it was painfully obvious right from the beginning that the whole notion was invented as a low energy path for performative “doing something.”
it accentuated a sense of crisis, alienated individuals, and carved out bright lines of social conflict. and it did nothing at all of epidemiological value. this was known and knowable.
the WHO’s 2019 study of masks vs respiratory virus was quite definitive.
and the evidence from actual RCT’s carried out in covid (such as DANMASK) backs this up.
but even this wholesale fabrication “for your protection” was insufficient. there was a need to impose a moral dimension and thus was born the entirely invented tagline of “your mask protects me.”
this made your actions a part of my health and thus allowed me to make moral demands of you. but these demands were false. it was public manipulation, not public health.
the absurd notion of “source protection” was literally invented from whole cloth to impose a sense of social obligation and force compliance through shaming of failing in a duty to others.
this was “validated” with ginned up mannequin studies and nonsense sneeze tests that lacked any clinical outcomes data whatsoever.
masks do not even work as source control in surgical theaters when worn by trained professionals.
the ones wearing the N95 and KN95 masks are the most traumatized. Also the ones wearing the strap to make the two masks fit more tightly. And the few who still wear the faceshield over the masks. And the latex gloves.
Im AZ, which does NOT have a mask mandate, universities in both Phx & Tucson are REQUIRING the N95 as spactators! No other type will do, as if ANY of them do ANYTHING @ all! It’s unhinged
You're describing the ones that go outside! A few months back my mum (75) visiting her mother in law invited her neighbour (65) out. She then revealed it was the first time she'd been out of the house for 18months!
My mother is 87 and she simply got on with her life. Saw instantly the deviousness of the British parliament departing Westminster and said " we'd have lost the war with this lot in power". She has had to watch her compliant and much younger friend succumb to galloping dementia.
About Sept 2020 in my blue state I heard: "some people haven't even left their house yet" i.e. in 6 or 7 months.... so , no sunlight - air in just about all indoor settings is not high quality ... a "diabolical" outcome?
Outside in the rain..alone..wet surgical masks & kn95s! The Biden/CDC is not leading people forward to any level of normalcy, health or sanity much less “Morning in America”. The mask optics coming out of the White House are an absurdist dystopian black mirror episode. No wonder this continues apace and broken (revealed) people are so attached to this dehumanizing performance theater. Mask mandates are used to elevate fear, isolate, stress out and ultimately to push the Vax agenda.
No panic. The Walmart has started to disinfect every counter used for self checkout. Cashier back in masks. In Belgium full nazi still. Only 3 visits a week in hospitals, one hour, one person, mask on and triple vaxxed.
At least I can sort of respect those who wear N95 masks. No, they don't do anything to stop the spread of Covid, but at least they're not *obviously* useless, like the cloth masks of T-shirt material most of these NPCs are walking around with (and attempting to shame others about). One has to wonder if these people would also believe that a chain link fence could stop a sandstorm...
I don’t respect anyone wearing masks, since all they represent is compliance to the state’s “right” to usurp my bodily control & autonomy. If our maker meant for us to not only breathe thru a filter, he’d have made us that way. If our maker wanted us to rebreathe CO2 & have snot, sweat, secretions & bacteria plastered to our faces, he’d have designed that too.
All that said, any idiots who get off on all of that…you do you
Speaking of cloth & tee shirt material, I ordered a couple unlined LACE masks on Etsy so I can breathe 😂. You have to look kind of close to even notice & people just don’t. They just assume anything covering 1/2 your face is legit 🙄
Even “official” masks (what a joke, no such thing) say they don’t prevent germs from coming in.
My community emergency prep committee bought cases of KN95s to sell as a fund raiser. I told them they are useless for viruses, and they give the wearer a false sense of security. I said they were spreading misinformation and offered the chart of studies gato shows above. No response, of course! And the sheep bought up all the masks in 4 hours!
My husband will be going to a basketball game in Tucson next week, the U of A requiring an N95 just to watch. I went to Amazon to find a pack & noticed many were KN & not N so I researched the difference. KNs are apparently made in CHINA while Ns are made here. I guess if he has to wear the damn thing, I’m NOT getting anything made in China! Haven’t watched one second of the Olympics either!
They are completely different products. A KN95 is not a fitted industrial mask. It's a differently shaped and equally useless (for viruses) surgical mask.
In drug stores around here they're sold right next to the stupid blue slave muzzles.
Living in Karenland here... about the same situation... My blood boils when I see kids younger than toddler age peering out from their little masked faces as if in shock. I think they are.
I had to reprimand two different parents for that during a brief visit to the grocery store yesterday. I calmly tell them to their faces that while their face diaper is merely ridiculous, their kids' are child abuse. Usually I get no response. Yesterday, however, both did that weird thing where they say "thank you". I assume this is some technique they learned in confrontation avoidance classes.
Your heart may be in the right place, but shaming someone into changing their behaviors or beliefs is counterproductive. Those people love their kids deeply and are doing their own personal best to keep them safe (facts notwithstanding). Accusing them of abuse will, quite understandably, put them on the defensive and only give them more confidence in their position.
Hey there John. I don't think of it that way, so I think we must be misunderstanding each other somewhat. Could you explain more? Alternatively, is there anything specific you'd like me to answer? Always looking for ways to understand and communicate with folks better and meet them where they are.
I take your point, and I do not have a sense that I am necessarily doing the right or best thing when I make those comments to parents. Still, when I speak to these neurotic creatures, I try to maintain an even, informational tone as opposed to one of accusation, if for no other reason than to avoid alarming the kids.
I often don't say anything, which does not feel good. But sometimes I cannot help myself when I see those little masked faces; I want to rescue the kids from a life of neurosis by waking their parents up.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply and I appreciate the perspective. It's a hard line to walk. The irony is that one of the things I think would help the most - honest person-to-person communication, complete with tone, body language, and compassionate listening - is really challenging with a face covering and 6' of social distance. My hope is that by just being there, cheerfully buying bananas and smiling like it's 2019, I'll be a good example and a calming influence, even though I suspect they just wish I'd keep my distance.
Really? Tell me how the parents who volunteered their kids for the initial drug trials were trying to keep them safe. You know, the trials where they can't even suggest the drugs are safe, because that's what the trial is trying to establish.
Unfortunately, I can't tell you their reasoning - only they know that for sure - but I can offer some possibilities.
At its core, it may just come down to the fear and panic encouraged by mainstream news coverage driving irrational behavior. A Gallup poll conducted in Q4 2020 showed many people believed that covid hospitalization rate was 50%! Not only that, but they also severely overestimated the risk to children (and accordingly underestimated the risk to the elderly). Given these faulty baseline assumptions, I can easily see how terrified parents who've had no reason to mistrust doctors in the past would consider the trials the less risky option.
As for why they believed that... well, that's a whole other topic, but Gato's and others' posts about government control, media narratives, and censorship have a lot to do with it. Good information exists (we're on this forum, after all), but both the technological means of finding it (censored misinformation!) and the mindset to openly and fairly consider a new viewpoint (evil anti-vaxxers!) that could shake someone's entire identity are considerable challenges.
Confronting evil is the only way to provide instruction to evildoers. Love consists of both confrontation AND charity. The notion that love must only be endless forgiveness and acceptance is how Western society got into this horrible mess over the last 60 years. The left have been so successful, that they even distorted our traditional morality into a heresy, and nobody realized it was happening.
One problem is that each side equally thinks that the other side is the evildoers. For example, if you read your post from the perspective of a pro-vax, pro-mask person, then I'm the evil that must be confronted! I've cautiously spoken to N95ers at the park - not to lecture or to manipulate, but to understand. They won't convince me and I won't convince them, and outright hostility will make us both unwilling to even listen, but if we can connect just a little at a time, I consider that progress.
Earlier I was being polite and providing instruction, but obviously that approach had no effect.
Your latest response is just a sly attempt to move the goalposts of the original issue, specifically the necessity of directly confronting evil. You've used what's called the motte and bailey logical fallacy. The only thing you've really accomplished is to act like the tone police. In addition, your appeal to moral equivalence is a standard copout for those who don't have any viable arguments, but are still trying to pretend they represent some kind of 'third way' moral high ground. Moral equivalence is not an argument, it's a logical fallacy and a refuge for sanctimonious cowards.
I don't know who you're trying to fool, although it's quite possibly yourself. As for the rest of us, we see right through you, so I suggest you stop now before you embarrass yourself any further. One more thing: I suggest you look in the mirror if you ever wonder how our society got into this mess in the first place.
There is a very short clip floating around of the reaction of a Nevada grade school class of kids being told they would not have to wear masks anymore - it is only about 20 seconds or so.
Just a thought: approach these parents with vid ready to go "hey have you seen this?" and just hit play. Then say 'have a nice day' and walk away.
Any parent who goes on masking their kid will feel like shit after seeing that - as a parent you want your kid to be happy - and those kids were overjoyed to be free to breathe and communicate and play again as they need to do - it really hits the message home.
If you get a parent that wants to argue 'oh, I see, it's your intent to put your kid at a competitive disadvantage for life.....never mind then."
They will be some assholes in the moment but the parent WILL be thinking about it later - no one wants to disadvantage their kid!
Telling the truth is considered mean, since Vatican II Robber Council. There's a tiny segment that actually sees it as an act of charity, like me.
Btw, I pray Rosary across the street from the once Catholic Church in my town, now a Vatican II desecrated false Church under false pope, nwo whore Francis.
I pray Blessed Virgin Mary will bring Catholic faith back into it, give us a Pope, a Bishop here in Austin Tx
For a percentage to hear, and at some point stop the behavior.
The rest, to not complain when Jesus sends them to hell... truth is for many things.
Our (I don't know who's side your on,,)... preeminent weapon Is Truth.
At Vatican II Robber Council, vast majority of Bishops committed treason. The handful, out of thousands, didn't sign these heretical documents BUT THEY KEPT THEIR MOUTHS SHUT.
I took my 3yro granddaughter to the playground on Friday. A little boy, slightly older than her, played the entire time with his face diaper on. They played tag and I kept waiting for him to get dizzy and pass out. The 2 grandparents that had brought him, were unmuzzled, so I assume this was some sort of daycare ritual, being played out.
It is a ritual. Satanic ritual. Black masses use masks. And if you don't believe in the spiritual aspect of this lunacy, then look to the secular ritual of masking in China. We are following the demonic communist playbook with masks.
So young, he likely got used to wearing it and now feels uncomfortable without it.
Until my oldest was 5 he wore a costume everyday. We had a bin full of choices and even after school he would take off his school clothes and put spiderman or a power ranger or his little scrubs. He had a school uniform, so that was his school time costume but any other time of day was make believe time. He always wore a cloth mask, it was more of a full face, sometimes full headed cloth mask. If I had young kids during covid-times I would had made them a bunch of dress-up masks, really just so they would have been allowed to wear costumes at school and say it's appropriate masking. Having raised 4 sons, I can absolutely see preschool kids not easily giving up the mask.
This makes me think of an article last week, where it stated, those that hid Anne Frank and her family, broke the law. Those that killed them followed the law. When you have your child jabbed with poison you are a hero. When you don't traumatize your child you are a vilain. The world has gone insane. I hope the truck exhausts detoxes the toxins in those damaged brains
I recently read a piece, someone had seen a parent attempt to bribe their 13-14 years-old son to get the vaccine without hassle in exchange for a desired new video game. The boy was firm, he'd had covid, he wasn't going to have the vaccine as well. My first thought was that the author's perspective would be to praise the young man and encourage him to continue to stand up for himself. Nope. It was an essay regarding the poor parenting practice of using bribery to purchase desired behavior.
