OK, but I’ll continue to wear mine in crowds if that’s OK.
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We should all do what our own research (and our doctors) determine what is best. I have no qualms about differing opinions nor in expressing those differences.
What is disturbing, and this is not directed at you, is when one side tries to forces the other to do what they believe is harmful. In this case wearing masks for every waking hour and every activity, or forcing vaccines.
COVID is political-it is being used to control people, trying to use peer pressure to enslave us all to their whims. Although individual doctors may or may not b trustworthy, I am certain those who are profiting from a Ovid are not.
Peace, FRiend
I agree with that 100%. Both sides are doing damage trying to prove a political point. Our health, whatever our circumstances, shouldn’t consider politics first.
I agree 100% that the covid virus(?) was designed as a bio-weapon by China and the left. I believe it was a dud as far as bioweapons go and they had to make a “vaccine” to finish the job the virus failed to do. That’s my opinion. I don’t intend to make everybody believe what I do. Still, it’s a disease that I don’t want to get since I have asthma. If wearing the stupid mask (yes, I dislike them too) helps even a scintilla, I will wear it.
I agree that mandates that say everybody, healthy or not, has to wear one is a scare tactic for control. Still, see the above reason why I do it. I only wear one in intense crowds, never outside, and never in a vehicle. That’s just not necessary IMO but I won’t make fun of somebody that does or call them names.
True story....I was in Tractor Supply about a month ago. There was a sign on the door stating masks were REQUIRED. I go in because I expect people to have them on. I realized that most didn’t have them on. I turned to leave and an anti-masker “Karen” crossed the aisle and put her face right in mine and laughed. I didn’t say a word. I backed up at the same time her husband grabbed her and pulled her away from me. He apologized while she laughed and smirked. Those are the sorts I have an intense dislike for right about now.
When I see people here making fun of people that choose to wear one, calling them names like “sheeple” and “low IQ”, I tend to react due to my personal experiences. I really hope people that do that here are not like that in public. Most of those posts I skim over and probably should all of them. The “hacks” I was referring to are the ones that call names and claim science 100% says they don’t work. You can look hard enough and find anything online that will back up a belief. I’m not sure about that second claim and don’t want elderly people that are more timid told not to do something that might help. That’s all. I think most Freepers mean well even if I think they are wrong.
Your observation that all covid rules and guidelines are political is astute. They’re designed for the maximum control that they dare take at this point in time, but it’s clear that their measures are incremental and will become more strict and intrusive over time as we concede the necessity of each one.
While masks are being sold to the public as a safety issue, it’s only the second step in a plan to impose increasingly restrictive behaviour on the public, the first having been 6 feet of distance between us, and the third being lockdowns. The fourth step is encouragement to take the “vaccine” and the fifth is probably forced confinement, first at home, then in a government detention facility, for failure to vaccinate. Somewhere between four and six is the vaccine passport.
I’m unwilling to agree to ANY of the measures because I know my acceptance will only encourage them to impose the next step. I may very well die of covid because I refused to wear a mask, but it’s a stand I’m willing to take to prevent or retard the imposition of more harsh and freedom-limiting measures. No matter how effective or ineffective a mask might be, someone has put a frog in a pot of cold water and the mask is the heat being turned up.
That’s my 40,000 foot view.