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.”...
Suspect that's why she wasn't in The Top Gun sequel.
Amen, Brother!
Jennifer Connelly still looks good…and human.
Nine years her junior though.
Business owners? What about hospitals and doctors’ offices?
You can’t ignore their mask mandates or you won’t be keeping your appointment.
Then deal with it. You have two options:
1. Cancel your appointment.
2. Wear the mask.
Why does anyone think this is a mystery?
Can we think of this in terms of lies? The mask is a lie. The pandemic is a lie. The vaccine is a lie. The lockdown is a lie. Banning ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine is a lie. Medically discriminating someone and denying them access to critical services and goods or their bank account over a lie is a violation of the constitution, a violation of civil rights, a violation of nature, a federal offense.
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.” As a son of God I have a biological imperative to the spirit of truth. I will not tolerate being discriminated against by a private business or corporate franchise because they won’t serve me unless I participate or contribute to their lie.
“Dealing with it” is wearing the mask, of course.
Sorry you thought it was a mystery.
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