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What exactly is the point of a mask mandate, anyway?
Hotair ^ | 08/25/2023 | David Strom

Posted on 08/25/2023 6:00:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

First things first: if you want to wear a mask, go ahead. Nobody is stopping you. If you believe they work, have at it.

Obviously, people who wear masks think they provide protection from infection. And it is hard to imagine that anybody wearing masks to protect against COVID in 2023 isn’t vaxxed to the max. A new booster is coming out soon, too.

You have your COVID armor, right?

So why the push to reinstate mask mandates?

It literally makes no sense if you believe that masks and vaccines work. And if you don’t believe they work, why push a mask mandate at all? If they work, you are protected. If they don’t, shut up about them. It is annoying and I am not wearing a mask to make you feel better.

Once the vaccines became available the rather thin argument for mask mandates evaporated. Before everybody who got pushed vaccines on us in government and public health started announcing they were once again infected with COVID they had been assuring us that it was impossible to get infected once you had the vaccine.

They always knew that was a lie, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were mistaken. Mask mandates were still in effect for months or, in some cases, over a year once the vaccines rolled out. So Fauci and the COVID crowd were wearing masks, surrounded by people wearing masks, and were vaccinated. Yet they still contracted COVID.

Still, let’s give them the presumption that COVID-19 vaccines work and that masks work. Then what?

Then you are confronted by the obvious question: if you are protected, why do you care whether other people are? If that COVID vax and your mask work so well, then my COVID means nothing to you. You are in your protected bubble, and I am no more a danger to you than a person in Africa with Ebola. Right?

Mask and vaccine mandates are implicit admission that neither masks nor vaccines work as advertised. It seems counterintuitive, but they truly are. If masks work and vaccines work then people who want protection already have access to it. What anybody else does is irrelevant, right?

That whole “You won’t get seriously ill if you take the vaccine” applies to you, right? If so, my action puts you in no greater danger. If not, neither your actions nor mine places us in any less danger.

A rational policy is much simpler: ask people with symptoms of illness–the cold, the flu, COVID, or anything else communicable to stay home, rest, and get better. We don’t want your crud.

I get the flu vaccine every year and every year I get told it isn’t all that effective (kinda like the COVID vaccine), so I take what precautions I can by avoiding sick people, I stay home if I get sick (this is common courtesy), and move on with my life.

There seems to be some magic COVID has in people’s minds, where the power of reason and the experience we all have with respiratory illnesses goes out the window. Holding two contradictory views at once seems to be required for some people.

They believe that the COVID-19 vaccine works and masks work. And yet they also believe you are putting everyone at risk if you don’t wear masks and get vaxxed.

Precisely how is not explained, nor need it be. We are just supposed to do what we are told.

 



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: compliance; covid; covid23; mandate; mandates; mask; masking; maskmandate; maskmandates; masks; obedience; obey; vaccination
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To: SeekAndFind

“It literally makes no sense if you believe that masks and vaccines work.”

There is the point, half the country does not believe they work. The other half wants to force you to comply.


21 posted on 08/25/2023 6:59:15 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: SeekAndFind

To oppress the people.


22 posted on 08/25/2023 7:04:49 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: SeekAndFind

For those who insist on wearing masks to protect from viruses try this. Put your mask on and stand next to someone who is smoking or has recently passed gas. If you smell either then the mask won’t stop the virus either since the virus particles are smaller than either smoke particles or stomach gas that is suspended in air!


23 posted on 08/25/2023 7:24:35 PM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Submit. Resistance is futile.


24 posted on 08/25/2023 7:42:57 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: SeekAndFind

So libtards can make you look stupid

Next question


25 posted on 08/25/2023 8:31:41 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: SeekAndFind
And it is hard to imagine that anybody wearing masks to protect against COVID in 2023 isn’t vaxxed to the max.

Frankly, I'm glad they are masking up. Makes it easier to avoid them shedding their poisons on you.

26 posted on 08/25/2023 8:56:00 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
The globalists are doubling down because they know they're losing their slaves.

Personally, I think your point of view is way too optimistic. In my experience, there are a craploads of people out there who have no idea TPTB want to enslave them. To be completely frank, I think we are all not much more than slaves these days. In fact, if you're paying income tax, sales tax, gas tax, liquor tax, tax on your electricity, property tax, and a whole slew of taxes that I can't even think of right off the top of my head, you are ALREADY a slave and simply are not willing to admit it. I'm a slave, and know it. Simply not ready to pull the trigger on my target yet.

27 posted on 08/25/2023 9:08:19 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fear, Control, AND Death.

Co2 poisoning, weakened immune system, anxiety/stress, lowered oxygen in the blood,... etc.


28 posted on 08/25/2023 9:22:58 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: SeekAndFind

Obedience to unpleasant commands.


29 posted on 08/25/2023 10:14:46 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe Xi DI)
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To: SeekAndFind
They are a visual symbol to keep the fear going. They also make people sick with things like bacterial pneumonia, oral thrush mouth sores and tooth loss, low oxygen levels (hypoxia), disrupt people's breathing through hypercapnia (airway obstruction) etc...They aren't for your health.
30 posted on 08/25/2023 10:30:53 PM PDT by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

It started with the flu vaccine. People have been conditioned like Pavlov’s dogs. Mention Covid and they don their masks and head to the nearest clot shot facility. It’ all about CONTROL and MONEY. If people haven’t figured it out by now, they’re hopelessly stupid.


31 posted on 08/26/2023 1:06:17 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: SeekAndFind
It's called crate training. That is what forcing people to wear masks is.

Refuse. Resist. Rebel.

Stop complying and start rebelling, for God's sake!

32 posted on 08/26/2023 2:49:55 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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33 posted on 08/26/2023 9:37:23 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: SeekAndFind

To kill more of us.

To prime more of us to accept their future experiments on humanity.

Answer? NO

It was no from the beginning with me. They pushed it too hard.

It will be NO, as I draw my last breath.

And I will resist them when they come for my property. Yes, they want to confiscate all of that.

TOMAH


34 posted on 08/27/2023 3:06:50 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Control. Power. Identification.


35 posted on 08/27/2023 3:44:11 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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