Just the other day I saw 2 young girls alone on the block, walking their dog, fully masked in oversized ill-fitting home depot n95's. Sadly ridiculous. Couple of blocks later there was a child barely walking upright without tumbling over, nearly running into the street, mother no where near enough to grab him. Almost made my heart stop. Fortunately, the driver was paying attention! Must have seen the fluorescent orange cloth mask the baby was wearing.
That's the first case I've heard of a mask actually saving a life in the time of Covid. Don't tell too many people, or the CDC will mandate fluorescent orange mask wearing for all babies, because.... Science™ and all.
Do they want to signal they are good children and didn’t need to be made to wear them because they knew just how effective they were intuitively? Or perhaps taking them off now acknowledges they serve no public health purpose and if that is so now, with virus still circulating, they served no public health purpose in the first place. Or the are just so stupid and incapable of thinking for themselves, they need Mummy to tell them to stop wearing them ?
I have asked some of my mask-wearing friends. A 14yo has been wearing them since he was 12, and he says he is "used to them" because he wears one all day at school, and they keep his face warm in the winter weather, so he just doesn't think about taking it off.
A 50-yo mom is anxious and fearful and admitted to me that since she has received her third jab, she once again feels safe. Also, she has developed acne from the mask wearing, so she prefers covering that up, now.
A 25-yo woman enjoys being able to walk down the street without revealing her expression to anyone. She can scowl at people without them knowing and doesn't "have to smile."
A 60-yo man has received all three of his shots, caught COVID (twice!) anyway, and believes he needs to do his part by wearing his mask while walking around inside, but the danger magically goes away whenever he sits down at a table.
These folks and many others I know live here in Karenland where there is still a mask mandate in place, with helpful reminder signs posted everywhere, and even if they don't believe in the masks, they would rather "go along to get along" and not risk being called out by others for noncompliance. Because, you know, this is a liberal area and if you buck the norm, you might be thought of as a conservative, right wing, racist homophobe transphobe Christian selfish idiot. Keep your nose down, keep your mask on, keep your job, keep your friends, and hope this ends soon.
Very few will take the mask off and be an obvious mask denier. But many think it's stupid -- and do it anyway. Because the government says so.
´… she once again feels safe. Also, she has developed acne from the mask wearing, so she prefers covering that up, now.´
And her acne gets worse meaning she has to keep wearing the mask which makes her acne worse so she has to wear a mask which makes her acne worse which means she has to wear a mask… I have a headache.
Yeah in England before the Omicron mask re-mandate (announced to start 5 days later) I was stood in the centre of Chester city and watching 95% of people wander happily around without masks thinking "tomorrow, you'll all be wearing masks..."
It's a sort of numbing thought to me that so many fellow countrymen who I used to hold in high regard will follow whatever rule they get given to follow regardless.
I felt like getting a board and a loud-hailer and telling them all. Maybe I should have. I guess I even worry about my job and career and the slim probability it would make any difference.
I think it’s the admitting they were misled/wrong. Cognitive dissonance forces them to hold onto their error. “The facts just don’t know how smart I am”.
But--here's the thing. YOU are NOT their parent. YOU have NO CONTROL over what happens to them when they are out of your sight. You forget, they are children and really don't have any say. Encourage them to defy Mummy and it is them, not you, who will face the consequences behind closed doors. Because you really don't know what Mummy is like when nobody is looking, do you? There are some very abusive parents out there, who know how to hide the abuse and what kind of face to put on in public, and you really don't know what kind of parent you are dealing with when you are dealing with a stranger. I'd be very careful about confronting parents in public.
There is an element of truth to that for some of them I think. Why else would you continue to wear that viralbacteria bomb? Why else would you trust someone you do not know and who has shown himself unworthy of trust over yourself unless you know or think you are an utter dipsh*t?
I am guessing that most people here did not hear their parents say "Oh if "x" jumped off the bridge you would be there following him into the water". But they did hear "My GOSH kid, can't you just get along!"
Oh I'm sure they were taught that. Problem is, people have become unable to recognize situations where cautionary tales have to be applied to a real life scenario. Which is why they also don't know when, how, and why to apply historical context to contemporary events.
"Oh those are just stories!" they say. "That happened long ago to those people OVER THERE. Could never happen here" they cry.
That’s right. Nobody taught these people, when they were kids, any sense of independence and don’t be a copy cat. Constantly supervised, not allowed to get dirty or maybe fall out of a tree and stay close to Mummy because there’s a pædeophile behind every lamp post. I suppose one might say these people have been socially distanced and protected from the disease that is life all their lives. They do not know how to assess risk and manage it.
"I suppose one might say these people have been socially distanced and protected from the disease that is life all their lives. They do not know how to assess risk and manage it. "
Sad but True Award of the day goes to you John. Hope you have kids.
They provide a false sense of anonymity. As a woman, fewer people are able to notice my smile, hope I am smiling at them and attempt to strike up an unwelcome conversation.
Just something I've noticed here in LA-LA-Land. I recognized more than a year ago that I would likely continue to wear a mask periodically on errands; frees me from unwanted superficial conversation and flirtation.
I am in no way suggesting a mask is effective at stopping the spread of covid. Just that it seems to slow the spread of attention from unwelcome a$$holes.
I hate to say it, I HATE to see it, but in my neighborhood it's well over 50% still, even though Hochul the Fascist Harpy has graciously told us we can take them off (until she sends us to the camps she's building). I live in a totally psychotic neighborhood in NYC. Many are double masked, outside, on a beautiful sunny day. I know about mass formation but I am still gobsmacked by the stupidity of it all.
I don't know. I think lots of people when presented with a problem, are just too lazy to think about it on their own. If someone comes along and offers to solve it for them, they're only too happy to go along.
Higher in Seattle. Probably 75% outside wearing masks. The shocking thing is: I've seen some of them take them off on occasion. Their noses are black. There is a thick layer of fur growing all over their faces. And, they seem to speak a different language that I can't understand. Sounds like 'bleat, bleat, bleat." Anyone else seeing this?
No mask mandates in my state, other than that a few school districts may still be forcing masks on students. Yet when my spouse and I went shopping over the weekend at a couple of large chain stores, probably 50-60% of the customers were masked, along with all of the employees.
I see relatively few people masked outdoors. It's the ones who still wear a mask while driving alone that leave me shaking my head. Saw one last week.
No mask mandates (as if I'd care if there was) here in OK, either... but in my job, I drive around all day, and every day I see at least a handful of idiots wearing masks, alone in their cars. If I happen to be stopped beside one at a traffic light, I tend to stare at them until they see me ... and then just shake my head in derision (not that it has any discernible effect, mind you.) I usually just get the "big eye" treatment. 😂
I theorize those who took the shot continue to wear the masks in an attempt to quell the fear of the virus and as an effect of the gene-changing, permanently compliant behavior.
Kinda makes me nostalgic for the perpetually perturbed pink p*ssyhats. At least back when it was TDS and the death throes of vestigial post-feminist manhate, they were smiling. In this we see the whole point of the self-destruction that is the prog left. It must consume everything good and beautiful and right. Their eyes tell the story.
Someone commented on Twitter that Dr Dre who performed at halftime of the Super Bowl was “the most believable doctor we’ve seen on national TV in 2 years”.
I just wonder if people like my sisters who wore double masks, yelled at my mom through a bull horn from the back yard, and made her sit in a cold garage for Christmas will ever admit how idiotically wrong they were? (Probably not....sigh)
Wtf I am so sorry. The worst and only offender in my circle is my spouse since he’s in the middle of the brainwash as a medical professional. Hopefully he will awaken at some point. At least he’s not scared shitless anymore like he was until March 2021. It’s tough for people like us who are close to someone who drunk the koolaid. At least he thinks outside masking is crazy. Baby steps…
He never dealt with Covid patients. But as a hospital employee the daily brainwash how many cases they had and they’re in the icu was nuts. He really thought I was gonna die and the kids will die. It’s a slow progress now. He still gets flustered when I point out the deaths weren’t in healthy young folks. But now that most of his coworkers who are triple jabbed got the omicold it did induce a change. It’ll take time. He thinks the cdc is always right. It shows med school teaches you to be a follower without critical thinking skills.
But hey I used to be very democrat and then woke up. It happens. So not losing my enthusiasm and positivity.
and let me add that the "Christmas celebration" was in the great lakes region and the garage doors were open. Mom was 94 at the time.....all she could talk about was how COLD she was that afternoon.
They were all in the garage with the doors open celebrating (use the term loosely) Christmas- with masks on in 35 degree weather. My stupid nepew was there too. When I questioned him about the temp. he said "it wasn't that cold, I only had my hoody on"- wasn't talking about YOU idiot!!! yikes!
Words can’t describe what I would say to that person who made their 94 y/o mom sit outside in the cold for Christmas. Someone needed to step in and stop that nonsense. Pure evil.
I have 2 sisters and if they behaved like that, I’d never let them forget it. My younger sister is an RN and said she’s done with the Pfizer fantasy. Upon receiving her booster, she felt like she was running a fever of 103, yet she had no fever. This went on for 4 days and she still had to go to work.
I had a good laugh talking to my brother the other day. He and his wife went to a New Year's celebration with about 20 people, all vaxxed. Everyone still had to do a quick covid test to attend. About a week later, half of them got Covid, despite their "negative" tests.
so 3rd time lucky? (in terms of having enough of the BS) hmmm.... seems to be the boy Who cried wolf limit; the 3 option joke-punchline; only in Israel have they pushed on with the 4th - to further more disastrous consequences. On the plus-side this is exactly how a world-wide response should go... i.e. divide countries up and make them stick to very rigid deployments of early treatments etc. albeit Danmask study was able to be conducted with statistical significance on districts of several thousand.... really we have the ability as a globe to run several thousand randomised trials. That's how I would have liked to have seen my country/planet run it.
I invited myself to my parents for Christmas 2020 ("illegal" at the time) and my sisters kicked off. The eldest the most. Then she demanded we had a front lawn distanced gift-giving. In the middle of which I walked behind her and fake-spat in her hair. She burst out crying, my 18year old son burst out laughing. Hey I'm the younger brother so goes with the territory.
Anyway she recovered enough to then hypocritically need the toilet and went inside the house and then made herself a coffee.
2021 not much better I haven't spoken since she and her partner accused me and my family of endangering everyone "like waving a loaded gun around" by not being vaxxed.
Hey ho.
Someone somewhere might be gloating at the fractured families, but the "it happened for a reason" part of me thinks finally I know who really is caring and thoughtful to me and my kids and who isn't.
omg...how sad! And here I am in Karenland (Oregon) trying to get my 19 y.o. to understand the truth about political manipulation and how masks don't do shit. Unfortunately, she's of college age and attends a very progressive college in the most progressive city (Portland). So, I gotta bite my tongue and pick my arguments very carefully.
I know this is controversial, but if you are are helping financially or cosigning on loans, etc, I would stop unless your child goes to a nonindoctrinating college. Because it is hurting these students more than it's helping them, so you don't want your money going to an organization that is actively abusing your kid both psychologically (toxic ideas that ruin their relationships) and physically (vaccine mandates). We have a college ready student and believe the most loving thing to do is only offer financial support towards opportunities that help her thrive. Thankfully, she gets it!
I'm in Oregon City. I avoid PDX as much as possible. Here in Clackamas County, I just walk into establishments WITHOUT a mask. I'm not looking for confrontation but I do make them ask me. So far, no one has. Even yesterday on Main St. OC, I walked into a restaurant (with signs on the door) like I owned the place, and NO ONE said a word. We must ignore the posters and walk in without masks. Let's put the onus on them. ;-)
Oh believe me, I do. I have been confronted by a Karen at PDX but I loudly said to my husband ‘I’m being confronted by a Karen, trying to lecture me on public health policy. Typical Portlander.’
