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CJ ^ | April 18,2022 | John Tierney

Posted on 04/19/2022 6:07:52 AM PDT by Hojczyk

The pandemic has eased, but not the compulsion of many Americans to cover their faces. Fully vaccinated adults are still wearing masks on their solitary walks outdoors, and officials have been enforcing mask mandates on airline passengers and on some city-dwellers and students. (Though today’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, declaring the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation unlawful, comes as welcome news.) Maskaholics in the press are calling for permanent masking on trains, planes, and buses.

High school students in Seattle staged a protest demanding that a mask mandate be reinstated, and psychologists now deal with the anxieties of children who don’t want their classmates to see their faces. They’re suffering from “mask dependency,” as this psychological affliction is termed in Japan, where a long tradition of mask-wearing during flu season has left some individuals afraid at any time to expose their faces in public.

It’s a difficult addiction to overcome, according to the Japanese therapists who specialize in treating it—but a simple remedy might help some maskaholics. It’s a graph that should be required viewing for everyone still wearing a mask and every public official or journalist who still insists that mask mandates “control the spread.”


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To: rlmorel

It is interesting that early on in this charade I looked up abstracts on the NIH site regarding masks and what I found largely debunked mask-wearing by the public.

Some months later I went back and did that again. It appeared that some of those abstracts had been scrubbed and there was a plethora of ones promoting the efficacy of masks.

This is just my observation. It would be interesting had someone run a serious analysis then and now.


21 posted on 04/19/2022 6:38:45 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: bert

I have had the opportunity to be up close and personal with a variety of types of nedical care of late.

What I have seen in EVERY setting I have been in has curled my hair.

I have even had to have words with healthcare professionals, plural, about not touching anyone or anything else after messing with their muzzles until they have washed/sanitized their hands.

Because masks are fomites, aren’t they.

And depending on the healthcare setting I’m in, the coof is the LAST thing I’m worried about contracting while getting care.


22 posted on 04/19/2022 6:38:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Hojczyk

23 posted on 04/19/2022 6:38:57 AM PDT by null and void (Replace No Bail with Mo' Jail. The certainty, not the possibility, of punishment keeps 'em in line.)
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To: Allegra; mlitefan

I have found this aspect of all this both disconcerting and depressing.

The Power of Fear.


24 posted on 04/19/2022 6:39:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Hojczyk

Time for a maskectomy. We see them at the bus stops waiting for the bus, riding bikes, hiking, driving........... Butt, if it makes them feel better, meh. Just quit tossing them on the ground. Instead put them in the many bright red hazardous waste disposal receptacles that are............ There aren’t any? Butt, butt, butt..................


25 posted on 04/19/2022 6:45:52 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

This is 100% completely in line with the way they operate.

It is Orwellian. Throw those studies down The Memory Hole.

My guess is that you can still find those, and they will say with a straight face that they aren’t being suppressed.

But what they probably have done is the equivalent of what Google does when they don’t want you to see something. They put them on the tenth page of results in, or completely submerge them in the noise of returns.


26 posted on 04/19/2022 6:45:58 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Hojczyk

Stupid masks couldn’t stop cooties!


27 posted on 04/19/2022 6:46:33 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Hojczyk
If you add up all the numbers on those two lines, you find that the mask mandates made zero difference.

You know what else made zero difference? EVERY DAMNED THING THEY FORCED ON US: masks, lockdowns, "social distancing", bogus poison "vaccines", and big, stupid sheets of plexiglas hanging in the air all over the place.

And do you know why? Because this entire "COVID" pandemic was a lie and a fraud from day one. The average age of "COVID victims" is 83, and that average includes all the younger people the hospitals killed with remdesivir and ventilators. Without those unecessary, medical-malpractice induced deaths, the average age of "COVID victims" would be even higher.

Fun fact: average life expectancy in the U.S. is 79. Let that sink in.

28 posted on 04/19/2022 6:47:43 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon

CoupFlu was NEVER about public health.


29 posted on 04/19/2022 6:48:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Hojczyk

As long as it is optional, let the maskaholics continue wearing their useless sheep muzzles. They’ll just keep getting dumber and dumber, as they continue to breathe their own C02. And they’ll just keep getting more and more pathetically fearful and timid. Useless, brainless, spineless drones, wimpering through the pitiful life that they cling to so dearly.


30 posted on 04/19/2022 6:52:25 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: rlmorel

If God wanted us to have a mask on our face he would have created a permanent one when we were born.

He did create an immune system which can be destroyed by human meddling.


31 posted on 04/19/2022 6:54:37 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: mewzilla
Wearing a mask does serve a purpose: That the wearer is publically announcing that they are irrationally frightened and irretrievably stupid ... oh, and that they're a coward ... and that they're only fooling themselves that it provides any protection at all against a respiratory virus.

Reality is often cruel to the weak of mind and body.

32 posted on 04/19/2022 6:54:51 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: Hojczyk

I am fully expecting dozens if not hundreds of incidents on airline flights of unhinged Karens attacking unmasked passengers.


33 posted on 04/19/2022 6:55:13 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
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To: goodnesswins

The only reason for mask mandates was to de-humanize the citizens. More effort to break their spirit pre-election.


34 posted on 04/19/2022 6:56:58 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: glennaro

Masks can be useful. I know folks with asthma and hay fever who wear them to reduce their exposure to particulates, pollen, etc.

I don’t assume everyone wearing a mask is a moron.

Just anyone who thinks you can prevent contracting an airborne respiratory virus that way.


35 posted on 04/19/2022 6:58:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: mewzilla

“I don’t assume everyone wearing a mask is a moron.”

I don’t, either. My rule of thumb is that if people who wore masks pre-Covid and are still wearing them, that’s cool. The others .. . they’re idiots and morons. They’re easy to identify at church.


36 posted on 04/19/2022 7:00:09 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: mewzilla
That they aren't necessarily a moron may be true, but wearing a mask doesn't help negate that supposition. Cheers!
37 posted on 04/19/2022 7:00:33 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: dforest

Good points.

We have the arrogance to think we can meddle in the intricacies of the human immune system, but I see it as similar to a five year old child with a loaded firearm.

If we destroy ourselves, I have stopped thinking it will be nuclear war or even biological war.

It will be because we fiddle with something as vital as this and destroy it in the process.


38 posted on 04/19/2022 7:02:00 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: mewzilla

“I don’t assume everyone wearing a mask is a moron”

I do, I can deal with being right 99.99% of the time


39 posted on 04/19/2022 7:02:04 AM PDT by algore
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To: mewzilla

Unhinged suburban Karens will be on Rumble screeching at airport check in counters.


40 posted on 04/19/2022 7:02:38 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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