anyway" bureaucratic calculus may seem like a frivolous controversy to Americans preoccupied with the pandemic, but for Americans who are equally worried about the State's steady encroachment into the lives of families, mask mandates are the worst kind of noxious administrative abuse — another iteration of government coercion that constricts a person's freedom while accomplishing next to nothing. It's government rule-making for the sake of rule-making whose chief purpose is to demonstrate that it is the government's job to command and each citizen's duty to readily obey.
Mask mandates are the perfect metaphor for a government that demands obedience:
Mask mandates are reminiscent of Barack Obama's belief that wealthy Americans should be taxed at higher rates, even if the imposition of those new taxes produces no net benefit for the federal treasury. By his own admission, Obama's insistence on increasing taxes for wealthy Americans was not about generating government revenue or reducing government debt, but rather about punishing individual Americans for having acquired too much personal wealth. It was a way for Obama to prove that he takes income inequality seriously while doing nothing about it.
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Masks are the new party armband. The left does not believe in science. They don’t even believe in math.
They’re not masks.
They’re muzzles.
That’s true. In all the millennia of known human social existence, masks have never signified anything positive. Secrecy and ill intent when worn by those in power, fear and servitude when worn by those subject to them.
See tagline.
Yep. See the slave photos above.
They’re not letting go of this symbol of control anytime soon. But when they finally let go, I guarantee you there will be another major crisis that they can take advantage of to further destroy what little freedom we once had.
When did the CDC get the authority to order citizens to do anything? Is it now CDC law we live under?
...and accepting a vaccine injection for a disease having a 99.8% recovery rate is an act of allegiance.
There may be a few areas where masks may help, but they are the opposite of the type of areas where people are told to where masks all the time.
Those few places are in enclosed settings (the rooms of a house or office), where there is close contact that remains close contact for some period of time, and where one of the individuals present suspects themselves to be experiencing symptoms of a respiratory illness.
A very large, post-infection, contact retracing study in New York state found that 80% of all infections were obtained in either the home, or a healthcare or nursing home type setting.
And of that 80%, 82.5 % of that (66% of the total) was in the home, and 25% of that (20% of the total) was in the healthcare/nursing home settings.
The other 20% of the total infections were spread across so many different venues that none of them signified major infection settings.
Yet, what do we have, due to the mandates and recommendations from “authorities”. We have lone persons, walking down a quiet unoccupied residential sidewalk WEARING A MASK, as if the breeze from the trees posed some danger to them, or they posed some danger to the natural environment around them. You know the socialist narrative has won over most of the sheeple when you see that.
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