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.
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.
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I agree with everything you said and your final paragraph sums it up well.
I am haunted by 6 words spoken by a holocaust survivor in an interview I saw many years ago. When asked why they got on the trains without putting up a fight, that dear little old man got a look in his eyes I do not have the words to describe, then hung his head, shook it slightly back and forth and said: “it was just one more thing . . .