She actually shrunk back. I’m in healthcare. I also understand the difference between a mandate and a law, unlike 100% of the Karen’s out there
California/LA mask mandates had zero compliance at the Super Bowl. Elites, pols, Hollywood, media and peons alike ignored the "law". No mention of this universal civil disobedience in Tinsel Town. Good to know that Garcetti is a serial liar or he can hold his breath for 4 hours.
Saw a video on Twitter by the @LADailyNews with LA Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer (@LApublichealth) doing an interview from the Super Bowl, up in the stands. The interviewer was wearing a black surgical mask, she was wearing a black N95-style mask. Neither mask was well-fitted. They both fidgeted constantly with their masks for the entire 60-second clip, pulling them up every few seconds, touching the presumably-contaminated front constantly. No one anywhere around them had a mask on.
It's not a giant mystery why masks can't work in real life - just watch people wearing them. It's rare that somebody goes a full minute without screwing with it.
I never understood the "don't touch the mask" advice. I mean, virions on the outside of the mask are there because they were floating around in the air and stuck. Your hands are also out in the air and so virions are sticking to your hands too. WTF? Unless masks are magical virion magnets vacuuming the things up from the air. In that case, you'd want that mask as far away from your face as possible!
I watched for a few minutes and noticed that no one was wearing the masks. My daughter thought that vaccinated people were allowed to take them off. SMH Were they asking for vax status at the gate? I hope not.
I know a bunch of people who want to stay masked up. Not necessarily angry masked Karen's, but insecure, neurotic individuals who are convinced that a disease with a 99% survival rate for most will kill them. Also.. many also simply want to do what they're told. Sad.
I read all the studies in March of 2020 and there was zip, zero, nada to indicate that any mask aside from the kind you see in the BioWeapons labs (the bubble suit) was going to be effective. I refused the cloth the entire time and had only two small dust ups. No one wants to hear that because everyone fell for the peer pressure, even if they thought it was BS. Worse than BS, incredibly harmful to society - particularly to kids.
Right there with you. I wore a pair of red underwear on my head a few times when grocery shopping. Full-grown men would snivel at me sometimes. But little old ladies would walk up and compliment me. Then I saw a guy in Trader Joe's with no mask. He told me he just waves a "letter from his doctor" at the Facehole Enforcers and they acquiesce. So I had "my doctor" write up a letter stating that I had a neurological condition that precluded me wearing a mask. "We" omitted that the condition was a capacity for critical thinking.
I have made it a rule to never again do business with those who require face masks, or other things (okay, shirts and shoes ok), and have given my business to locals with commonsense. (Most recently, a credit union, and there on the door "We're Masking Up!" like they were having a birthday party. I backed right out of the parking lot. If they'll do it now, they'll do it again and again, whenever the fearful take control.)
Support local small business that survived 2020. It's worth every dollar.
Almost none of the businesses in my town complied w/ the mask mandates, almost from the start. But they all put up the signs & plexiglass & marked the floors. It was all done to keep their doors open. A better gauge might be to ignore the signage @ the door & go inside to see if any employees & customers are maskless. In most places here, some do wear & some don’t. I’ve noticed more people wearing them lately (probably because omi is more contagious, even if masks don’t do s#¡+) but because they choose to, not because businesses are forcing them to
I support this sentiment but in my locked-down blue state (run by a King who is not subject to reelection pressures right now (or even in future), this would mean going nowhere.
Im in a deep blue state too but in the southern end where I live, it is conservative & common sense so @ least I am free where I live & in the surrounding towns.
Visiting my kids in the northern part of the state is a whole other story…
A lady where I live went to a Walmart with her mask exemption letter from her doctor. Despite the exemption, a guard pestered her and then hit her and broke her phone because she didn't have a mask on. What a gentleman. The world has gone mad.
Yes, that's how I know about it. She filmed the whole discussion with the police. She was this tiny lady who was no threat at all, and the guard smacked her.
I am looking for a doctor like that. When I asked him why a medical professional believed these stupid masks did anything, he got pretty huffy and tried to ridicule me.
I admire you, but you didn't need the study. We have known about viruses for how long and fabric for how much longer? And suddenly masks are magic against viruses? Better than a vaccine, according to Dr. Redfield? (No, I don't believe the vaccine works, but that statement was ridiculous on its face. No "PPE" is better than your own immune system if it can be made to recognize and fight off anything.) All people had to do was use two brain cells and their eyes and they would have understood how "off" this situation was.
That's been the most frustrating part of it all - so many seemed to turn off their brains. Even those educated to know better. It has forever changed my world.
When the shaming kicked in, that was the sure sign something was off. But yet, everyone went along. Being the only maskless person (maybe there were 1-2 others per store) was like living in the Zombie apocalypse.
Walking through the airport without a mask is such an amazing feeling. Most people look away, ashamed. But I know that I’m helping others build their courage. Smile. Laugh. Remind people what they’re missing.
I used that WHO study many times in trying to show people that masks don't work. The CDC actually published a study in 2020 that came to the same conclusion:
"In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.51–1.20; I2 = 30%, p = 0.25) (Figure 2).
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Disposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids (36). There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza."
Of course, that didn't stop them from them publishing another article claiming that masks were likely responsible for the magical disappearance of flu last season:
"The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent implementation of nonpharmaceutical interventions (e.g., cessation of global travel, mask use, physical distancing, and staying home) reduced transmission of some viral respiratory pathogens (1). In the United States, influenza activity decreased in March 2020, was historically low through the summer of 2020 (2), and remained low during October 2020–May 2021 (<0.4% of respiratory specimens with positive test results for each week of the season)."
They'll even go all in, and as el gato pointed out yesterday, publish a "study" that claims in its introduction that mask mandates resulted in a "statistically significant" reduction in the rose of COVID-19 cases, but if you read, the reduction was less than 0.75% on the first 20 days after such mandates and never measured even 2%. Of course, a 2% reduction in the rise in cases is not statistically significant and there is no evidence that masks themselves were responsible (correlation does not equal causation).
You have to be able to read. Imagine if all your information came from Fakebook, Google, Yahoo, the cable news networks or the alphabet networks? You’d still believe all these remediation methods worked. People are generally lazy when it comes to information. We are the 30% that can think for ourselves.
And, a MAGA hat actually works: At keeping the sun out of your eyes. And your hair out of your face. And sweat out of your eyes. And holds your sunglasses when you don't need them. And sun off your scalp when golfing. And won't make YOU sick from wearing it.
ALL unlike masks, which not only do nothing good, but may very well do things bad to you.
Society has been conditioned to except an evidence free policy that has demonstrably failed over and over again. And to think that my lesson on Covid mask propaganda through the lens of Orwell's Animal Farm might cost me my job....
Don't think critically kids - the government has experts! Do what they say!
Just wanted to say a big thanks to you for your writing! It has helped me get way clearer on what has been going on here and what's actually at stake. Thanks!
Nothing in this Fake pandemic was about Public health, its all about NWO Population Control
A Pandemic of Deceit
Where Is The Pandemic? According To The BC Government Records Hospitalizations and ICU admissions in BC During the Covid-19 Pandemic Did Not Increase Compared to the Previous Years
Some people have to stay home to make Karen feel safe. Other people have to go to work so Karen feels comfortable. And if you disagree, you're the one being selfish.
I was in Nashville recently (Jan 2022) in bars listening to music, walking on the streets and downtown. Virtually no one was masked, the bars were packed. It was unbelievable, normal and wonderful. I asked the hotel staff; those honkey tonk bars never closed once. Amazing! Did you ever hear of extra cases, deaths in Nashville? I never did.
Teenage girl wearing mask standing by a water fountain yesterday at church where only about 10% masked; when I greeted her, turned her back to me before she responded. Permanent psychosis.
I remember early on, spring or summer 2020 the NEJM had an article that masks didn’t do any real good & mainly served as a “talisman” for those wearing them. Which was the way I saw them too - a phony talisman to ward off the evil bug, as well as a state symbol of control & compliance. Of course there was backlash to the idea that masks didn’t do anything so the NEJM re-issued the literature w/ a disclaimer. Id be surprised if it hasn’t been “disappeared”, but if it was, it may well reappear now that the political “science” has changed.
Having said all of this, I live in a blue state (NM) that may be the last one standing to STILL require the damn things everywhere & virtually everyone in the northern part of the state is totally compliant, w/ the more conservative southern part where I live having been non compliant (including businesses) almost from the start.
Bingo. It’s about getting grants for fake studies, giving purpose for more grants. It gives meaning to people who buy into the climate agenda. Nancy Pelosi costs were 1/2 million on private jets last yr. but she cares about climate. Well, why wasn’t she flying commercial with all the other slobs?
Who remembers the dumb masking meme that went around? The "common sense science" one that compared outcomes of someone peeing when two people were not wearing pants, one person was or both of them were? The argument was you're much more likely to get pee on you if neither of you wears pants and pee is equivalent to a respiratory virus. Yay science!
Gorski--makes me want to puke. That shitstain should be on trial. I'll just repeat what Geert Vanden Bossche said about him, that he's "an illiterate little weasel."
And right now on Twitter there's lots of performative SMDHs over kids in LA needing to mask right after the shall we say hedonistic abandon at the SB. To which I've been replying: what will you do with your considerable follower voice other than remarking upon it?
I mean--I got a grand total of 3 followers. And the voices who've had integrity and courage from the beginning--like our Fabulous Felid--were banned. If you have any social media at this point, just please post "what are you doing for the kids?"
Because the truth of the matter is this — no one else is coming to save you. People in free (mostly red) states are already over covid and have been for a while now. Their kids are going to school without masks, the bars are open, and the football stadiums are packed. Those places are doing just as well as places that are ‘locked up’ tight. And here’s a tip: people in those places aren’t going to protest for your freedom, especially after the ‘experts’ (and Twitter) have been calling them names for at least the last couple years.
Your leaders are all-in with the mania. They are bought and paid for. There will be no help there. No, this is up to you and it’s long past time to stand up and do something about it.
“it was painfully obvious right from the beginning that the whole notion was invented as a low energy path for performative “doing something.
“it accentuated a sense of crisis, alienated individuals, and carved out bright lines of social conflict. and it did nothing at all of epidemiological value. this was known and knowable.”
Thanks, gato, that articulates perfectly why I refuse to wear a mask at Mass. The parish church is holy ground, sacred space specifically anointed and consecrated to the worship of God. It is His house. Wearing a mask is bringing the profane into sacred space. The mask was selected as the manipulative globalist lie, and there is great glee in the Screwtapian underworld as they observe the fear and compliance. I refuse to bring the lie into sacred space.
Of course, the noose is ever tightening, and finding churches in Catholic Canuckistan where one may be maskless is dwindling. The righteous karens have taken care of that. Not to mention spineless bishops. But, then again, our faith transcends karens and spineless prelates, all glory be to God.
Up here in Alberta the schools have a zero mask mandate as of this morning - will be interesting to poll my kids to see how many still wear them. My oldest is in Grade 12 and is probably the only kid in his class not jabbed. King Kenny and Queen Henshaw have deemed the adults can throw away the masks on 1st March only if we clean our rooms and eat our greens, or science or something.
Why are they waiting until March 1? Reminds me if that video going around where the NV school kids get all excited because they can go maskless “this coming Monday”. Why not now?!
Natural selection is merciless. To all those wearing masks: F Them, with interest. If the masks are damaging health, great. A cull of the stupid is always good for the species.
