Posted on 04/10/2021 4:28:46 AM PDT by ConservativeStLouisGuy
There is only one way to end the endless mask mandates, and that is to just stop wearing them.
One hundred days.
That’s what President Biden asked for before he was inaugurated – 100 days of masking. That was the linchpin of his plan to end the coronavirus pandemic. It was in his executive order requiring people to wear masks when they are on U.S. Government property, including national parks and forests, even when there are no other people around for miles. Just give him that 100 days and everything will be fine.
Well, April 30 is the 100th day. On May 1, we can take off our masks for good.
Well, maybe. But probably not. In fact, Biden has said as much.
By now we should know that the goalposts won’t be where they were when we began this latest touchdown drive. They never are. It seems to be an inviolable law of nature that when the government imposes restrictions to deal with a temporary crisis, those restrictions hang around long after the crisis has passed.
Some of you older folks may remember the national 55 miles per hour speed limit on the interstate highways. President Nixon signed it into law in January 1974 to reduce fuel consumption during the Arab oil embargo of October 1973. The embargo ended in March 1974, but the law hung around for another generation, only the excuse became “highway safety” – which as studies found, the law did nothing to improve.
Or more recently, remember “two weeks to flatten the curve”? Two weeks in national lockdown to avoid overwhelming the hospitals with Covid-19 cases. Two weeks that turned into a month, then two, three, four months, and more. The hospitals were never overwhelmed – in fact, they were laying off healthcare workers – but state governors continued the lockdowns, only now the excuse was to “slow the spread.” Except that in states that didn’t lock down, coronavirus didn’t spread any faster than in states that did.
And then there are the mask mandates. These, too, are supposed to be temporary. “Until we have a vaccine,” they said. Well, now we have, not one, but three vaccines. So, what are they saying now that people are getting vaccinated? That we’ll have to keep wearing, not one, but two masks – well into 2022, according to Dr. Fauci, even if you’ve had all the vaccinations. Why? “Variant strains,” says Dr. Fauci, except the vaccines so far have been effective against them, too.
There is no science – no real science – behind the mask mandates. The Centers for Disease Control inadvertently revealed the lack of scientific support for wearing masks to avoid contracting Covid-19 in their weekly morbidity and mortality report for September 11 last year. One of the statistics reported was that 85 percent of their sample of 153 symptomatic Covid patients reported wearing masks “always” or “often.”
This percentage does not differ significantly from The Economist/YouGov poll finding (sample size = 1500) that during the same period as the CDC study, 84 percent of all Americans were wearing masks. Plugging these percentages into Bayes’ theorem and performing a little algebra, we find that the probability of contracting Covid-19 while wearing a mask is actually higher than the probability of catching it while going maskless, though not significantly so. In other words, masks – at least the cloth and surgical masks most Americans are actually wearing – are basically useless as personal protection from Covid-19.
As for masks preventing us from infecting others, take a look at this video and this one. As you can see, any breath that does not go out the front of the mask goes out the sides. So instead of infecting the person standing a foot in front of you, you infect the people on either side of you.
What our mask masters don’t seem to get is that our bodies need oxygen, and to get the required number of free oxygen molecules into our bloodstreams, we must inhale a certain volume of air. This means we also must exhale about the same volume (although about 20 percent of the free oxygen we inhaled has been exchanged for carbon dioxide). The only sure-fire way to keep from getting or spreading Covid-19 is to put a tight-fitting plastic bag over your head. After that, you will have no more worries about Covid-19 – or about anything else.
Despite the absence of any real scientific evidence that masks actually work – and spraying aerosol at a mannequin isn’t “scientific evidence” – we are now told that we not only have to keep wearing these medically useless pieces of cloth, but we have to wear them even after receiving a vaccination. In fact, Biden now wants us all to stay masked until everybody has been vaccinated – in other words, forever, since that will never happen.
Even more infuriating about the ongoing mask mandates is that there is a good chance we already have herd immunity. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal back in February, Dr. Marty Makary of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health argued that, based on the population fatality rate and the infection fatality rate, it was likely that up to two-thirds of the U.S. population has already had the Covid-19 infection. Add to that the people who have been fully vaccinated, and this should put us very close to herd immunity by early April if we are not already there. That new infections and hospitalizations have been on a sharp downward trend since January provides some pretty convincing evidence of this.
So why do we have to keep wearing masks – especially after the latest CDC report found that fully vaccinated people neither get nor spread the virus?
