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Covid Taught Americans To Stop Trusting A Government That Puts Them Last
The Federalist ^ | 12 Mar, 2025 | Elle Purnell

Posted on 03/12/2025 6:33:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 03/12/2025 6:33:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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I still occasionally see people driving alone and wearing a mask,


2 posted on 03/12/2025 6:33:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I still occasionally see people driving alone and wearing a mask,

I often see Leftist protestors outside with the overwhelming majority of them wearing masks...

3 posted on 03/12/2025 6:36:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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“COVID” taught me that the vast majority of people are feckless, fearful, selfish, ignorant, gullible, dangerous retards. It showed me how much of a threat the majority of people are to freedom, and how easily they can be manipulated into supporting the violation of other people’s rights.


4 posted on 03/12/2025 6:36:38 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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Yup! Some saw it for what it was. Compliance test. We are non participants.


5 posted on 03/12/2025 6:38:04 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: MtnClimber

Such weak minded fools.


6 posted on 03/12/2025 6:38:43 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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There were also separate rules for illegal aliens.

The other stunner—the “my body my choice” abortion crowd decided that the slogan did not apply to those who did not want vaccines.


7 posted on 03/12/2025 6:38:53 AM PDT by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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Yep. Incredible. I do also see, out and about in public, some still wearing them. In some cases, older, more frail-looking folks. But in many (maybe most?) it’s healthy-looking kids in their early 20’s. Not sure what’s going on there. Perhaps a bit of PTSD, or perhaps, they think, a political statement of some kind?


8 posted on 03/12/2025 6:39:14 AM PDT by drwoof
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“I still occasionally see people driving alone and wearing a mask”

Just the other day for me.....because security cameras are are everywhere nowadays, I suspect it’s more about concealing their identity than anything else.

BTW, my observation is that it’s almost always a certain ethnicity.


9 posted on 03/12/2025 6:42:16 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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well I still see a lot of sheeple wearing masks... I even see an occasional solo driver wearing one as they drive down the street.


10 posted on 03/12/2025 6:42:56 AM PDT by sit-rep
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That WAS rather revealing, wasn’t it? It also brought into the discussion a fact I’d never much thought about previously, that as healthy, battle-capable male, the government had ‘control’ of my body for most of my life through a thing called The Draft.


11 posted on 03/12/2025 6:43:54 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: Sicon

Everything I learned had been said by Dr. Zaius in “Planet of the Apes”.

I think the author has it a bit backwards. The division that already existed between those dependent on government and those with a healthy distrust of it was made just as apparent as the other preexisting divisions she mentions.

The people who learned were the rioters. They learned that two sets of rules existed and they did not have to act like humans.


12 posted on 03/12/2025 6:47:32 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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The worst part of the Covid hoax was the “essential versus non-essential” businesses. Since when is any legitimate business nonessential. The owner, manager, employees, and landlord of that business highly disagree.


13 posted on 03/12/2025 6:54:14 AM PDT by albie (U)
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“…or even putting them into camps.“

How I wish they’d tried that one. But they got away with doing all but…so why push it?


14 posted on 03/12/2025 6:54:33 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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I can understand some older folks making an effort to wear them even though they actually don’t do much good. Some medical treatments can severely weaken immune systems so they are trying to protect themselves and this lowered immunity.

But all the young adults? They are just plain brainwashed and now it is a lifestyle. Their god the government put the fear of god into them and it will now stick for life. They will be psychologically traumatized by fear for life.

What those insane radical extremist State Governors did to these kids was absolutely criminal.


15 posted on 03/12/2025 6:58:59 AM PDT by Openurmind
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, and Obama’s part elite at Martha Vineyard, the smart people who knew how to social distance with high IQ’s that could party together while the rest had drones flying over to make sure there was isolation, no churches, no singing.


16 posted on 03/12/2025 7:00:54 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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"The worst part of the Covid hoax was the “essential versus non-essential” businesses."

The fact that churches, schools, and most small/family-owned businesses were deemed "non-essential", while liquor, cannabis, and big-box stores were allowed to remain open, further exposed the "COVID" fraud as the audacious lie that it was from the beginning.

17 posted on 03/12/2025 7:14:20 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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Agreed.


18 posted on 03/12/2025 7:14:59 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: MtnClimber

... and some people truly do not understand this nearly-complete loss of trust and integrity ... and are “surprised” by a widespread distrust of what health “experts” say and recommend. This loss of credibility is not a good thing for our society ... but it’s real and it’s completely understandable ... to me, anyway.


19 posted on 03/12/2025 7:19:47 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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If you’d have told me before covid that millions of Americans would blindly and without question follow directions to wear a mask, get a little if at all tested experimental injection, stay 6 feet apart and walk down grocery store isles in only one direction I would have called you a lunatic.

I never would have thought in a million years that so many people in this country were that weak minded.


20 posted on 03/12/2025 7:22:56 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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