It was a panicked attempt to scrape together some symbolic vestige of collectivism. It was ideological panic stacked up on mounting ideological derangement that existed before covid.
They'll claim instead that the unmasked are causing other people to get sick and die. That one was pulled on me at my favorite local grocery store when I refused to wear a mask. And they wouldn't check out my groceries unless I put on a mask. So the store is no longer my favorite -- or even my store. I told them flat out that I wouldn't return until they changed their policy.
It's a "both of the above." I've said from the beginning that the masking and "social distancing" (which is really antisocial) were meant to isolate us from each other and train us to fear and distrust each other.
These maskholes are lunatics and have found something that gives their lives meaning. They don't want to let go of this as they would have to return to their impotent existence.
Newbie here … is there a link to the “ WHO’s 2019 study of masks vs respiratory virus”. The table apparently from that study is awesome. Although I have both Googled/Binged for the WHO study, more recent COVID19 studies have swamped my search results.
Man, if the masks did anything we’d freakin’ know by now—whether we followed crack data analyst kitties possessing extraordinary writing and logic skills or not. The unmasked would be disappearing from society as they died off in their hundreds of thousands and millions and the masked would be relatively unscathed—I mean, given a virus that is capable of doing such damage, like in 1918.
So, the flip side, the fact that no such thing is happening, makes it blatant that the masks are a waste of resources at best.
And yet… what is blatant means nothing to the adherents of the cult.
And now the mayors of some Ohio cities still have mask mandates. I don't wear one anywhere except at the salon where my stylist will be evicted if her clients don't wear masks. And I don't really "wear" it even there. I've been with her for almost 30 years and I don't want to ditch her or get her evicted -- so I hold the mask in my hand about an inch from my face.
To be fair, I think it was decent of David Gorski to take the glass of whisky and the revolver and retire to the back room to do the decent thing. If only more of those who were smug, self-righteous and wrong would follow his lead. If only.
And not for nothing... how is this going to work for kids who have been permamasked because their frightened adults have told them if they go bare-faced they will sure die? Mental breakdown before kindergarten is probably not the making of a mentally stable adult.
Our school mask mandate was just lifted last Thursday. My kids (elementary and middle) said still, only 30% of students have given up their masks. 70% of their classmates continue because their parents tell them to wear it. I would think if a kid saw other classmates unmasked, they would immediately shed their mask no matter what their parent said. They have become attached to them, I saw that for a minute with my son. 100% of teachers are still masked.
There's a CDC meta-study from April 2020 on this, as well. If memory serves, it reviewed 17 studies on masks' ability to reduce influenza spread and came to the conclusion they were ineffective. It was immediately buried because that is precisely when Fauci began transitioning to 'we need masks; I lied to help the medical profession.'
But, we're still not out of the woods. Just yesterday, you had knuckleheads like Biden and Walensky say that mask theater must go on.
The politics is starting to diverge from Big Pharma's bottom line. It will be interesting if BP and the media they bought will allow the panic to die, or if they'll throw Biden under the bus and treat him like Trump.
I live in NSW Australia. 90% of people are wearing masks. The mandate is for indoors only but the majority still keep them on for outside too. I refuse to wear one and unfortunately I’m such a rarity. I’m lucky and haven’t had any Karens yell at me but also I’m also so surprised how little I get asked. So far I’ve only been kicked out of one store which ironically was a whole foods bulk food store called “Pure”.
In our state High school kids have to wear it in school but thankfully primary schools is only recommended. None of the kids in my son’s school bother. He did come home yesterday though saying he was forced to wear one in class by the teacher and I went tiger mum on the school. Called up the teacher and said he is to NEVER be forced or made to wear a mask. No way I want to start that precedent.
Two sad but hilarious aspects of the theater are that N95s are not earloop masks, so those are all counterfeits. Second, there is no N95 mask approved for use by children, period.
Now if anyone says anything to me about "where's your MASK!" I just point to my hat and say "I've got this. It does exactly the same thing."
And the ones who have "dutifully" worn their giant devil's diaper get sick and ask, "why"? And yet they still dutifully wear their diaper (after all, "they" said we have to...). It's mind boggling. And then there are us "amateurs" who have actually worn masks for decades (on the job) and know what they can and can't do... we are ignored or called deniers.
Using your favorite non google search engine, enter the subject "git-mo detainees face masks". The mask mandate has never been about stopping the spread of disease, ever. And how many people have we all seen riding alone in their cars, windows up and masks on. Totally subjugated!
Even just the physics of masks for slowing the spread of viruses predicts they'll be next to worthless. The filter layer of a surgical mask is the tightest layer of material, but that layer still has pores at least 5 microns wide.
When suspended flu particles were sized up, the median size was just 1 micron. Half of flu particles are submicron. Flu and SARS-CoV-2 are similar-sized virions, so it can be expected that half of all suspended SARS-CoV-2 is ALSO submicron.
Upshot: The smallest pores in a surgical mask are still 5 times larger than they need to be to let at least half of all suspended SARS-CoV-2 particles get through them.
The gaps between the mask and your face may be dozens of microns in size. If there are a few 20-40 micron gaps after you put your mask on, then how hard will it be for a 1-micron COVID particle to get through?
If a basketball hoop was 20-40 times the diameter of the basketball, then anyone could make the shot -- from anywhere on the court.
The problem with that analysis is that it's based on the size of the virus particle, when the virus particle does not travel solo. It's attached to something - a droplet or whatever - and it's the size of the droplet or whatever that needs to be addressed in the context of the layers of a mask. AFAIK, that is.
That's what they said because that was the only way masks can work even in theory. If the virus is airborne, it's already entering your body through your uncovered eyes. This is why they had to quickly walk back the 'airborne virus' talk fairly early in the pandemic. If the virus is airborne masks CAN'T work.
(Even their theory was wildly incorrect, though. Let's imagine that my mask DOES stop that water droplet with the virus inside. Now the droplet evaporates. What happens next time I breathe out?)
Actually, virion size of SARS-CoV-2 is less than that of the measles virus (less than 0.22 microns). I actually was talking about the particle size which the virions would be suspended within.
“but even this wholesale fabrication “for your protection” was insufficient. there was a need to impose a moral dimension and thus was born the entirely invented tagline of ‘your mask protects me.’ “
This is the type of thinking that results when individuals refuse the responsibility of thinking for themselves, and hire out moral decision-making to the crowd.
Utilitarianism is an abomination.
The downfall of our civilization will not come from without, but will be a result of our own flawed thinking.
50% still masked outside in my Karenland neighborhood, the trauma goes much deeper than cosplay.
Yup. In my rural, practically deserted seacoast village, the poor creatures wear the face diaper outdoors at our windy hilltop recycling station.
And more people are wearing them at Stop & Shop now than few months ago. It seems to have become a like a pacifier that they can't stop suckling.
the ones wearing the N95 and KN95 masks are the most traumatized. Also the ones wearing the strap to make the two masks fit more tightly. And the few who still wear the faceshield over the masks. And the latex gloves.
Im AZ, which does NOT have a mask mandate, universities in both Phx & Tucson are REQUIRING the N95 as spactators! No other type will do, as if ANY of them do ANYTHING @ all! It’s unhinged
Busily producing the Soylent Green generation. And we've thought the merely hysteric student generation was bad...
*In AZ & *spectators, geez 🙄
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You're describing the ones that go outside! A few months back my mum (75) visiting her mother in law invited her neighbour (65) out. She then revealed it was the first time she'd been out of the house for 18months!
My mother is 87 and she simply got on with her life. Saw instantly the deviousness of the British parliament departing Westminster and said " we'd have lost the war with this lot in power". She has had to watch her compliant and much younger friend succumb to galloping dementia.
Virtual hugs to your wiser mother.
About Sept 2020 in my blue state I heard: "some people haven't even left their house yet" i.e. in 6 or 7 months.... so , no sunlight - air in just about all indoor settings is not high quality ... a "diabolical" outcome?
Crazy
ONe virus particle can cause death in that room I guess
The power of imposed manipulative fear.
sad. if this poor soul catches a common cold, I hope her immune system hasn't deteriorated so much it can't save her.
Someone should disable her TV.
25% of my elementary daughter’s classmates wear N95s. How will they turn out ok physically or emotionally? Really sad.
Outside in the rain..alone..wet surgical masks & kn95s! The Biden/CDC is not leading people forward to any level of normalcy, health or sanity much less “Morning in America”. The mask optics coming out of the White House are an absurdist dystopian black mirror episode. No wonder this continues apace and broken (revealed) people are so attached to this dehumanizing performance theater. Mask mandates are used to elevate fear, isolate, stress out and ultimately to push the Vax agenda.
Jen Psaki doesn't wear a mask in her propaganda meetings, why is she not protecting the little propagandaistas from NBA, ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fox?
No panic. The Walmart has started to disinfect every counter used for self checkout. Cashier back in masks. In Belgium full nazi still. Only 3 visits a week in hospitals, one hour, one person, mask on and triple vaxxed.
At least I can sort of respect those who wear N95 masks. No, they don't do anything to stop the spread of Covid, but at least they're not *obviously* useless, like the cloth masks of T-shirt material most of these NPCs are walking around with (and attempting to shame others about). One has to wonder if these people would also believe that a chain link fence could stop a sandstorm...
Much more effective bacteria, co2 and water vapour traps. Therefore better killing machines.
Yeah they are, because N95s are not earloop masks. Those are non-working replicas, to put it kindly.
I don’t respect anyone wearing masks, since all they represent is compliance to the state’s “right” to usurp my bodily control & autonomy. If our maker meant for us to not only breathe thru a filter, he’d have made us that way. If our maker wanted us to rebreathe CO2 & have snot, sweat, secretions & bacteria plastered to our faces, he’d have designed that too.
All that said, any idiots who get off on all of that…you do you
I respect them like Dumber & Dumberer.
Speaking of cloth & tee shirt material, I ordered a couple unlined LACE masks on Etsy so I can breathe 😂. You have to look kind of close to even notice & people just don’t. They just assume anything covering 1/2 your face is legit 🙄
Even “official” masks (what a joke, no such thing) say they don’t prevent germs from coming in.
My community emergency prep committee bought cases of KN95s to sell as a fund raiser. I told them they are useless for viruses, and they give the wearer a false sense of security. I said they were spreading misinformation and offered the chart of studies gato shows above. No response, of course! And the sheep bought up all the masks in 4 hours!
My husband will be going to a basketball game in Tucson next week, the U of A requiring an N95 just to watch. I went to Amazon to find a pack & noticed many were KN & not N so I researched the difference. KNs are apparently made in CHINA while Ns are made here. I guess if he has to wear the damn thing, I’m NOT getting anything made in China! Haven’t watched one second of the Olympics either!
Both are made in China. Kn95 is rated for China, N95 is rated for the US.
They are completely different products. A KN95 is not a fitted industrial mask. It's a differently shaped and equally useless (for viruses) surgical mask.
In drug stores around here they're sold right next to the stupid blue slave muzzles.
O well, they’re ALL useless
Are those that look like they are from outer space?
I was walking Georgetown Lake, sparsely visited.
But I was on back trail and dude looked like he was an insect. WHY????
That was probably a respirator, but not rated for viral aerosols 🤪
OMG yes I am in a somewhat sane place ! I have only seen one of those, in a government building working behind a plastic shield.
Living in Karenland here... about the same situation... My blood boils when I see kids younger than toddler age peering out from their little masked faces as if in shock. I think they are.
I had to reprimand two different parents for that during a brief visit to the grocery store yesterday. I calmly tell them to their faces that while their face diaper is merely ridiculous, their kids' are child abuse. Usually I get no response. Yesterday, however, both did that weird thing where they say "thank you". I assume this is some technique they learned in confrontation avoidance classes.
