Posted on 05/17/2021 4:47:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
With the CDC’s announcement this past week that people vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer need to wear masks indoors, it kind of feels like the pandemic is over. Especially since a number of large national retailers, like Costco, Walmart/Sams, and Trader Joes, have all revised their mask policies accordingly. It seems like the coronafascists are finally starting to relax their grip.
Well, maybe. But don’t get too comfortable, yet. Our liberty is hardly secured just because the government wishes to appear magnanimous by acceding to both common sense and common practice around the country. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t been wearing a mask inside most places for months.
So if the coronafascists appear to be relaxing their grip, it’s only because they’re starting to lose their grip, and they’re crafty enough to see it. But if there’s one thing we know about fascists, it’s that they can never fully relinquish control. No doubt, they have something else up their sleeve.
That’s why it’s important to note that the key phrase in the new CDC guidance is "fully vaccinated people.” According to our masters, those are the only ones now allowed to go maskless inside. And just in case that wasn’t abundantly clear, President Biden* drove the point home in a creepy, dystopian tweet worthy of President Snow: “The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.”
This tweet raises several questions, including “What rule?” and “Whose rule?” President Biden* may think he’s a dictator, in his rare lucid moments, but he isn’t. He doesn’t get to make the rules. Neither does the CDC, for that matter, although they, too, clearly think they do.
The tweet is important, however, because it telegraphs the coronafascists’ strategy moving forward. The Biden* administration has been justly criticized, even on the left, for its abysmal messaging on the vaccines. By telling people that, even after being vaccinated, they must continue to live in fear—masking up everywhere in perpetuity, continuing to “social distance,” avoiding gatherings of more than a few people—they succeeded only in disincentivizing the very behavior they supposedly desired.
Perhaps finally recognizing their mistake, they abruptly pivoted to “If you ‘get the shot,’ you can take off the mask.” The problem they now face is obvious: How will they know who is vaccinated and who isn’t? That is a question many on the left are asking in alarm, including numerous blue-check Twitter bed-wetters blubbering about how they still don’t “feel safe” because so many unvaccinated Neanderthals will probably stop wearing masks, anyway.
Well, yeah. That is exactly what will happen. And it is exactly what should happen. As Townhall’s own Scott Morefied and many others have been documenting for a year or more, there never was any high-level scientific evidence that masks were effective against this or any other respiratory virus. In fact, all the best evidence (including 12 randomized controlled trials) indicates otherwise. We never needed the government’s permission to take off our masks; we just needed the will to do so. With any luck, the CDC’s latest about-face will strengthen our collective resolve.
But what about those among us who still don’t have official permission—the great unwashed, er, unvaccinated? Allow me to echo the blue-check lament: How in the heck is anyone going to know whether you’re vaccinated or not, unless you volunteer that information? So don’t volunteer it—even if you are. It is literally no one’s business but your own. If the vaccinated are protected, why should they care, except to satisfy their fascist urge?
But then, fascists are always gonna fascist. What they have up their sleeve, of course, is some form of “vaccine passport.” They fantasize nightly about parading around in their jackboots and epaulets, demanding to see our papers. That dystopian nightmare must be resisted at every turn, by keeping up a steady stream of emails and social media posts aimed at our national, state and local leaders, by organizing protests and petitions, and ultimately by simply refusing to comply.
In most states, signing vaccine passports into law will require a difficult and protracted legislative battle, one I believe the left will ultimately lose. And even if they do in some states get their way, I believe the Supreme Court will strike down the resulting laws as unconstitutional, which they certainly would be. But I’m not 100 percent certain of any of that. We must remain vigilant.
Meanwhile, it will be up to retailers and other business owners to determine who gets to parade mask-free around their establishment and who doesn’t—and I doubt most of them have any stomach for the task. Several have already signaled that they have no intention of playing vaccine police, nor should they. (Note that many of them also refused to play mask police, and rightly so.)
The upshot, for now at least—and hopefully for the foreseeable future—is that you can go about your daily life unhampered by a piece of cloth over your breathing holes. And in the unlikely event anyone asks you about your vaccination status, regardless of whether you’ve had the shot or not, just tell them, “It’s none of your business.” Because it isn’t.
Yes but they are even more afraid of people thinking they refused the vax. The mask is merely a virtue signal. Take away the virtue and it is meaningless.
