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Stockholm Syndrome over Mask Wearing
American Thinker.com ^ | June 1, 2021 | Brian C. Joondeph M.D

Posted on 06/01/2021 4:10:33 AM PDT by Kaslin

Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon where “hostages or abuse victims bond with their captors and abusers.” This bonding can occur over days, weeks, or months of captivity and abuse. Rather than being terrorized by their captors, hostages sympathize with them, developing positive feelings, sharing common goals and causes, and essentially falling in love with their captors.

The story behind the Stockholm Syndrome is a 1973 six-day hostage event in a Swedish bank. By the second day, “the hostages were on a first-name basis with their captors, and they started to fear the police more than their abductors.” By the end of the hostage crisis, “the convicts and hostages embraced, kissed and shook hands.”

A modern-day version of the Stockholm Syndrome is playing out after over a year of COVID captivity. Americans have been held hostage by medical czars like Dr Anthony Fauci, totalitarian governors named Cuomo, Newsom, Whitmer, Murphy, and Wolf, and big media, including cable news giants CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.

Americans have been held hostage in their homes for months, told not to wear masks, then to wear one, then two, now none. We were assured that that a BLM protest of thousands is perfectly safe while a family wedding, funeral, or a Trump rally is a super spreader event. An experimental, non-FDA approved vaccine is being mandated for everyone, including children at extremely low risk from getting sick from COVID, yet at the government agencies pushing vaccinations, they don’t know how many of their own employees have said no to the vaccine, perhaps as many as half.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: antivaxxers; covid; hyperbole; hysteria; masks; stockholmsyndrome
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To: alephnull

I’ve never been vaccinated, will never be vaccinated, and I rarely wore a mask (Costco is the exception, so I just avoided going there).

So, for me now it all just seems more like a normal world.

Our church FINALLY stopped with the mask nonsense last week. Our pastor was always a germaphobe anyway, so it got so silly we lost half our members. Many are now coming back, though.


21 posted on 06/01/2021 5:34:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Cecily

Instead of rationalizing the behaviour of freaks, how about just identify the “problem” up front? The reason this happens is because the freaks run the government and education establishment.


22 posted on 06/01/2021 5:36:55 AM PDT by gr8eman (The "R" next to Snake Plisken's name stands for "Retired")
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To: House Atreides
I don’t know about all the rest of the country but here, in the belly of the DemocRAT beast in central Maryland, I see the phenomenon. On Sunday I went to Costco and was among the very small minority who were maskless.

Here in Texas, I went into a Kroger that had a sign reading "Masks not required for those who are fully vaccinated". Aside from myself and maybe 4 others, everybody had masks on. I thought I could see fear in the eyes of the masked.

23 posted on 06/01/2021 5:44:44 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: FreedomPoster

You mean Governor Stacy Abrams dpesnt make y’all wear masks ???


24 posted on 06/01/2021 5:48:21 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Sans-Culotte
Here in Texas, I went into a Kroger that had a sign reading "Masks not required for those who are fully vaccinated". Aside from myself and maybe 4 others, everybody had masks on. I thought I could see fear in the eyes of the masked.

I see the opposite. I see about 20% of customers wearing masks in a supermarket that a week ago had mandatory 100%. Outside of the fearbros, I don't know if the maskless trust the experimental shots or know it's all bull.

25 posted on 06/01/2021 5:52:52 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Kaslin

Bttt


26 posted on 06/01/2021 5:52:53 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: cyclotic

You are SO right!

There is not a legislature in America that has passed any mask laws.

It has all been done by the Executive branch at the Federal,State and Local levels.
The will of the people has not been reflected in any of this.

And we let it happen.


27 posted on 06/01/2021 5:53:35 AM PDT by TheRobb7 ("Patriots don't negotiate the terms of their enslavement"--JimRob)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I’m hoping the election law changes put an end to any thoughts of governor Stacey Abrams.


28 posted on 06/01/2021 5:58:21 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: alephnull

You talk about your generous Governor without a hint of sarcasm. Scary.


29 posted on 06/01/2021 6:07:29 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: Kharis13

I would add that one of the most disappointing things I’ve seen in recent years was the astonishing number of FREEPERS who bought into the Branch Covidian B.S. from Day 1 last year.


30 posted on 06/01/2021 6:17:48 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: House Atreides

Went for some breakfast down in Charles County, Maryland. The “masks required” sign had been removed. Enjoying my breakfast, along with several other maskless patrons, I noticed a woman wearing her mask even while eating. She’d quickly pull the mask down to take a bite or a sip, then just as rapidly pull it back up.