Your heart may be in the right place, but shaming someone into changing their behaviors or beliefs is counterproductive. Those people love their kids deeply and are doing their own personal best to keep them safe (facts notwithstanding). Accusing them of abuse will, quite understandably, put them on the defensive and only give them more confidence in their position.
Hide the truth. Just what we need JC.. you coward
Hey there John. I don't think of it that way, so I think we must be misunderstanding each other somewhat. Could you explain more? Alternatively, is there anything specific you'd like me to answer? Always looking for ways to understand and communicate with folks better and meet them where they are.
JC, tell them the truth, that they are psychologically damaging their children.
The commies have been shaming us, immorally doing it.
My Dad hated me. No one ever said anything... mom, aunts, uncles, teachers, Priests.... into my 50s, I believed Jesus hated me.
One adult saying something, anything, would have been worth a week of being hit
I take your point, and I do not have a sense that I am necessarily doing the right or best thing when I make those comments to parents. Still, when I speak to these neurotic creatures, I try to maintain an even, informational tone as opposed to one of accusation, if for no other reason than to avoid alarming the kids.
I often don't say anything, which does not feel good. But sometimes I cannot help myself when I see those little masked faces; I want to rescue the kids from a life of neurosis by waking their parents up.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply and I appreciate the perspective. It's a hard line to walk. The irony is that one of the things I think would help the most - honest person-to-person communication, complete with tone, body language, and compassionate listening - is really challenging with a face covering and 6' of social distance. My hope is that by just being there, cheerfully buying bananas and smiling like it's 2019, I'll be a good example and a calming influence, even though I suspect they just wish I'd keep my distance.
Really? Tell me how the parents who volunteered their kids for the initial drug trials were trying to keep them safe. You know, the trials where they can't even suggest the drugs are safe, because that's what the trial is trying to establish.
Unfortunately, I can't tell you their reasoning - only they know that for sure - but I can offer some possibilities.
At its core, it may just come down to the fear and panic encouraged by mainstream news coverage driving irrational behavior. A Gallup poll conducted in Q4 2020 showed many people believed that covid hospitalization rate was 50%! Not only that, but they also severely overestimated the risk to children (and accordingly underestimated the risk to the elderly). Given these faulty baseline assumptions, I can easily see how terrified parents who've had no reason to mistrust doctors in the past would consider the trials the less risky option.
As for why they believed that... well, that's a whole other topic, but Gato's and others' posts about government control, media narratives, and censorship have a lot to do with it. Good information exists (we're on this forum, after all), but both the technological means of finding it (censored misinformation!) and the mindset to openly and fairly consider a new viewpoint (evil anti-vaxxers!) that could shake someone's entire identity are considerable challenges.
Confronting evil is the only way to provide instruction to evildoers. Love consists of both confrontation AND charity. The notion that love must only be endless forgiveness and acceptance is how Western society got into this horrible mess over the last 60 years. The left have been so successful, that they even distorted our traditional morality into a heresy, and nobody realized it was happening.
One problem is that each side equally thinks that the other side is the evildoers. For example, if you read your post from the perspective of a pro-vax, pro-mask person, then I'm the evil that must be confronted! I've cautiously spoken to N95ers at the park - not to lecture or to manipulate, but to understand. They won't convince me and I won't convince them, and outright hostility will make us both unwilling to even listen, but if we can connect just a little at a time, I consider that progress.
Earlier I was being polite and providing instruction, but obviously that approach had no effect.
Your latest response is just a sly attempt to move the goalposts of the original issue, specifically the necessity of directly confronting evil. You've used what's called the motte and bailey logical fallacy. The only thing you've really accomplished is to act like the tone police. In addition, your appeal to moral equivalence is a standard copout for those who don't have any viable arguments, but are still trying to pretend they represent some kind of 'third way' moral high ground. Moral equivalence is not an argument, it's a logical fallacy and a refuge for sanctimonious cowards.
I don't know who you're trying to fool, although it's quite possibly yourself. As for the rest of us, we see right through you, so I suggest you stop now before you embarrass yourself any further. One more thing: I suggest you look in the mirror if you ever wonder how our society got into this mess in the first place.
There is a very short clip floating around of the reaction of a Nevada grade school class of kids being told they would not have to wear masks anymore - it is only about 20 seconds or so.
Just a thought: approach these parents with vid ready to go "hey have you seen this?" and just hit play. Then say 'have a nice day' and walk away.
Any parent who goes on masking their kid will feel like shit after seeing that - as a parent you want your kid to be happy - and those kids were overjoyed to be free to breathe and communicate and play again as they need to do - it really hits the message home.
If you get a parent that wants to argue 'oh, I see, it's your intent to put your kid at a competitive disadvantage for life.....never mind then."
They will be some assholes in the moment but the parent WILL be thinking about it later - no one wants to disadvantage their kid!
I think I know the video you mean. That's a good idea!
You're a good soul.
Well, thanks, I rarely get accused of that!
Telling the truth is considered mean, since Vatican II Robber Council. There's a tiny segment that actually sees it as an act of charity, like me.
Btw, I pray Rosary across the street from the once Catholic Church in my town, now a Vatican II desecrated false Church under false pope, nwo whore Francis.
I pray Blessed Virgin Mary will bring Catholic faith back into it, give us a Pope, a Bishop here in Austin Tx
I imagine that this works about as well as somebody telling you to wear a mask. Not at all would be my guess.
Eric told them the truth... some will hear the truth.
No one will hear you... go back to your cave and be silent, then. Great plan.
When the world needed to hear truth, , when our voices were almost silenced,, you urged more silence.
The reason Their words meant nothing...because they were lies.
What's this, Cowards Anonymous?
What are you expecting to have happen? For these parents to rip the masks off, throw them in the air and yell "that is great news, you are our hero!"
For a percentage to hear, and at some point stop the behavior.
The rest, to not complain when Jesus sends them to hell... truth is for many things.
Our (I don't know who's side your on,,)... preeminent weapon Is Truth.
At Vatican II Robber Council, vast majority of Bishops committed treason. The handful, out of thousands, didn't sign these heretical documents BUT THEY KEPT THEIR MOUTHS SHUT.
Treason, just another way
You might be only light for these abused children.
Hearing you speak for them might keep them going
I took my 3yro granddaughter to the playground on Friday. A little boy, slightly older than her, played the entire time with his face diaper on. They played tag and I kept waiting for him to get dizzy and pass out. The 2 grandparents that had brought him, were unmuzzled, so I assume this was some sort of daycare ritual, being played out.
It is a ritual. Satanic ritual. Black masses use masks. And if you don't believe in the spiritual aspect of this lunacy, then look to the secular ritual of masking in China. We are following the demonic communist playbook with masks.
Nah, probably his parents, Karen and Kurt, told the grandparents to make him wear it or they couldn't see him anymore.
So young, he likely got used to wearing it and now feels uncomfortable without it.
Until my oldest was 5 he wore a costume everyday. We had a bin full of choices and even after school he would take off his school clothes and put spiderman or a power ranger or his little scrubs. He had a school uniform, so that was his school time costume but any other time of day was make believe time. He always wore a cloth mask, it was more of a full face, sometimes full headed cloth mask. If I had young kids during covid-times I would had made them a bunch of dress-up masks, really just so they would have been allowed to wear costumes at school and say it's appropriate masking. Having raised 4 sons, I can absolutely see preschool kids not easily giving up the mask.
This makes me think of an article last week, where it stated, those that hid Anne Frank and her family, broke the law. Those that killed them followed the law. When you have your child jabbed with poison you are a hero. When you don't traumatize your child you are a vilain. The world has gone insane. I hope the truck exhausts detoxes the toxins in those damaged brains
I recently read a piece, someone had seen a parent attempt to bribe their 13-14 years-old son to get the vaccine without hassle in exchange for a desired new video game. The boy was firm, he'd had covid, he wasn't going to have the vaccine as well. My first thought was that the author's perspective would be to praise the young man and encourage him to continue to stand up for himself. Nope. It was an essay regarding the poor parenting practice of using bribery to purchase desired behavior.
Howdy neighbor!
Just the other day I saw 2 young girls alone on the block, walking their dog, fully masked in oversized ill-fitting home depot n95's. Sadly ridiculous. Couple of blocks later there was a child barely walking upright without tumbling over, nearly running into the street, mother no where near enough to grab him. Almost made my heart stop. Fortunately, the driver was paying attention! Must have seen the fluorescent orange cloth mask the baby was wearing.
That's the first case I've heard of a mask actually saving a life in the time of Covid. Don't tell too many people, or the CDC will mandate fluorescent orange mask wearing for all babies, because.... Science™ and all.
I just heard about a daycare in Colorado Springs that wants babies to wear masks so they’ll be used to them by the time they’re in preschool.
F'ing ridiculous. It's not about illness prevention, it's about raising up a controlled generation.
It's as if they just really do not want to give them up. I don't think it's fear. My theory is that it's self-loathing.
Do they want to signal they are good children and didn’t need to be made to wear them because they knew just how effective they were intuitively? Or perhaps taking them off now acknowledges they serve no public health purpose and if that is so now, with virus still circulating, they served no public health purpose in the first place. Or the are just so stupid and incapable of thinking for themselves, they need Mummy to tell them to stop wearing them ?
I have asked some of my mask-wearing friends. A 14yo has been wearing them since he was 12, and he says he is "used to them" because he wears one all day at school, and they keep his face warm in the winter weather, so he just doesn't think about taking it off.
A 50-yo mom is anxious and fearful and admitted to me that since she has received her third jab, she once again feels safe. Also, she has developed acne from the mask wearing, so she prefers covering that up, now.
A 25-yo woman enjoys being able to walk down the street without revealing her expression to anyone. She can scowl at people without them knowing and doesn't "have to smile."
A 60-yo man has received all three of his shots, caught COVID (twice!) anyway, and believes he needs to do his part by wearing his mask while walking around inside, but the danger magically goes away whenever he sits down at a table.
These folks and many others I know live here in Karenland where there is still a mask mandate in place, with helpful reminder signs posted everywhere, and even if they don't believe in the masks, they would rather "go along to get along" and not risk being called out by others for noncompliance. Because, you know, this is a liberal area and if you buck the norm, you might be thought of as a conservative, right wing, racist homophobe transphobe Christian selfish idiot. Keep your nose down, keep your mask on, keep your job, keep your friends, and hope this ends soon.
Very few will take the mask off and be an obvious mask denier. But many think it's stupid -- and do it anyway. Because the government says so.
´… she once again feels safe. Also, she has developed acne from the mask wearing, so she prefers covering that up, now.´
And her acne gets worse meaning she has to keep wearing the mask which makes her acne worse so she has to wear a mask which makes her acne worse which means she has to wear a mask… I have a headache.
At least a headache is better than the bacterial pneumonia that the acned mask wearer is inviting.
Yeah in England before the Omicron mask re-mandate (announced to start 5 days later) I was stood in the centre of Chester city and watching 95% of people wander happily around without masks thinking "tomorrow, you'll all be wearing masks..."
It's a sort of numbing thought to me that so many fellow countrymen who I used to hold in high regard will follow whatever rule they get given to follow regardless.
I felt like getting a board and a loud-hailer and telling them all. Maybe I should have. I guess I even worry about my job and career and the slim probability it would make any difference.
I continue to be amazed at how unquestioningly compliant so many people are willing to be in today's world. Just astounding.
Those people need to keep their psychosis to themselves
In olden days they'd be in insane asylums not making mandates for sane people.
