Wearing masks in an actual emergency – last spring and summer, for example – does not, conversely, create such problems as the brain is able to internally justify the situation
Thats a reach.
Masking is/was nothing more than kabuki theater.
Even my doc asserted “We know masks work...” Really? Yeah maybe in trained staff like in a hospital but not in the great public wild.
Because of the manipulation of actual science either thru a generous granting of ignorance as a reason or a more cynical medical fascism commandeering the discussion, we do not know how many people are actually dead from this disease, we do not know if there are other treatments for it such as Invermectin and we do not know just how the so called vaccines actually work long term.
Now to be told that you WILL comply and we don’t want to hear you anymore...well, that hesitancy just became a hard no, with a GFYS tossed in.
For a narrative of why this is not a vaccine, the gain of function crowd’s stated objective, and medical facts about masks and social distancing, described as informative and “likely the most unvarnished truth that gets posted to these threads,” see reply 9 on this FR post.
As a bearded man who’s been formally trained in the proper use of inhalation PPE, I’ve eschewed the use of masks since day 1. I worked in an asbestos remediation zone for 6 months wearing a respirator daily, and I still, to this day, worry that just one of those particles managed to get into my lungs. I laughed in the face of a physician’s assistant when they handed me a mask.
“Look at my face. This mask is useless.”
“It would make the doctor feel more comfortable if you’d wear it.”
I left that practice not 30 seconds later. Any doctor who claims they’re more comfortable around a bearded man with a loosely-fitted surgical mask is not practicing based on any scientific rigor.
Ignorance of reason is a thing. It is a practice being wholly enforced by a class of people who claim to be scientifically minded but have no interest in dissenting viewpoints. We’re not talking about the science of gravity; or the science of photosynthesis; or orbital mechanics; all things based in observable predictability and mathematical fact. We’re talking about virology and immunology, things that are taught at a very rudimentary level to 13 and 14 year old high school freshman who, at least when I was in school, understood how viruses worked in the body. Now everyone’s a scientist because they read what the CDC or the WHO said is fact without basis in predictable data. Now everyone’s a do-gooder with their masks and their shields and their hand sanitizer without a single sense to question what they’re being told and commit a single neuron of their brain to recall the lessons they learned in biology class.
History has taught us so many lessons. Tyranny never ends well for any of the people involved, yet here we are in a society where blind allegiance to a government entity is unquestioned and any dissent is devoid of fact or reason. The world has truly gone mad.