As a bearded man who’s been formally trained in the proper use of inhalation PPE, I’ve eschewed the use of masks since day 1. I worked in an asbestos remediation zone for 6 months wearing a respirator daily, and I still, to this day, worry that just one of those particles managed to get into my lungs. I laughed in the face of a physician’s assistant when they handed me a mask.
“Look at my face. This mask is useless.”
“It would make the doctor feel more comfortable if you’d wear it.”
I left that practice not 30 seconds later. Any doctor who claims they’re more comfortable around a bearded man with a loosely-fitted surgical mask is not practicing based on any scientific rigor.
Ignorance of reason is a thing. It is a practice being wholly enforced by a class of people who claim to be scientifically minded but have no interest in dissenting viewpoints. We’re not talking about the science of gravity; or the science of photosynthesis; or orbital mechanics; all things based in observable predictability and mathematical fact. We’re talking about virology and immunology, things that are taught at a very rudimentary level to 13 and 14 year old high school freshman who, at least when I was in school, understood how viruses worked in the body. Now everyone’s a scientist because they read what the CDC or the WHO said is fact without basis in predictable data. Now everyone’s a do-gooder with their masks and their shields and their hand sanitizer without a single sense to question what they’re being told and commit a single neuron of their brain to recall the lessons they learned in biology class.
History has taught us so many lessons. Tyranny never ends well for any of the people involved, yet here we are in a society where blind allegiance to a government entity is unquestioned and any dissent is devoid of fact or reason. The world has truly gone mad.
“History has taught us so many lessons”
The provax crowd show a stunning blindness to and/or ignorance of history.