How sad. It's just sad.
I think it’s the admitting they were misled/wrong. Cognitive dissonance forces them to hold onto their error. “The facts just don’t know how smart I am”.
It's the old Mark Twain saying, "It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled."
But--here's the thing. YOU are NOT their parent. YOU have NO CONTROL over what happens to them when they are out of your sight. You forget, they are children and really don't have any say. Encourage them to defy Mummy and it is them, not you, who will face the consequences behind closed doors. Because you really don't know what Mummy is like when nobody is looking, do you? There are some very abusive parents out there, who know how to hide the abuse and what kind of face to put on in public, and you really don't know what kind of parent you are dealing with when you are dealing with a stranger. I'd be very careful about confronting parents in public.
Forcing masks on people, never mind children, is high level abuse and needs to be dealt with accordingly.
Something needs to be said.
Perhaps--but sometimes it's the children who pay for what you say.
Keep silent so you only get abused A Little. ????!!!! Are you a commie, Tam?
They're ALREADY paying
I think you have misunderstood. I was talking about adults - allegedly.
There is an element of truth to that for some of them I think. Why else would you continue to wear that viralbacteria bomb? Why else would you trust someone you do not know and who has shown himself unworthy of trust over yourself unless you know or think you are an utter dipsh*t?
I am guessing that most people here did not hear their parents say "Oh if "x" jumped off the bridge you would be there following him into the water". But they did hear "My GOSH kid, can't you just get along!"
The answer to that is HELL NO.
Oh I'm sure they were taught that. Problem is, people have become unable to recognize situations where cautionary tales have to be applied to a real life scenario. Which is why they also don't know when, how, and why to apply historical context to contemporary events.
"Oh those are just stories!" they say. "That happened long ago to those people OVER THERE. Could never happen here" they cry.
So Darling, what you are saying is we are abuncha hoohawin, crack scratchin idyuts. Yeh. I have no problem with that. Totally true.
That’s right. Nobody taught these people, when they were kids, any sense of independence and don’t be a copy cat. Constantly supervised, not allowed to get dirty or maybe fall out of a tree and stay close to Mummy because there’s a pædeophile behind every lamp post. I suppose one might say these people have been socially distanced and protected from the disease that is life all their lives. They do not know how to assess risk and manage it.
"I suppose one might say these people have been socially distanced and protected from the disease that is life all their lives. They do not know how to assess risk and manage it. "
Sad but True Award of the day goes to you John. Hope you have kids.
Narsassitic paranoia and fear obsession.
They provide a false sense of anonymity. As a woman, fewer people are able to notice my smile, hope I am smiling at them and attempt to strike up an unwelcome conversation.
Just something I've noticed here in LA-LA-Land. I recognized more than a year ago that I would likely continue to wear a mask periodically on errands; frees me from unwanted superficial conversation and flirtation.
I am in no way suggesting a mask is effective at stopping the spread of covid. Just that it seems to slow the spread of attention from unwelcome a$$holes.
And, no doubt, from good people. Expectations can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I hate to say it, I HATE to see it, but in my neighborhood it's well over 50% still, even though Hochul the Fascist Harpy has graciously told us we can take them off (until she sends us to the camps she's building). I live in a totally psychotic neighborhood in NYC. Many are double masked, outside, on a beautiful sunny day. I know about mass formation but I am still gobsmacked by the stupidity of it all.
We might be in the same neighborhood, comrade.
"Comrade", eh? Old habits never die, tovarish.
I don't know. I think lots of people when presented with a problem, are just too lazy to think about it on their own. If someone comes along and offers to solve it for them, they're only too happy to go along.
Higher in Seattle. Probably 75% outside wearing masks. The shocking thing is: I've seen some of them take them off on occasion. Their noses are black. There is a thick layer of fur growing all over their faces. And, they seem to speak a different language that I can't understand. Sounds like 'bleat, bleat, bleat." Anyone else seeing this?
Masks are MAGA hats for Democrats.
Actually, I misspoke:
Masks are MAGA hats for Democrats' children.
No mask mandates in my state, other than that a few school districts may still be forcing masks on students. Yet when my spouse and I went shopping over the weekend at a couple of large chain stores, probably 50-60% of the customers were masked, along with all of the employees.
I see relatively few people masked outdoors. It's the ones who still wear a mask while driving alone that leave me shaking my head. Saw one last week.
No mask mandates (as if I'd care if there was) here in OK, either... but in my job, I drive around all day, and every day I see at least a handful of idiots wearing masks, alone in their cars. If I happen to be stopped beside one at a traffic light, I tend to stare at them until they see me ... and then just shake my head in derision (not that it has any discernible effect, mind you.) I usually just get the "big eye" treatment. 😂
Same as in my people's democratic republic of karenbrigde
Hehe. People's Republic of North Karenea.
I theorize those who took the shot continue to wear the masks in an attempt to quell the fear of the virus and as an effect of the gene-changing, permanently compliant behavior.
I live on the coast in Northern California. A sign on a second-hand store reads: We require face masks. We don't allow sudden outbursts of FREEDOM.
Kinda makes me nostalgic for the perpetually perturbed pink p*ssyhats. At least back when it was TDS and the death throes of vestigial post-feminist manhate, they were smiling. In this we see the whole point of the self-destruction that is the prog left. It must consume everything good and beautiful and right. Their eyes tell the story.
Some people just wanna be freaks
Even here in Bumfuck, Oklahoma....I see it every damn day. It's not only nauseating, the utter lack of commonsense is maddening. 😡
Ha I wish. More like 99% here in the Bay Area Karen centra. Some even with gloves and face shield.
Someone commented on Twitter that Dr Dre who performed at halftime of the Super Bowl was “the most believable doctor we’ve seen on national TV in 2 years”.
https://twitter.com/alancornett/status/1493033163358097411
Still
I just wonder if people like my sisters who wore double masks, yelled at my mom through a bull horn from the back yard, and made her sit in a cold garage for Christmas will ever admit how idiotically wrong they were? (Probably not....sigh)
It's like a Monty Python sketch, only not funny.
Much like an insurance policy from Mr. Devious,
Masks are a peeeeeerrrrrrrrfectly worthwhile safety measure as long as you don't want to promote safety in the slightest way.
spot on... or SNL
Wtf I am so sorry. The worst and only offender in my circle is my spouse since he’s in the middle of the brainwash as a medical professional. Hopefully he will awaken at some point. At least he’s not scared shitless anymore like he was until March 2021. It’s tough for people like us who are close to someone who drunk the koolaid. At least he thinks outside masking is crazy. Baby steps…
Wow. A medical person scared shitless for a whole year over a cold? That's why I avoid the medical industry at all costs.
He never dealt with Covid patients. But as a hospital employee the daily brainwash how many cases they had and they’re in the icu was nuts. He really thought I was gonna die and the kids will die. It’s a slow progress now. He still gets flustered when I point out the deaths weren’t in healthy young folks. But now that most of his coworkers who are triple jabbed got the omicold it did induce a change. It’ll take time. He thinks the cdc is always right. It shows med school teaches you to be a follower without critical thinking skills.
But hey I used to be very democrat and then woke up. It happens. So not losing my enthusiasm and positivity.
Is there a class med students take where they're told to ignore statistics and just go with whatever the cute pharma babe tells them?
Are you sure it required a full wash? Sounds like only a light rinse was necessary.
A bull horn? That is chilling.
and let me add that the "Christmas celebration" was in the great lakes region and the garage doors were open. Mom was 94 at the time.....all she could talk about was how COLD she was that afternoon.
Why would 94 year old mom be the one in the garage? Seems like the deluded sisters should have sat outside.
They were all in the garage with the doors open celebrating (use the term loosely) Christmas- with masks on in 35 degree weather. My stupid nepew was there too. When I questioned him about the temp. he said "it wasn't that cold, I only had my hoody on"- wasn't talking about YOU idiot!!! yikes!
that is absolutely sickening.
and why I don't talk much with my "sisters"- but they will still take $ from her when she offers of course!
Gross.
pure, unadulterated elder-abuse...possibly criminal.
If I didn't know how insane some people have been through this, I wouldn't believe this. Alas...
someone needs to collect all these stories of insanity.
Cold physically and more so from the way she was treated. Criminal. Where is the compassion from these hypochondriacs?
Words can’t describe what I would say to that person who made their 94 y/o mom sit outside in the cold for Christmas. Someone needed to step in and stop that nonsense. Pure evil.
Abusive sisters. I’d never allow them around my children.
let me just pull out my handy-dandy bull horn! what normal person even owns one? lol
I have 2 sisters and if they behaved like that, I’d never let them forget it. My younger sister is an RN and said she’s done with the Pfizer fantasy. Upon receiving her booster, she felt like she was running a fever of 103, yet she had no fever. This went on for 4 days and she still had to go to work.
I had a good laugh talking to my brother the other day. He and his wife went to a New Year's celebration with about 20 people, all vaxxed. Everyone still had to do a quick covid test to attend. About a week later, half of them got Covid, despite their "negative" tests.
so 3rd time lucky? (in terms of having enough of the BS) hmmm.... seems to be the boy Who cried wolf limit; the 3 option joke-punchline; only in Israel have they pushed on with the 4th - to further more disastrous consequences. On the plus-side this is exactly how a world-wide response should go... i.e. divide countries up and make them stick to very rigid deployments of early treatments etc. albeit Danmask study was able to be conducted with statistical significance on districts of several thousand.... really we have the ability as a globe to run several thousand randomised trials. That's how I would have liked to have seen my country/planet run it.
I invited myself to my parents for Christmas 2020 ("illegal" at the time) and my sisters kicked off. The eldest the most. Then she demanded we had a front lawn distanced gift-giving. In the middle of which I walked behind her and fake-spat in her hair. She burst out crying, my 18year old son burst out laughing. Hey I'm the younger brother so goes with the territory.
Anyway she recovered enough to then hypocritically need the toilet and went inside the house and then made herself a coffee.
2021 not much better I haven't spoken since she and her partner accused me and my family of endangering everyone "like waving a loaded gun around" by not being vaxxed.
Hey ho.
Someone somewhere might be gloating at the fractured families, but the "it happened for a reason" part of me thinks finally I know who really is caring and thoughtful to me and my kids and who isn't.
“Fake spat in her hair”!!! I’m laughing so hard I can’t type.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ooh that brotherly/sisterly love ! Right there with you...hahah!
Good one!!
omg...how sad! And here I am in Karenland (Oregon) trying to get my 19 y.o. to understand the truth about political manipulation and how masks don't do shit. Unfortunately, she's of college age and attends a very progressive college in the most progressive city (Portland). So, I gotta bite my tongue and pick my arguments very carefully.
I know this is controversial, but if you are are helping financially or cosigning on loans, etc, I would stop unless your child goes to a nonindoctrinating college. Because it is hurting these students more than it's helping them, so you don't want your money going to an organization that is actively abusing your kid both psychologically (toxic ideas that ruin their relationships) and physically (vaccine mandates). We have a college ready student and believe the most loving thing to do is only offer financial support towards opportunities that help her thrive. Thankfully, she gets it!
Where are you in OR? Was in stayton Safeway last week and amazed at 20% or more maskless even with permanent mandates
I'm in Oregon City. I avoid PDX as much as possible. Here in Clackamas County, I just walk into establishments WITHOUT a mask. I'm not looking for confrontation but I do make them ask me. So far, no one has. Even yesterday on Main St. OC, I walked into a restaurant (with signs on the door) like I owned the place, and NO ONE said a word. We must ignore the posters and walk in without masks. Let's put the onus on them. ;-)
Oh believe me, I do. I have been confronted by a Karen at PDX but I loudly said to my husband ‘I’m being confronted by a Karen, trying to lecture me on public health policy. Typical Portlander.’
