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The Wiltster's avatar

When I was a kid growing up in rural North Carolina, we had a saying, "If you let them ride, they will want to drive." That is where we are. Masking kids is not the problem. Accepting that masking had *any* value for *anyone* is the problem. That was the beginning of the end. Masking children is the natural and frankly, unavoidable, outcome of accepting the premise that masks had any value at all, ever.

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Guttermouth's avatar

"there is a special circle of hell reserved for those who provide faux-moralizing pretexts to harm children."

Or goddamned puppies.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/australian-rescue-dogs-e2-80-98shot-dead-by-council-over-covid-19-restrictions-e2-80-99/ar-AANCPzM

You might actually be the bad guy in the story if...

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el gato malo's avatar

might?

when you can get a cat siding with the dogs, the humans are way, way out of line.

cruelty to animals is a warming sign on psychopathy.

just sayin...

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Karen's avatar

That Australian story just sickened me. What kind of people could even do that? I can't even read the whole story without crying, sitting here with my beloved rescue pit terrier, Daphne.

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Karen's avatar

I'm not a violent person, but if I was in a position where my superior told me to shoot a bunch of innocent dogs, I think I would turn and shoot my superior. Really.

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Casey's avatar

If you're Aussie NATO, why stop at dogs? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-16/video-shows-afghan-man-shot-at-close-range-by-australian-sas/12028512

"Aus SAS "soldier"shoots unarmed Afghan civilian"

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Pawletto's avatar

two kinds of people in this world: those who see masking little children as okay, and those who see it as abuse.

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el gato malo's avatar

one might ague that only the latter category are actually humans...

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SF Bay Area's avatar

It’s Child abuse plain and simple and I'm not putting up with it any longer.

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Mike Sweeten's avatar

(A theory) Faces serve individualism. This is an atheist collectivist uprising. Masks hold a deep philosophical appeal to the collectivist, demonstrating subordination of the self for the good of the whole. Although symbolic for the adult, it might be an effective tool to ward off the individualists urges of the very young. If they're collectivists, they'll discover the virtue of masking. If they're individualists, they deserve to be uncomfortable.

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TexBat's avatar

Get your children out of .gov schools. Homeschool. Read John Taylor Gatto

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el gato malo's avatar

better still, let's get the government out of the schools and move to free, unfettered voucher systems.

education is not too important to be left to the private sector, it's too important NOT to be.

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Karen's avatar

I grew up in Orange Co., Calif, where the hometown paper, the Santa Ana Register consistently used to opine against government schools. Seemed A little crazy then, but now I agree it makes sense.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Karen, it has taken a significant amount of time to wake me up too - like the proverbial frog in the cooking pot.

Schools were just beginning to crater when I was in them back in the late-50's early-60's. For most of that period, we had our problems, but we still had discipline, prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance -- and we ALWAYS stood for the National Anthem and the American Flag! Oh, and the duck and cover practice runs.

This particular frog took it's time waking up and I'm sorry for that.

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libertate's avatar

Check out this TEDx talk by Dr. Pauline Dixon discussing how low-cost local private schools in India outperform government schools in pretty much every metric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzv4nBoXoZc&t=8s

Government "education" is a scam and a national disgrace.

A quick look at https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ demonstrates unequivocally that whatever government schools are doing, it does not involve actually educating children.

Imagine expecting anything else from a cadre of unionized government employees posing as teachers, sporting degrees from the least rigorous academic programs and thoroughly marinated in socialism and woke nonsense.

Is it any wonder that after several generations being subjected to state-worshiping indoctrination that we have vast herds of tax cattle that have succumbed to perhaps the greatest mass hysteria in history, and are willing to enthusiastically comply with any arbitrary edict from on high, regardless of how absurd and destructive?

If we are able to win the battle that now faces us, the government "education" disaster should be next on the list.

"When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."

~ Albert Shanker, United Federation of Teachers founder and president

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Amen to both of you - TexBat works well as a quick solution, but el Gato Malo's solution needs to be the permanent one!

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cmpalmer75's avatar

The mask insanity is a distraction from their plans for the jabs.

