[where's_the_Outrage?]

What this article gets to is that masking is not about science to end COVID, it is about community goals (aka Control).

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Science is what our feeeelings say it is.

[ThunderSleeps]

...the main benefit is not so much the masking itself, but the message to society that this wave is not yet over...

And by that, they mean "We need to continue our 'temporary' and 'emergency' powers."

This is just silly and insulting people. They might as well say "You can only buy meat on odd numbered days." Then a few weeks later say "Now you can only buy meat on even numbered days." Neither one reduces the amount of meat consumption. Similarly mask mandates, particularly arbitrary partial mandates like these, do nothing to slow or contain transmission.

These mandates are all about continuing to exert power and control, nothing else. I will be you good money certain "leaders" are literally sitting around asking each other (and their staffs) "What can we have them do, or not do, next?" It is all about power.

[traderrob6]

“Mask policies can still make sense, so long as they serve a community’s shared goals.”

And what precisely are those “shared goals”?

[butlerweave]

A lot of idiots think Mandates are Law and bow to the Mandate

[cuz1961]

serve a community’s shared goals.
Aka
For the greater good
Aka
By any means
Aka
Communism.

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Free folk don’t share squat with commies.

[Bob434]

Fauci stated the power day that we should be required to wear masks even with flu now. He is going full out justin on america this little fauci fascist.

The lefts tyranical fascist argument for mask mandates for colds and flues from,now now will be

“20-80,000 people die every year from the flu, and that is unacceptable when we have the means to prevent many of those deaths by simply requiring masks and vaccines. We all have a responsibility to protect our families and neighbors an people we meet. For far too long we looked,the other way whole 10”s of 1000”s people died every year needlessly”

I can hear it now- and I can see all the cucks in Hollywood promoting this asinine agenda while kissing fauci’s fertilizer factory

[Jim Noble]

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.

False premise, wrong conclusion.

[ConservativeInPA]

Communism doesn’t need to make sense, you useful idiots.

[Qui is]

The entire scamdemic and mandates have been about control, but half the world’s population is too dumb to figure that out.

If Bill Gates wants to kill half of the planet’s population, let him do so as long as it’s the idiots that have enabled this charade to continue.

[SaxxonWoods]

There must be an election in the near future.

[Vendome]

Nothing that children do has to make sense .... because they are children...

[From The Deer Stand]

Watching college basketball. Players on the court and on the bench don’t wear masks. Fans have to, although many have it below their nose. No science or logic in that collegiate rule.

[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”.

[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!