She actually shrunk back. I’m in healthcare. I also understand the difference between a mandate and a law, unlike 100% of the Karen’s out there
She feels important and "in control"- would be my guess. Your poor mom...
California/LA mask mandates had zero compliance at the Super Bowl. Elites, pols, Hollywood, media and peons alike ignored the "law". No mention of this universal civil disobedience in Tinsel Town. Good to know that Garcetti is a serial liar or he can hold his breath for 4 hours.
I called it in my article before the game yesterday -- the only people masked up were "The Help".
Too bad '"the help" didn't rip their masks off since all the attendees were maskless. Who could say anything to them at that point?
Sadly, the asshole signing the checks.
Shows them their place. :sarcasm end
Saw a video on Twitter by the @LADailyNews with LA Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer (@LApublichealth) doing an interview from the Super Bowl, up in the stands. The interviewer was wearing a black surgical mask, she was wearing a black N95-style mask. Neither mask was well-fitted. They both fidgeted constantly with their masks for the entire 60-second clip, pulling them up every few seconds, touching the presumably-contaminated front constantly. No one anywhere around them had a mask on.
It's not a giant mystery why masks can't work in real life - just watch people wearing them. It's rare that somebody goes a full minute without screwing with it.
Remember how rule #1 was DON'T TOUCH YOUR FACE?
Shhhhh!
She’s especially moronic. Right up there with Sara Cody in Santa Clara county.
I never understood the "don't touch the mask" advice. I mean, virions on the outside of the mask are there because they were floating around in the air and stuck. Your hands are also out in the air and so virions are sticking to your hands too. WTF? Unless masks are magical virion magnets vacuuming the things up from the air. In that case, you'd want that mask as far away from your face as possible!
Your hands are also playing with your phone. And itching your face. And a million other things.
Here in the Bay Area at the beginning of 2020 they told kids to stop touching anything cause viruses. Like kids will be able to control that.
I watched for a few minutes and noticed that no one was wearing the masks. My daughter thought that vaccinated people were allowed to take them off. SMH Were they asking for vax status at the gate? I hope not.
I thought LA requires the vax pass like San Francisco. Nobody unhabbed over 5 allowed.
I heard you had to have vax pass to go
None of the celebs were asked, for sure.
ugh...that sucks
Garrett has learned how to respirate through his anus.
I know a bunch of people who want to stay masked up. Not necessarily angry masked Karen's, but insecure, neurotic individuals who are convinced that a disease with a 99% survival rate for most will kill them. Also.. many also simply want to do what they're told. Sad.
They need Xanax, not a mask.
no they need a punch in the face- all of them
Makes me wonder what they were hiding behind before 2020.
They are that "special 1%"- gotta look forward to SOMETHING I guess!
I read all the studies in March of 2020 and there was zip, zero, nada to indicate that any mask aside from the kind you see in the BioWeapons labs (the bubble suit) was going to be effective. I refused the cloth the entire time and had only two small dust ups. No one wants to hear that because everyone fell for the peer pressure, even if they thought it was BS. Worse than BS, incredibly harmful to society - particularly to kids.
Right there with you. I wore a pair of red underwear on my head a few times when grocery shopping. Full-grown men would snivel at me sometimes. But little old ladies would walk up and compliment me. Then I saw a guy in Trader Joe's with no mask. He told me he just waves a "letter from his doctor" at the Facehole Enforcers and they acquiesce. So I had "my doctor" write up a letter stating that I had a neurological condition that precluded me wearing a mask. "We" omitted that the condition was a capacity for critical thinking.
I tell people I can't wear a mask due to allergies. If they ask what I'm allergic to, I tell them BS.
I wrote BS in bold black sharpie on a surgical mask. I wear it when I’m not brave enough to go maskless. People look but don’t say anything.
I have made it a rule to never again do business with those who require face masks, or other things (okay, shirts and shoes ok), and have given my business to locals with commonsense. (Most recently, a credit union, and there on the door "We're Masking Up!" like they were having a birthday party. I backed right out of the parking lot. If they'll do it now, they'll do it again and again, whenever the fearful take control.)
Support local small business that survived 2020. It's worth every dollar.
Almost none of the businesses in my town complied w/ the mask mandates, almost from the start. But they all put up the signs & plexiglass & marked the floors. It was all done to keep their doors open. A better gauge might be to ignore the signage @ the door & go inside to see if any employees & customers are maskless. In most places here, some do wear & some don’t. I’ve noticed more people wearing them lately (probably because omi is more contagious, even if masks don’t do s#¡+) but because they choose to, not because businesses are forcing them to
Yes. I have told many friends to just walk into businesses normally, smile and say hi. Let the staff bring it up if they want to. They often do not.
I support this sentiment but in my locked-down blue state (run by a King who is not subject to reelection pressures right now (or even in future), this would mean going nowhere.
Im in a deep blue state too but in the southern end where I live, it is conservative & common sense so @ least I am free where I live & in the surrounding towns.
Visiting my kids in the northern part of the state is a whole other story…
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I'm not even sure the "no shirts, no shoes, no service" makes sense anymore.
I always just said No Thanks and it worked. Everywhere.
A lady where I live went to a Walmart with her mask exemption letter from her doctor. Despite the exemption, a guard pestered her and then hit her and broke her phone because she didn't have a mask on. What a gentleman. The world has gone mad.
Destroying someone's property is illegal. Did she report it to the police, I hope?
Yes, that's how I know about it. She filmed the whole discussion with the police. She was this tiny lady who was no threat at all, and the guard smacked her.
I am looking for a doctor like that. When I asked him why a medical professional believed these stupid masks did anything, he got pretty huffy and tried to ridicule me.
me three
I admire you, but you didn't need the study. We have known about viruses for how long and fabric for how much longer? And suddenly masks are magic against viruses? Better than a vaccine, according to Dr. Redfield? (No, I don't believe the vaccine works, but that statement was ridiculous on its face. No "PPE" is better than your own immune system if it can be made to recognize and fight off anything.) All people had to do was use two brain cells and their eyes and they would have understood how "off" this situation was.
That's been the most frustrating part of it all - so many seemed to turn off their brains. Even those educated to know better. It has forever changed my world.
It has changed my world view.
When the shaming kicked in, that was the sure sign something was off. But yet, everyone went along. Being the only maskless person (maybe there were 1-2 others per store) was like living in the Zombie apocalypse.
Walking through the airport without a mask is such an amazing feeling. Most people look away, ashamed. But I know that I’m helping others build their courage. Smile. Laugh. Remind people what they’re missing.
Bravo.
Stay free.
And soon it will be forgotten that mask mandates were ever a thing. Wiped from the history books. Until the mid-terms and next winter.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/
I used that WHO study many times in trying to show people that masks don't work. The CDC actually published a study in 2020 that came to the same conclusion:
"In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.51–1.20; I2 = 30%, p = 0.25) (Figure 2).
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Disposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids (36). There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza."
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
Of course, that didn't stop them from them publishing another article claiming that masks were likely responsible for the magical disappearance of flu last season:
"The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent implementation of nonpharmaceutical interventions (e.g., cessation of global travel, mask use, physical distancing, and staying home) reduced transmission of some viral respiratory pathogens (1). In the United States, influenza activity decreased in March 2020, was historically low through the summer of 2020 (2), and remained low during October 2020–May 2021 (<0.4% of respiratory specimens with positive test results for each week of the season)."
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7029a1.htm?s_cid=mm7029a1_w
They'll even go all in, and as el gato pointed out yesterday, publish a "study" that claims in its introduction that mask mandates resulted in a "statistically significant" reduction in the rose of COVID-19 cases, but if you read, the reduction was less than 0.75% on the first 20 days after such mandates and never measured even 2%. Of course, a 2% reduction in the rise in cases is not statistically significant and there is no evidence that masks themselves were responsible (correlation does not equal causation).
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
You have to be able to read. Imagine if all your information came from Fakebook, Google, Yahoo, the cable news networks or the alphabet networks? You’d still believe all these remediation methods worked. People are generally lazy when it comes to information. We are the 30% that can think for ourselves.
“and their names will be remembered.”
The name El Gato Malo will be remembered.
I saw a tweet saying that masks were like MAGA hats for Democrats. Seems about right.
And, a MAGA hat actually works: At keeping the sun out of your eyes. And your hair out of your face. And sweat out of your eyes. And holds your sunglasses when you don't need them. And sun off your scalp when golfing. And won't make YOU sick from wearing it.
ALL unlike masks, which not only do nothing good, but may very well do things bad to you.
But even the MAGAest of all the MAGAs wouldn't force the hats on others.
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Society has been conditioned to except an evidence free policy that has demonstrably failed over and over again. And to think that my lesson on Covid mask propaganda through the lens of Orwell's Animal Farm might cost me my job....
Don't think critically kids - the government has experts! Do what they say!
https://allamericanwarriormonk.substack.com/p/teaching-my-students-about-covid
Just wanted to say a big thanks to you for your writing! It has helped me get way clearer on what has been going on here and what's actually at stake. Thanks!
Nothing in this Fake pandemic was about Public health, its all about NWO Population Control
A Pandemic of Deceit
Where Is The Pandemic? According To The BC Government Records Hospitalizations and ICU admissions in BC During the Covid-19 Pandemic Did Not Increase Compared to the Previous Years
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/where-is-the-pandemic-according-to
Health Canada Initially Created For Population Control Measures
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/health-canada-initially-created-for
only mask I'll wear is a Guy Fawkes one on judgement day
Think positive. :-)
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." ― Albert Camus
I walk unmasked in BC with its never-ending mask mandate.
I feel so strong. So free.
I've never before thought myself as "brave". I do now.
Some people have to stay home to make Karen feel safe. Other people have to go to work so Karen feels comfortable. And if you disagree, you're the one being selfish.
Karen used to be one of my Top Ten female names. After this sht, I need to replace it.
I was in Nashville recently (Jan 2022) in bars listening to music, walking on the streets and downtown. Virtually no one was masked, the bars were packed. It was unbelievable, normal and wonderful. I asked the hotel staff; those honkey tonk bars never closed once. Amazing! Did you ever hear of extra cases, deaths in Nashville? I never did.
True. However, when you go to places like Costco in the Nashville suburbs fifty percent of customers are in masks.
Teenage girl wearing mask standing by a water fountain yesterday at church where only about 10% masked; when I greeted her, turned her back to me before she responded. Permanent psychosis.
Yikes. Broken.
She'll be someone's wife someday, bless her heart!
I remember early on, spring or summer 2020 the NEJM had an article that masks didn’t do any real good & mainly served as a “talisman” for those wearing them. Which was the way I saw them too - a phony talisman to ward off the evil bug, as well as a state symbol of control & compliance. Of course there was backlash to the idea that masks didn’t do anything so the NEJM re-issued the literature w/ a disclaimer. Id be surprised if it hasn’t been “disappeared”, but if it was, it may well reappear now that the political “science” has changed.
Having said all of this, I live in a blue state (NM) that may be the last one standing to STILL require the damn things everywhere & virtually everyone in the northern part of the state is totally compliant, w/ the more conservative southern part where I live having been non compliant (including businesses) almost from the start.
Yep, I've been referencing that article for nearly two years now.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
That’s it! Thanks!
I’ll bet climate science is worse than COVID science.
Bingo. It’s about getting grants for fake studies, giving purpose for more grants. It gives meaning to people who buy into the climate agenda. Nancy Pelosi costs were 1/2 million on private jets last yr. but she cares about climate. Well, why wasn’t she flying commercial with all the other slobs?