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Mellis's avatar

When they have no shame in torturing children there is no turning back, no mistaking any of it for differences in views of scientific understanding. It is pure evil. At similar points all the most monstrous, soulless evil-doers in history stopped even trying to rationalize their evil. They simply put the pedal to the metal for all out destruction.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

I haven't read the Hippocratic oath in a long, long time and probably remember it incorrectly, but doesn't have a phrase something like: "first, do no harm" in the administration of medical assistance? When can we start jailing these folk?

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Mellis's avatar

Not so long as the monsters control the jailers. We are living Lord of the Flies, King if Hearts and Mad Max all rolled into one. They laugh and dare you to do something about it.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Good point, Mellis. I rather enjoyed the Mad Max movies, but I hated the "Lord of the Flies" book - it was NOT pleasant. Unfortunately, it is now one of the best analogies.

Thanks ... I think.

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Chris M's avatar

This article is galling! All this talk about how masks help kids with ‘self- control and self- regulation’. These are the people telling kids it’s okay for them to change their gender based on how they feel. Considering the seriousness of the topic and the gravity of the consequences, the worst thing about this essay is the tone. It’s so formulaic and dopey, like the writer is delighted by their own insights. It sounds like my fifth grader writing their opinion piece about why they should have more recess.

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Los Gatos Locos's avatar

Pains me every time I take my 3 yo to soccer and see masked kids running around because of the PARENT. The fear is real in the PNW and just like a toddler it cannot be reasoned with.

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Gatúbela mexicana's avatar

I live in Canada and have a four year old who requires to be masked at school. Where can I find reasonable evidence that this is harmful? I can't believe they are doing this in Canada. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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Wyatt's avatar

Unfortunately, there are many people buying the “masks are actually good for kids” argument. The comments on the Times article claim that parents who don’t want masks are the irrational ones without any support for their argument. We in an upside down world.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Wyatt, yes we are. Romans 1 (depraved/deranged minds) and Isaiah 5:20 (calling good evil and evil good). We need to invite God back into our schools, courts, hospitals and, if it were possible, back into our government.

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Wyatt's avatar

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. - John Knox

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Well, I agree up to a point. Render unto Caesar that which is Caeser's is also valid, up to the point that it goes against God's Word. At that point, you and good ol' John Knox have my full vote!

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

I really wish Substack would allow quick edits.

I'd like to add: nearly all of this current nonsense definitely goes against God's Word!

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Pawletto's avatar

This same madness would shoot a kennel filled with innocent dogs (Australia) thinking it would be preventing covid. Exact same madness!

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Paul Melzer - are you serious? Australia has gone that far? This isn't rabies and those dogs are probably as innocent, protective and loving as Old Yeller.

Australia needs all our prayers. Well, so do a LOT of parts of this ol' world.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Thanks, Paul ... I think. I used to volunteer at the animal shelter and in helping rescue dogs, cats, goats, rabbits. This insanity hurts.

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

wish I could edit my comments on Substack. I assume and HOPE you're speaking metaphorically as in they "would," not that they "have."

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Pawletto's avatar

did, according to various news sources. my point is the same madness that shuts the eyes of some to the abuse of children can blind them to other atrocities in the name of the "collective good," however the hell they define that.

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Pawletto's avatar

*would shoot a kennel full of…

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Karen's avatar

I notice that all the immigrant moms here in DE where I live are all masked up, and so are all their kids when they go out. Including my ESL students. Even the ones who recovered from COVID and then got vaccinated. They all want to fit in, to be inoffensive, and they TOTALLY understand that the masks are about compliance and virtue signalling, not health.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

Also in IL an state senator is filing an ethics complaint against Pritzker for threatening to pull a doc’s license for talking about optional masks at a school board meeting. https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/regulatory-agency-drops-investigation-into-school-board-members-position-on-masks-in-schools/article_6036d7b0-01f1-11ec-85cd-93a14767f48c.html

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Harry's avatar

Believing that a cloth mask will stop Covid is like thinking your undies will stop a fart.

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Ed's avatar

the story left many things out......actually leaving your child with a pedophile can help them learn, in some marxist bizzaro world...

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