Mask Mandates Don’t Need to Make Sense

The Atlantic ^ | Feb 20, 2022 | Rachel Gutman

[where's_the_Outrage?]

When the mayor of Washington, D.C., announced changes to the city’s mask mandate last week, spit hit the fan. As of March 1, District residents will need to cover up in order to attend school, go to a library, or ride in a taxi. But gyms, sports arenas, concert venues, and houses of worship—you know, all the places where people like to breathe hard or sing and shout in close proximity—will be facial free-for-alls.

If the goal of mask policies is to reduce transmission of the coronavirus as much as possible, then D.C.’s new rules are difficult to reason out. Why should children, who are generally at low risk of severe disease, have to mask while sitting quietly in class when their more vulnerable elders can sing, unmasked, in church? It seems arbitrary, inconsistent, absurd.....

“From my perspective, the main benefit is not so much the masking itself, but the message to society that this wave is not yet over,” Dowdy told me.....

“I think that people have this expectation that everything has to be perfect, as far as how the logic works together,” Kirk Sell said. But no mandate is ever going to be perfectly consistent, and that’s okay. Mask policies can still make sense, so long as they serve a community’s shared goals.

[GingisK]

That is a perceptive way of looking at this.

[joma89]

Leftists demand the right to control everyone. This article is just manipulation to try to convince the weak minded that it does not matter what they force you to do because leftists have “good intentions”.

[Openurmind]

Yep, it is psychological to remind folks they are owned.

[glennaro]

This topic of Masking has nothing to do with science; it has only to do with deep-seated superstition brought on by irrational primitive fear ... and of course continuation of the widespread practice of a dirty, nasty, unhealthy bad habit.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Masks are a symbol of submission to affirmative-action bureaucrats.

[glennaro]

"affirmative-action, unelected bureaucrats" at that!
Cheers!

[glennaro]

Oh, and all this talk of bureaucrats reminds me of a task I must complete before it gets dark out here ... set a few more rat traps to rid my beautiful home of a few "wayward critters".
Later, friend ...

[mewzilla]

They aren’t masks.

They’re muzzles.

[Fledermaus]

Duh! Capt. Obvious pay her a visit?

[lightman]

It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the 'science'”:

Masks are:

1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!