Who remembers the dumb masking meme that went around? The "common sense science" one that compared outcomes of someone peeing when two people were not wearing pants, one person was or both of them were? The argument was you're much more likely to get pee on you if neither of you wears pants and pee is equivalent to a respiratory virus. Yay science!
Gorski--makes me want to puke. That shitstain should be on trial. I'll just repeat what Geert Vanden Bossche said about him, that he's "an illiterate little weasel."
And right now on Twitter there's lots of performative SMDHs over kids in LA needing to mask right after the shall we say hedonistic abandon at the SB. To which I've been replying: what will you do with your considerable follower voice other than remarking upon it?
I mean--I got a grand total of 3 followers. And the voices who've had integrity and courage from the beginning--like our Fabulous Felid--were banned. If you have any social media at this point, just please post "what are you doing for the kids?"
This exactly. Nobody is coming to save you.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/covid-prisoners-we-need-to-talk
Because the truth of the matter is this — no one else is coming to save you. People in free (mostly red) states are already over covid and have been for a while now. Their kids are going to school without masks, the bars are open, and the football stadiums are packed. Those places are doing just as well as places that are ‘locked up’ tight. And here’s a tip: people in those places aren’t going to protest for your freedom, especially after the ‘experts’ (and Twitter) have been calling them names for at least the last couple years.
Your leaders are all-in with the mania. They are bought and paid for. There will be no help there. No, this is up to you and it’s long past time to stand up and do something about it.
Geez no kidding. Look at how they're demonizing the truckers who ARE coming to save us.
PS: I just subscribed (free, sorry!) to your Substack. I know moral support comes cheap these days but...
“it was painfully obvious right from the beginning that the whole notion was invented as a low energy path for performative “doing something.
“it accentuated a sense of crisis, alienated individuals, and carved out bright lines of social conflict. and it did nothing at all of epidemiological value. this was known and knowable.”
Thanks, gato, that articulates perfectly why I refuse to wear a mask at Mass. The parish church is holy ground, sacred space specifically anointed and consecrated to the worship of God. It is His house. Wearing a mask is bringing the profane into sacred space. The mask was selected as the manipulative globalist lie, and there is great glee in the Screwtapian underworld as they observe the fear and compliance. I refuse to bring the lie into sacred space.
Of course, the noose is ever tightening, and finding churches in Catholic Canuckistan where one may be maskless is dwindling. The righteous karens have taken care of that. Not to mention spineless bishops. But, then again, our faith transcends karens and spineless prelates, all glory be to God.
Up here in Alberta the schools have a zero mask mandate as of this morning - will be interesting to poll my kids to see how many still wear them. My oldest is in Grade 12 and is probably the only kid in his class not jabbed. King Kenny and Queen Henshaw have deemed the adults can throw away the masks on 1st March only if we clean our rooms and eat our greens, or science or something.
Why are they waiting until March 1? Reminds me if that video going around where the NV school kids get all excited because they can go maskless “this coming Monday”. Why not now?!
I'm gonna retire and thought about substitute teaching, to have something to do every so often.
I asked, vaccine, fask mask?
Kill Shot, no. Face mask, yes.
I said, thanks but no thanks.
She sounded heartbroken... they are extremely desperate for subs
well then no mo masks if they're desperate
I have to start applying for jobs again. I'm so looking forward to the vax/masks questions.
Natural selection is merciless. To all those wearing masks: F Them, with interest. If the masks are damaging health, great. A cull of the stupid is always good for the species.
Here in WA state the “true believers” all now wear Kn95 or n95 masks. Outside. Alone
Because the "science" took two YEARS to determine cloth bad, n95 good. Morons.
Anyone who asks me to put a mask on will be asked “whats you email address?”
I will send them this and politely tell them to fuck off.
It was a panicked attempt to scrape together some symbolic vestige of collectivism. It was ideological panic stacked up on mounting ideological derangement that existed before covid.
Maybe ask them, “why aren’t the unmasked getting sick and dying?”
They'll claim instead that the unmasked are causing other people to get sick and die. That one was pulled on me at my favorite local grocery store when I refused to wear a mask. And they wouldn't check out my groceries unless I put on a mask. So the store is no longer my favorite -- or even my store. I told them flat out that I wouldn't return until they changed their policy.
Sigh. So it is really working—a ploy to divide us still further.
Some say it’s about compliance and submission. I’m thinking it’s about weakening us through division.
It's a "both of the above." I've said from the beginning that the masking and "social distancing" (which is really antisocial) were meant to isolate us from each other and train us to fear and distrust each other.
Fear and distrust => hatred and violence. It’s coming. They’re desirous of it.
Here is the most recent fear mongering mask "study" that is being put out by the CDC- can you take a look at this at break it down:
Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant within Tightly Monitored Isolation Facility, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/3/21-2318_article?ACSTrackingID=USCDC_333-DM72795&ACSTrackingLabel=Latest%20Expedited%20Articles%20-%20Emerging%20Infectious%20Diseases%20Journal%20-%20December%2029%2C%202021&deliveryName=USCDC_333-DM72795
These maskholes are lunatics and have found something that gives their lives meaning. They don't want to let go of this as they would have to return to their impotent existence.
This post drove me to look at Gorski’s Twitter. What a vile, ugly human being. Still pushing the jab as safe and effective.
I think he's in for an unhappy retirement.
https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1493402252505198592
@gorskon will be pushing masks to save us from Climate change #asshat
Newbie here … is there a link to the “ WHO’s 2019 study of masks vs respiratory virus”. The table apparently from that study is awesome. Although I have both Googled/Binged for the WHO study, more recent COVID19 studies have swamped my search results.
You can start here:
https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-150-comparative-studies-and-articles-on-mask-ineffectiveness-and-harms/
There are more articles on masks at the Brownstone.
You mean this? https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffaff1c2d-414b-49d0-b370-e9de7f9d752e_680x525.png
Man, if the masks did anything we’d freakin’ know by now—whether we followed crack data analyst kitties possessing extraordinary writing and logic skills or not. The unmasked would be disappearing from society as they died off in their hundreds of thousands and millions and the masked would be relatively unscathed—I mean, given a virus that is capable of doing such damage, like in 1918.
So, the flip side, the fact that no such thing is happening, makes it blatant that the masks are a waste of resources at best.
And yet… what is blatant means nothing to the adherents of the cult.
I’m stumped.
And now the mayors of some Ohio cities still have mask mandates. I don't wear one anywhere except at the salon where my stylist will be evicted if her clients don't wear masks. And I don't really "wear" it even there. I've been with her for almost 30 years and I don't want to ditch her or get her evicted -- so I hold the mask in my hand about an inch from my face.
To be fair, I think it was decent of David Gorski to take the glass of whisky and the revolver and retire to the back room to do the decent thing. If only more of those who were smug, self-righteous and wrong would follow his lead. If only.
I believe you may have been misinformed about that.
https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1493402252505198592
And not for nothing... how is this going to work for kids who have been permamasked because their frightened adults have told them if they go bare-faced they will sure die? Mental breakdown before kindergarten is probably not the making of a mentally stable adult.
Our school mask mandate was just lifted last Thursday. My kids (elementary and middle) said still, only 30% of students have given up their masks. 70% of their classmates continue because their parents tell them to wear it. I would think if a kid saw other classmates unmasked, they would immediately shed their mask no matter what their parent said. They have become attached to them, I saw that for a minute with my son. 100% of teachers are still masked.
There's a CDC meta-study from April 2020 on this, as well. If memory serves, it reviewed 17 studies on masks' ability to reduce influenza spread and came to the conclusion they were ineffective. It was immediately buried because that is precisely when Fauci began transitioning to 'we need masks; I lied to help the medical profession.'
But, we're still not out of the woods. Just yesterday, you had knuckleheads like Biden and Walensky say that mask theater must go on.
The politics is starting to diverge from Big Pharma's bottom line. It will be interesting if BP and the media they bought will allow the panic to die, or if they'll throw Biden under the bus and treat him like Trump.
I live in NSW Australia. 90% of people are wearing masks. The mandate is for indoors only but the majority still keep them on for outside too. I refuse to wear one and unfortunately I’m such a rarity. I’m lucky and haven’t had any Karens yell at me but also I’m also so surprised how little I get asked. So far I’ve only been kicked out of one store which ironically was a whole foods bulk food store called “Pure”.
In our state High school kids have to wear it in school but thankfully primary schools is only recommended. None of the kids in my son’s school bother. He did come home yesterday though saying he was forced to wear one in class by the teacher and I went tiger mum on the school. Called up the teacher and said he is to NEVER be forced or made to wear a mask. No way I want to start that precedent.
Two sad but hilarious aspects of the theater are that N95s are not earloop masks, so those are all counterfeits. Second, there is no N95 mask approved for use by children, period.
Now if anyone says anything to me about "where's your MASK!" I just point to my hat and say "I've got this. It does exactly the same thing."
Masks served a purpose, albeit a very sinister one.
https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/why-vaccine-social-passports
And the ones who have "dutifully" worn their giant devil's diaper get sick and ask, "why"? And yet they still dutifully wear their diaper (after all, "they" said we have to...). It's mind boggling. And then there are us "amateurs" who have actually worn masks for decades (on the job) and know what they can and can't do... we are ignored or called deniers.
Using your favorite non google search engine, enter the subject "git-mo detainees face masks". The mask mandate has never been about stopping the spread of disease, ever. And how many people have we all seen riding alone in their cars, windows up and masks on. Totally subjugated!
Even just the physics of masks for slowing the spread of viruses predicts they'll be next to worthless. The filter layer of a surgical mask is the tightest layer of material, but that layer still has pores at least 5 microns wide.
When suspended flu particles were sized up, the median size was just 1 micron. Half of flu particles are submicron. Flu and SARS-CoV-2 are similar-sized virions, so it can be expected that half of all suspended SARS-CoV-2 is ALSO submicron.
Upshot: The smallest pores in a surgical mask are still 5 times larger than they need to be to let at least half of all suspended SARS-CoV-2 particles get through them.
The gaps between the mask and your face may be dozens of microns in size. If there are a few 20-40 micron gaps after you put your mask on, then how hard will it be for a 1-micron COVID particle to get through?
If a basketball hoop was 20-40 times the diameter of the basketball, then anyone could make the shot -- from anywhere on the court.
The problem with that analysis is that it's based on the size of the virus particle, when the virus particle does not travel solo. It's attached to something - a droplet or whatever - and it's the size of the droplet or whatever that needs to be addressed in the context of the layers of a mask. AFAIK, that is.
That's what they said because that was the only way masks can work even in theory. If the virus is airborne, it's already entering your body through your uncovered eyes. This is why they had to quickly walk back the 'airborne virus' talk fairly early in the pandemic. If the virus is airborne masks CAN'T work.
(Even their theory was wildly incorrect, though. Let's imagine that my mask DOES stop that water droplet with the virus inside. Now the droplet evaporates. What happens next time I breathe out?)
Actually, virion size of SARS-CoV-2 is less than that of the measles virus (less than 0.22 microns). I actually was talking about the particle size which the virions would be suspended within.
And the truly neurotic are still driving around in the cars with masks on, alone, with the windows up.
“but even this wholesale fabrication “for your protection” was insufficient. there was a need to impose a moral dimension and thus was born the entirely invented tagline of ‘your mask protects me.’ “
This is the type of thinking that results when individuals refuse the responsibility of thinking for themselves, and hire out moral decision-making to the crowd.
Utilitarianism is an abomination.
The downfall of our civilization will not come from without, but will be a result of our own flawed thinking.