Posted on 08/23/2023 5:15:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A summer surge of COVID-19 has some wondering aloud if we should return to mask mandates. For now, the official line, despite the media effort to rekindle coronavirus hysteria, is that it’s unlikely. But we heard that before, in 2020, right before public health officials dropped their mask tyranny on us. If they do it again, we have an obligation to say no.
Are we calling for civil disobedience? Are we suggesting that Americans resist orders that are not laws but are instead decrees issued by despots? Absolutely, and without reservation.
Masks are dehumanizing. When we cover our faces, we no longer look like people. We look like monsters, freaks from bad science fiction movies. Half-blank faces stare back at us as our ability to communicate is skewed. A masked society is a hideous society.
When we wear masks because we are told to, we subjugate ourselves, surrender our agency to others. We symbolically kneel before abusive authorities that should have no authority over us. Are we free people or are we subordinates to politicians and an administrative structure that has accrued illegitimate power?
Masks project fear. Who wants to live in a world that is frightened, driven by panic, hiding behind a facade of protection? It was demoralizing to see the extremes that people went to to cover their faces during the pandemic. (Some of those in the video referenced here were clearly using caricatures to spoof the mandates, but we don’t need those again, either.)
Masks are vehicles for virtue signaling. Many wear them as demonstrations of their moral superiority – they care so much. Government officials find a perverse pleasure in decreeing mask mandates – because they care so much. Masked busybodies have accosted, sometimes violently, the unmasked, who simply want to exercise their liberty.
For all the fighting, some of it literal, as we just noted, over masking, there’s no evidence that mask mandates work.
First, in August 2021, more than a year into the COVID madness, former Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics Jeffrey H. Anderson wrote in City Journal that “research suggests that Americans’ many months of mask-wearing has likely provided little to no health benefit and might even have been counterproductive in preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.”...
If the WHO gains authority over world-wide pandemic responses then we can expect continuous “Plandemics”. Resist we much!
We’re not gonna take it!
And I will exercise my liberty, sometimes violently with opposition.
FJB!
Most of these articles miss the point. This battle really needs to be fought between business owners and government officials. I routinely ignored mask mandates in public areas back in 2020, and nothing ever happened to me. But once you enter a business establishment, it’s really not your place to disregard any stupid restrictions they have posted on the door — even if they’re only doing it under government orders.
When SHTF be ready to quarantine your town from a sick country.
I want Little House on the Prairie, not The Walking Dead.
Some leftists wear masks to identify themselves as non-Republicans. Mindless, obedient drones they are.
Yes. This is the problem.
There WILL be civil disobedience.
Those calling the shots should be very, very worried (but we all know that most of them are not).
And if they call for jabs again the gloves come off.
I WILL go to the mattresses.
And if that “business establishment” is your employer and they say, “No mask means no job”, what are ya gonna do?
Top down rejection of this nonsense needs to happen starting now. We shall see.
Exactly. Too many busi esses will require masks because they are sheep and follow orders, and if folks wanna fly anywhere, take a bus, taxi etc, or go to medical appointments, go shopping etc or even do business, they are not going to be able to do so, nor will the protests be effective enough to cripple the businesses because too many sheep will comply and keep the businesses running throughout the tyranny ask and vax period. Businesses that require vaccinations and masks will likely buckle under pressure and begin firing those that don’t comply once again. Nurses, docs etc that refuse will be let go and ,one licenses to practice for “disobeying a medical directive” etc. It’s gonna get nasty again if the left succeed and republican states don’t tell the left where to go.
If however enough businesses did what Florida did, and tell the gov to go pound sand, and enough states did that, then the tyranny would end. Will it happen? Hope so- but doubtful- as there are too many liberal and rino states who are terrified of the government. To be effective, The fight will need to be between the state vs gov, and businesses vs gov. How many will obey big brother? How many will rise and shine as examples of freedom?
The tyranny of corporate policy is proof that we life under commercial/admiralty law, not constitutional law. The founding documents have been used as concepts to pacify us while management makes steps bringing us back to a caste, slavery model.
I will not be governed from the outside. That is oppression. I am governed from the inside inspired and self motivated by God's law - Harm None and Be Harmed None. If constitutional law and natural rights end at the entrance to a business then that business is operating a foreign jurisdiction within our borders and needs to be prosecuted and closed. It is a federal offence to violate the constitution.
“There WILL be civil disobedience.”
And we had better make each and every DemocRAT politician fearful to even come to the windows of their mansion. Let Bastille Day for the U.S. usher in a new era of guillotines and suffering leftists.
Masks are still effective for criminals trying to conceal their identities.
Some **** was masked up last night and wouldn’t go down the stairs until my team was all the way down the stairs.
Karens are returning…
Karens are making their O-Faces at the prospects of the masks returning.
You know what I’m talking about…O…O…
Requiring masks is in the same area as No Negroes as far as I’m concerned.
“Resist we much!…”
Like your thinking.
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