Here’s a clue: the mandates have nothing to do with the pandemic. There is no valid medical reason for healthy people to keep wearing masks, especially if they’ve been vaccinated. No, the reason is political, not medical. Like the tricolor cockade worn during the French Revolution, a mask demonstrates your submission to your rulers.
There is only one way to end the endless mask mandates, and that is to just stop wearing them. President Biden asked for 100 days of masking. All right, As of May 1, he’ll have had his 100 days. On that day I propose that we all remove our masks and keep them off. It is time the American people let their rulers know they will no longer tolerate arbitrary and useless mandates that seem to be more about controlling them with fear than protecting them from disease. The goalposts have been moved for the last time.
And May 1 is an especially appropriate date for the great unmasking. May Day is the traditional international socialist holiday, and the pandemic has been used as an excuse to deprive us of our freedoms and advance the socialist agenda (e.g., see the recently-passed $1.9 trillion “covid relief” package). What better day to stand up to these would-be Stalins?
So, tell all your friends. Get the message out on social media. Be polite and respectful of others and don’t violate their personal space, but be firm in asserting your rights.
^ Mayday!
Phil Manger wrote it.
Why wait?
“Mayday!”
and we can run around in circles, scream and shout the
“L’Internationale”! MAYDAY-MAYDAY!!!
biden has been in control for 80 days. He has not been able to stop the epidemic. He never intended to. His plan was to use the crisis as long as possible, and then discard it for another crisis.
He has failed. There are no plans to succeed. The vaccine is a smokescreen, designed to distract. It gave us false hope beginning back in December. It has not solved the problem. They are going to allow the creation of a national “vaccine passport”. You get fired for not having a vax.
We have done enough. We have lost far too many freedoms during this artificially inflated crisis.
The big mistake was looking to government to solve the problem. Government took advantage of the problem and therefore had no reason to want to solve it.
South Dakotan here..........haven’t worn a mask in state since this whole pile of BS started. Of course there were a few businesses that made you wear them, but I chose to shop elsewhere and now they, for the most part, have backed way off on mask usage. So many people have been willing sheep. I just don’t understand the follow-along attitude.
What mask?
I stopped wearing one last week. If a store requires one, I go elsewhere.
Freedom Day in Alabama. The Governor finally lifted the requirement. I can’t believe she mandated them. For any place still requiring them, I will boycott.
Why wait?
In Texas We took our off in March
May Day will be 3 weeks after the second shot. Until then I’ll keep a mask in my pocket and use it if a business has a product or service I can’t get elsewhere and has a mask requirement. Right now my city is approaching infection levels on par with last summer and declining.
From the article:
“...the latest CDC report found that fully vaccinated people neither get nor spread the virus...”
So, what about the ‘covid breakthrough’ cases in vaxed people?
People get bombarded with a lot mask propaganda on a daily basis that masks work. When I watch the local news in the morning, there is daily case and body count along the occasional PSA's to mask up. In Illinois, businesses can be fined for not enforcing mask rules.
There should be tee shirts advertising National Mask Burning Day.
I took the last one off about the beginning of May last year, refused to ever wear one since, any business that tries to tell me I have to wear one, I leave and never come back, and let them know it. I try to tell them I can’t breathe with the damn thing on, if they refuse to listen and still insist, SEE YA!
Texas just reopened not long ago, I still see plenty people wearing masks, and lots of them discarded in parking lots. I still see people outside with nobody else within 100 feet, wearing a mask. Driving alone in their cars, masks on.
Local paper not long ago had pictures of high school groups that had gotten awards, cheerleders and such, all wearing masks. No reason whatsoever for a teenager to ever have to wear one to begin with, and there they are, all with these stupid looking face diapers on. Employees of most stores still required to wear masks, most places have mnot removed their signs saying masks are required.
Many people have just stopped wearing the things, but big business apparently has not let it go yet. They are not removing their signs, even though the official mandate has been lifted.
I will not wear one, and will not take a shot in the arm, they’ll have to drag me in and force me to take a vaccine. Over 5000 people have died from the vaccines, many more adverse reactions. I met a lady at a yard sale last weekend sick from her shot the day before. No way I will take one.
I agree with this, take the thing off May 1, or before, refuse to put another one on, enough is enough. Their “just two weeks to flatten the curve” has lasted way too long already. Over a year.
Georgia was set free this week!!!
We did not wear ours to Home Depot garden dept last week. Nobody said a word.
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