I saw one person wearing one outside at the duck pond and he is “simple”.
“When I see people masked, I assume they refused the jab.”
Not here. The assumption is they’re a scared Democrat.
They are even saying it’s a political thing. From Hogg to Pelosi, they intend to keep wearing and keep pushing political face diapers.
Here is East TN, Kroger is next to a marxist university, and it is LOADED with leftist Karens...they make your business THEIR business. I can’t be bothered, so I shop elsewhere.
I assume the exact opposite. People who love freedom reject the masks and the jab.
Very well written article. I’m actually thinking of printing it out and handing it to any busybodies that should ask me if I’ve been vaccinated or not.
Thanks for posting.
That’s a private matter.
If you are working for some companies, and you don't "volunteer" that information, they check the "no" box. It's binary. You're asked every day you show up, did you get the shot? Anything but yes is no. And right now, if it's no, you keep wearing that unhealthy mask. Once a more efficient system evolves, you might find yourself out of a job. Already some people are not welcome on their college campus if they can't show vax papers.
It's all about liability, which is a lot more scary than covid.
And how about all of us who were “fully vaccinated” by actually having Covid-19? After all, research proves having had the virus is more effective immunity-wise that 2 of the 4 vaccines.
Waiting for CDC to deal with this.
I carry “proof” of my “vaccination” on my phone - a photo of the document certifying my having the virus..........
Anyone know of the percentage of Americans who have had the virus like my wife and I? I think it’s huge......(or is that “hugh”????)
Looks like about 33 million of us have had it, or about 10% of the population.
A significant number.
In my car left state it was announced fully vaccinated did. it have to wear masks. For the rest it is recommended not required. No questions no vaccine passports no hysteria. Just moving on to a more normal situation.
Two words, seven letters, last word is "off".
Are you kidding? The CDC is irrovacably politically compromised.
Remember their director tearfully saying she had a feeling of "impending doom" a few weeks ago?
The director of the CDC is a female who runs the agency according to her "feelings". Now she feels the masks should come off? She is an idiot. We are being led by fools and idiots.
Sometimes I get tempted to just print up a whole bunch of cards off of Google, and leave stacks of them in parking lots at Walmarts and grocery stores around this area.
Yep, it sure is. Went to my local Home Depot yesterday to get some gardening tools I needed. Walked into the store and noticed the "Masks Required To Enter Store" were all gone.
Greeter waved hello and I stopped and asked "what happened to the masks required signs?" Her response was they were all removed and it was up to people to decide for themselves whether to wear a mask or not. (I was not and I was prepared to say "the President and the CDC said they aren't needed!" just for giggles.)
Fully 90% or more of the people in Home Depot were still wearing masks. It was actually funny as I walked down an aisle to get to what I needed people either turned and went the other way or people parted like the red sea for me as I walked their way. One woman with a young child saw me coming, grabbed her child out of my way and then shielded it.
One thing I did notice was that most of the others not wearing masks were ... women.
I dunno what's wrong with these people. Unless you're wearing an N95 mask that's sealed perfectly to your face, masks do not work to stop the virus. All these idiots walking around with neck gaiters, cloth masks and those stupid "ear loop" masks just look stupid to me. Sheep. They may as well be bleating too.
I just got back from my local grocery store. They still have big signs saying about, “Local Ordinance - Masks Required,” at their entrance.
And for the first time since this all started...I spent $80+ without a mask on my ugly mug.
I was a bit apprehensive while shopping. But nobody approached me. Nobody said a word. I didn’t even get a dirty look.
It was almost similar to when I first walked around in public with a pistol on my hip -as I was carrying during this morning’s shopping.
This government inflicted conditioning is going to take time to abandon.
THat’s how I see it. I have very little respect for people who choose to wear a mask. And the relationship damage is quite permanent when they are actually people within my circle of friends. I just see them differently.
I believe it is inevitable that you must wear a mask now will quickly become show us your papers citizen.
While Gov. Walz (D-idiot) ended his mask mandates in Minnesota last Friday, many place I went this weekend still had the mask required sign on the front door and the brainwashed still wore their masks like true believers in a cult wearing magic amulets. Some businesses have said they will continue with mask and social distancing despite the end of the mandate. I think these businesses will soon find their customers going elsewhere.
Still refusing the jab. Still not wearing a mask.
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