Posted on 06/03/2021 7:17:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
'When you say, ‘Just wear the mask,’ you clearly have no understanding of early childhood development,' Kate Bossi told CBS Boston after her arrest.
Kate Bossi and Jessica Williams aren’t your typical fire-breathing-revolutionaries. Bossi is a Sunday school teacher and a grandmother. Williams is all of 5’2” and has two school-age children. These two New Hampshire women join a growing number of ordinary Americans confronting draconian and confusing COVID diktats still imposed by governments and businesses.
Police arrested Bossi at a public meeting of the Timberlane Regional School Board on May 20 because she wasn’t wearing a mask. In a video posted to YouTube, Bossi’s daughter, Jackie Wydola, can be heard saying, “Mom, I love you,” as three masked Plaistow, N.H., police officers loom over Bossi and force her arms behind her back.
Last month, the chair of the Governor Wentworth Regional School Board called the police on Williams because Williams was sitting by herself in a school auditorium unmasked. Wolfeboro Police Chief Dean Rondeau responded to the call but didn’t arrest Williams.
“I don’t think a judge would look kindly on removing a member of the public from a public meeting for not wearing a mask,” Rondeau said.
“My constitutional and statutory right to attend a public meeting of a public body supersedes the school district’s ability to force me to wear particular articles of clothing against my will,” Williams said in an interview, from an outside table at the Lone Wolfe Brewing Company in Wolfeboro. It’s May, a day after the Centers for Disease Control abruptly reversed course and acknowledged the obvious: vaccinated people don’t have to wear masks. Yet a man and woman at the next table, about 12 feet away, were wearing masks while they waited for their food.
“It’s absolutely insane,” says Don Bolduc, a retired brigadier general and the only Republican currently in the U.S. Senate race to unseat Democrat incumbent Maggie Hassan. “The whole idea that you can think it’s smart for people, especially children, to be wearing a mask, rebreathing the carbon dioxide that your body is supposed to be expelling. It makes no sense.”
Even though a statewide mask mandate expired on April 16, a confusing hodgepodge of local and private regulations remains. Along with mixed messaging from the state, these arbitrary restrictions continue to cause conflict among friends, neighbors, and families in communities across New Hampshire.
Some cities and towns, including Concord and Nashua, still have mask mandates, and the majority of stores in the resort town of Wolfeboro still require customers to wear masks. The hardware store had a new sign handwritten in large Sharpie letters, reading: “STILL REQUIRING MASKS.”
The owner of a thrift store told a customer recently she would continue to require masks until at least October. The Water Village Community Church in nearby Ossipee has a marquee announcing its 9:30 a.m. service that reads, “Always Remember, Please Wear Masks.”
One local resident, Abbey Lawrence, recently wrote a letter to the editor of Wolfeboro’s hometown paper, the Granite State News:
Unfortunately, face masks do not do what many people think they do. Last May the CDC published a meta-analysis of mask studies, and concluded: ‘Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.’ Masks that are of dubious effectiveness against influenza can be no more effective against the coronavirus.
The paper rejected her letter. When she asked editor Brendan Berube why he hadn’t published it, he replied, “I do not feel that it is appropriate for our publications to provide a forum for claims about the ineffectiveness of face masks.”
In Tuftonboro last weekend, I watched a woman wearing a mask, alone in her car, as she pulled into the town dump to throw her trash into an outdoor compactor. On a beautiful spring day at a local garden shop, another woman walked through the outdoor nursery carrying a masked infant in her arms, with two young children, also masked, by her side. Back in Wolfeboro, five or six people all wore masks as they waited in line to buy fish from the back of a seafood truck in a parking lot.
Mask confusion isn’t limited to New Hampshire. Dr. Anthony Fauci insisted in congressional testimony last month it wasn’t theater for him to wear two masks even though he is fully vaccinated. But this month he admitted vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks. “I didn’t want to look like I was giving mixed signals,” he told George Stephanopoulos.
Perhaps Tattooing the Lot Number of the Vaccine given to the Person on their Forearm would help.
Probably these are the police that need to be DEFUNDED, or removed from office their authorities. Geesh.
In New Jersey Der Governor finally lifted the mask mandates but 95% of people are still wearing them. There’s a strong principle of behavior called “social proof” which basically says that we see what others are doing and then we feel it’s important to do similar, even it it makes no sense. Everyone is wearing masks so it MUST be the thing to do! Well someone needs to show them that it’s okay to not wear them, and a few of us are ignoring the fearful looks of the sheep as we walk around maskless, perhaps influencing them in a better direction.
If a police department has so much time on its hands that they can use 3 cops to arrest a 5’2” grandma for not wearing a mask, they need to be defunded.
These cops need to be arrested and charged with kidnapping.
The mask mandates are eased in Illinois too, but we still see people alone in their cars wearing them, and people walking and running outside, nobody around, wearing them. Pathetic.
Unfortunately, none of these officers were killed making the arrest.
Police in rich towns are basically private security who will do whatever tptb want.
Our boys in blue doing the politicians bidding without question.
This is the dust mask I own because the paper/fiber type N95 masks don't fit my thin face and always leave stripes of dust where it gets around the mask.
Even this mask is not approved for infectious disease. It's a "particulate" mask. Ask yourself, What do they wear in bio-labs like the one in Wuhan?
There’s a strong principle of behavior called “social proof”
AKA being part of the flock of sheep.
Perhaps "To Protect and To Serve" would be better fulfilled if they turned their attitudes onto themselves and their fellow bullies.
None of them are willing to risk their pensions. They would load people into cattle cars if the mayors ordered them to do it.
I saw a deputy make a traffic stop yesterday. He got out of his pickup and dutifully put on his mask as he walked towards the stopped vehicle. They have the police controlled too.
There was a state trooper (Oregon), in civilian cloths, who got in hot water when he said F Kate Brown (governor) when told to wear a mask.
Yup. There’s a very interesting book called “Influence” by Robert Cialdini, a sociologist, on cues that subconsciously cause people to react in ways they might not otherwise do. It’s been read by many ad firms for sure, and they use the techniques. Two that I have embraced:
1) In an emergency you cannot just plead with a crowd to help, everyone will prefer to not get involved and assume someone else will do it. You need to make eye contact with someone and say ‘You! please help!’ and they will very often actually help.
2) if you need to cut in a line you have to ask people and tell them you have some urgent need and they will let you. The actual example they studied was students waiting to make copies and if they asked generically they were always turned down. But if they if they used to absurd request “Can I get in front, I need to make copies” people agreed to let them cut the line. Giving a reason, any reason, will influence people to want to help. I actually don’t use this to cut in line, I do use it to help get buy in on decisions I make by always explaining to my team WHY I made the decision I did and generally they respect that, even if it’s a tough decision.
All of this relies on the idea that people are sheep on some level. We react to stimuli in ways that are deeply encoded into us by biology, culture, and values.
What happened to all the sheeplike mask wearing fearpers that were so common around here last year?
Have you ever wondered who they protect and serve? It's not spelled out, but based on empirical evidence it appears that they protect and serve the government.
They still pop up from time to time, but since more states have been dropping or relaxing mask mandates they have been focusing on vaccines.
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