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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: Sans-Culotte

They aren’t scared. They are upset that everyone else doesn’t have to wear a mask. These are the people that loved the virtue signal and hated anyone who didn’t wear one.

I know some of these people. Ending the mask mandate has robbed them of their joy. First they lost Trump (the target of their rage) and now The Precious is gone. Under that mask, they are angry.


41 posted on 06/01/2021 7:56:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Kaslin; All

‘The People’s Republic of Dane County’ lifts their mask mandate tomorrow, BUT Wisconsin will still have pockets of little tin-pot dictators demanding you still mask up when in their enclave.

However, you gotta have your vax or you still have to mask!

*Rolleyes*

Yeah. No.


42 posted on 06/01/2021 8:33:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Kaslin

The big change here came two weekends ago. That’s when Krogers and Home Depot announced they were dropping the masks for the vaccinated, which effectively means everyone. Smaller businesses seemed to see this as a signal and followed suit.

The last shoe to drop will be the ending of masks, officially, not just for the vaccinated but for everyone. This will probably depend on the CDC guidance. For political reasons I expect the CDC to cling to its recommendation for the unvaccinated to stay masked until the bitter end. Meaning the official but unenforced divide between vaccinated/unvaccinated will persist for a while longer.


43 posted on 06/01/2021 8:58:01 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Kaslin

Maybe vestiges of a style thing with young hipsters. I’ve only seen a couple of them wearing masks, and both were outdoors. A few others were service employees, who are required to continue wearing masks if not vaccinated. Most employees at the local Walmart are apparently vaccinated and no longer wearing masks.

On vaccinations, over 60% of the population over the age of 12 has received at least one shot; 168,356,985 people as of yesterday in the U.S.A. 85.9% of people over the age of 65 have received at least one shot.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations


44 posted on 06/01/2021 4:37:48 PM PDT by familyop
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To: House Atreides
"On Sunday I went to Costco and was among the very small minority who were maskless."

Wow!

45 posted on 06/01/2021 4:47:03 PM PDT by familyop
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To: House Atreides

Nationally, the case number appears to be lower than the number of hospitalizations (see bar graphs). It’s low.

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en


46 posted on 06/01/2021 4:51:32 PM PDT by familyop
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To: FreedomPoster

I watched the INDY 500 race this weekend and was hollering at the TV at the stupid drivers and crews all running around with masks on. Doing TV interviews with masks on...speaking 4-words then tugging on the mask that always slips.

They all looked like fools...150k people in the stands and no one wore a mask.


47 posted on 06/01/2021 5:05:22 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Nothing dies harder than a lie that people want to believe)
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To: bray

We “play God” all the time.

Triage is “playing God.”


48 posted on 06/01/2021 5:32:45 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: Kaslin

Still seeing people walking across a parking lot masked, driving by themselves masked, and in different regions of my state the majority in stores are either masked or unmasked.


49 posted on 06/01/2021 5:39:39 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: FormerFRLurker

Take a look at the research starting to come out.


50 posted on 06/01/2021 8:53:19 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: LS

What research would that be? And does it mean I have to stop wearing my sunglasses? My husband doesn’t mind and I don’t think squinting is a particularly attractive look.


51 posted on 06/02/2021 7:27:04 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: House Atreides
Indeed, my own wife, who has been fully vaccinated, and does lean to the left, is still sympathetic to stores and organizations who request masks. She will remove it for work, and church, where the majority of people do not wear them anymore. But at places like Target, which has a sign that recommends masks, she will comply.

Having been married for thirty years, and expecting to remain in that marriage, I have chosen not to make a big deal of her reluctance to toss the mask. However, I have made it very clear that I am not going to pretend that masks are anything more than a type of psychological manipulation, and have been from the outset of the pandemic.

52 posted on 06/02/2021 7:46:33 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: ConservativeInPA

The enemy has very large numbers, as we can observe in our daily lives.

Mask wearers abound.


53 posted on 06/02/2021 7:52:19 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: House Atreides

Let the Marxists be masked so we may all observe their presence.


54 posted on 06/02/2021 7:55:05 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: Yardstick

“…The last shoe to drop will be the ending of masks, officially, not just for the vaccinated but for everyone. This will probably depend on the CDC guidance. For political reasons I expect the CDC to cling to its recommendation for the unvaccinated to stay masked until the bitter end….”
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They are desperately clinging to the 100% masking of our school children. They TREAT SCHOOLCHILDREN LIKE HOSTAGES! That’s UNFORGIVABLE to me.


55 posted on 06/02/2021 9:36:29 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: FormerFRLurker

Start with my book, “All Thumbs,” which does a kind of social history of digital, but there is a lot in there about Japan’s problems and the “hermetically sealed.”


56 posted on 06/02/2021 4:52:23 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: jughandle
Still seeing people walking across a parking lot masked, driving by themselves masked, and in different regions of my state the majority in stores are either masked or unmasked.

So which is the majority masked or unmasked?

57 posted on 06/02/2021 5:46:06 PM PDT by X-FID (Trump 2020)
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To: Macoozie

“In some places, the law requires masks for the unvaxed.”

I don’t recall hearing that any legislature passed any law about masks. The mask thing isn’t a law. It’s a tool for the government to control the masses and mess with their minds.


58 posted on 06/02/2021 5:55:58 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Faith, not fear. Faith, not faintheartedness.)
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To: Alberta's Child

“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”

Absolutely. They’re on a site that has the word, “free”, in it, yet they jumped on the tyranny bandwagon. Hard to believe.


59 posted on 06/02/2021 5:58:31 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Faith, not fear. Faith, not faintheartedness.)
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To: X-FID

It depends what part of the state, urban areas most everyone still has them on. Recently developed suburban parts maybe a small handful still have them on.


60 posted on 06/03/2021 4:44:52 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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