All I could do was shake my head.


31 posted on 06/01/2021 6:21:17 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Masks are safety blankets to the feeble minded)
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To: Kaslin

Spent most of my weekend in Manhattan, where the vast majority of people were wearing masks OUTSIDE. Not only that, many businesses were still requiring males inside. Went outside the city to Roosevelt Field mall in suburbia and I was only a one of a handful of people who didn’t mask.


32 posted on 06/01/2021 6:31:43 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Tolerance Sucks Rocks :" More like a cult"..

True that - the submission is almost condition in which "the hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors during captivity, almost a religious relationship."
In a religious order, we would call them nowadays 'Fanatical Zealots',..a fanatical partisan.
Yeah, I have met some, .. people that I would have previously considered dear friends, now they remain friends but not so dear, but I have now reservations about their friendship.
Be wary, and aware, as personality incongruity occurs and manifests itself in small ways.

33 posted on 06/01/2021 6:44:58 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Tolerance Sucks Rocks :" More like a cult"..

Small correction- but important last statement .
True that - the submission is almost condition in which "the hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors during captivity, almost a religious relationship."
In a religious order, we would call them nowadays 'Fanatical Zealots',..a fanatical partisan.
Yeah, I have met some, .. people that I would have previously considered dear friends, now they remain friends but not so dear, but I have now reservations about their friendship.
Be wary, and aware, as personality incongruity occurs and manifests itself in small ways.
Better to diagnose the and relationship condition now, rather than wait until the SHTF ! OOps !

34 posted on 06/01/2021 6:46:23 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Kaslin

Not me.


35 posted on 06/01/2021 6:49:36 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Here in my little corner of north Texas (between Ft Worth and Dallas) same thing, signs on stores saying you don’t have to wear a mask if you have been vaccinated. Most folks I see in the stores are still wearing them (what a joy it was to finally enter Kroger, Sams, Walmart, etc) without one! But my local branch of Chase bank is still making you wear one. And so is my employer, a chain restaurant. Our CUSTOMERS don’t have to wear them anymore but myself and fellow employees still HAVE to wear them. It’s maddening. I am so over the mask business!


36 posted on 06/01/2021 6:54:16 AM PDT by Hurst Mama
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To: Hurst Mama

I was up in Maine recently, hardly any mask wearing even there, It’s OVER.


37 posted on 06/01/2021 6:56:54 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Hurst Mama

In the place where I work we have been “masks not required” for two weeks. I went to Sam’s a week ago and did not see a sign one way or the other, but everybody wore masks so I wore mine. I haven’t had occasion to go to Costco yet to see what their policy is. Our church is “masks not required” as well.


38 posted on 06/01/2021 6:59:27 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: House Atreides

To compare: I went to Costco here in the Houston suburbs the first weekend after they ended their mask rule a couple weeks ago. Roughly 60% masked. I went again on Saturday, maybe 30% masked.

I work in downtown Houston, which has a network of pedestrian tunnels with food courts, etc. linking most of the office buildings. I haven’t worn a mask in them since the governor ended the mandate on 3/10. I did not see one other unmasked face in the tunnels until late April. Now, it’s about 50-50.

So we have less of it in Texas, but we certainly have some of it, at least in the cities. Probably much less in rural Texas.

One side-note: The number of people coming in to work in the office buildings in downtown Houston has EXPLODED in the last month. Judging by the tunnels and the parking garage, it is almost at pre-Covid levels. It looks like “work from home” isn’t going to be a permanent thing after all, at least for lawyers, bankers, traders, and executives. Predictions of the death of commercial real estate have been premature, just as they were after 9/11.


39 posted on 06/01/2021 7:21:42 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: LS

I suspect much of this has to do with the masks-—that when you cannot see people’s full faces, they are dehumanized, but so are you.

I guarantee you that the sunglasses that I was wearing long before the pandemic are far more "dehumanizing" than a mask, yet no one has a problem with sunglasses. It is the eyes that are the window to the soul.

Japan's problems can be traced back to the end of WWII. As in Europe Japan's toughest men were killed off in the war, leaving behind a pool of less vigorous specimens. Add that to a culture that prefers no social interaction at all over any kind of awkwardness and you get today's Japanese.

40 posted on 06/01/2021 7:33:42 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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