I stopped paying attention to mainstream Covid news headlines, simply for the sake of my own psychic health. But I am seeing more and more fools wearing them. I despise these people. I truly do.
So I’ve stopped at a rest area to use the head. There is not much traveling as this is around the peak of the Covid hysteria. Two urinals, one of them occupied by some masked, wimpy looking guy. My mask? Back in the car. We are almost shoulder to shoulder. He looks at me and taps his mask. I ignore his entreaty. He repeats the tapping with more insistence. I finish my business, turn to him and say “I am glad you agree with me that masks don’t work.” He manages to mumble some surprised reply that amounts to “WHAT?” “Yes”, I say, “If you believed that masks did work, then you’d have the confidence to know that when two of us are together and only one of us is masked that we are both safe!” With that I left and for all I know he might be still trying to figure this out.
The concept that I am literally "responsible" for someone else's anything (especially their health and safety) is ridiculous... If you want me to wear a mask in the grocery store to "protect you" while you shop then we are going to have to have a discussion about that soda and those hoho's and king don's in your cart...
Your health and safety has always been about YOUR personal responsibility... Phuck you and your mask... the option to stay bunkered down in the safety and seclusion of your home was NEVER taken away from you... For the rest of us, not so much... I WILL NOT COMPLY... ever...
"these people are literally admitting that they have no self control or self possession and that they require the rest of the world to “ally” with them to make it all OK. it’s an admission that they are neither autonomous nor adult. it is always you and not they who must change, you and not they who must accommodate.
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Ultimately, you can bitch and moan about how life is unfair all you want, but in the end you're left with the same choice -- suck it up and do it, or never get anywhere. And sooner or later, people will be tired of holding you up........especially if you're always talking about how morally superior you are and how you would be successful if only XYZ.
I have noticed my mental health improving, in inverse proportion to the number of masked faces surrounding me. This has been a weird, unsettling and informative exercise for me. Where I live, mask wearing does not appear to be on the increase -- rather, it never entirely went away. There has been about 5% of people still wearing them for the past several months.
It is "the emperor has no clothes." And the ones in the minority (compliant) are the deviants. I'm not playing that game. It's important to take a stand.
What I cannot fathom is how these mid-wits came to such prominence & power. Most of this stuff would’ve been laughed & eye-rolled into shame & embarrassment not so long ago. Irrefutable evidence of a very sick society. I hope we can recover but I have my doubts....
March 4th 2020: The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) bans advertisements by two companies for claiming face masks could protect against Covid. The ASA says the adverts were “misleading” because the claims went against official advice.
A spokesman said Public Health England informed the ASA “that it does not recommend the use of face masks as a means of protection from coronavirus”. “We understood there was very little evidence of widespread benefit from their use outside of clinical settings,” the ASA said in a statement, adding that “prolonged use of masks was likely to reduce compliance with good universal hygiene behaviours” like frequent hand-washing.
Professor Stephen Powis, NHS Medical Director, comments: “Callous firms looking to maximise profits by pushing products that fly in the face of official advice is outright dangerous and has rightly been banned.”
Then:
May 5th 2020: U.K. Chief Scientific Officer Patrick Vallance now tells MPs masks could have “marginal but positive impact”.
May 11th 2020: Government plan “advises” public to “wear face coverings in crowded places and wash their clothes regularly”.
May 27th 2020: In the U.S., Dr. Fauci tells CNN: “I wear it for the reason that I believe it is effective. It is not 100% effective. It’s sort of respect for another person and have that other person respect you.”
May 27th 2020: Stephanie Warriner is choked to death by hospital guards in Toronto, Canada, for wearing a Covid mask “too low”.
June 4th 2020: Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announces that “face coverings” – “not surgical masks – the kind of face covering you can easily make at home” – will be compulsory on public transport from June 15th, on pain of fines up to £100. “We’re doing what many other countries have asked transport users to do.” A Freedom of Information later reveals this decision was made based on no peer-reviewed scientific evidence.
June 5th 2020: Government announces that effective June 15th, staff will be required to wear surgical masks – and visitors and outpatients “face coverings” – in all NHS hospitals.”
Hard to imagine why trust in Government has sunk so low.
I just upgraded to a paid membership. Your writings are the most insightful, provocative, interesting and well-written of any source I’ve been able to find anywhere over the past several years. I’ve shared many of your columns with friends and family, but just had to join the cat army to support what you’re doing here. Thank you!
If masks or jabs were effective, if A is wearing a mask, has been ritually, habitually jabbed, B doesn’t need either. A is protected from infection by B, B is protected from infection by A. What is difficult to understand about that? Evidently the masker-jabbers are such intellectually weak nitwits it is beyond them.
I’ve always been first on the dance floor. I am no different in this.
My friends weren’t allowed to speak to me (by their pussified husbands) back in early 2020 because I made jokes about the ridiculousness of Covid and masks. Now they all see the absurdity of it. I allow them to forget about how they treated me, but I will never. Honestly, it helps me in my resolve for speaking up about other things. The world has gone mad and I won’t be quiet.
Societal Neurosis gone psychosis. The media and government are deliberately trying to drive everyone mad. Doug Casey may be absolutely correct. It’s time to leave here but not sure where to go.
We are at a point where we are expected to accommodate and affirm those who “no self control or self possession and ... require the rest of the world to ‘ally’ with them to make it all OK.” As the recently leaked manifesto of the young woman who shot up a Christian school in Nashville makes clear, the hectoring sometimes will turn violent. Most people do not want to offend anyone, particularly in ordinary daily interactions, but the only way to put and to these assaults on the right, ultimately, to say what you believe is true, is to politely not go along, whether it’s masks, pronouns or anything else.
I stopped paying attention to mainstream Covid news headlines, simply for the sake of my own psychic health. But I am seeing more and more fools wearing them. I despise these people. I truly do.
So I’ve stopped at a rest area to use the head. There is not much traveling as this is around the peak of the Covid hysteria. Two urinals, one of them occupied by some masked, wimpy looking guy. My mask? Back in the car. We are almost shoulder to shoulder. He looks at me and taps his mask. I ignore his entreaty. He repeats the tapping with more insistence. I finish my business, turn to him and say “I am glad you agree with me that masks don’t work.” He manages to mumble some surprised reply that amounts to “WHAT?” “Yes”, I say, “If you believed that masks did work, then you’d have the confidence to know that when two of us are together and only one of us is masked that we are both safe!” With that I left and for all I know he might be still trying to figure this out.
The concept that I am literally "responsible" for someone else's anything (especially their health and safety) is ridiculous... If you want me to wear a mask in the grocery store to "protect you" while you shop then we are going to have to have a discussion about that soda and those hoho's and king don's in your cart...
Your health and safety has always been about YOUR personal responsibility... Phuck you and your mask... the option to stay bunkered down in the safety and seclusion of your home was NEVER taken away from you... For the rest of us, not so much... I WILL NOT COMPLY... ever...
"these people are literally admitting that they have no self control or self possession and that they require the rest of the world to “ally” with them to make it all OK. it’s an admission that they are neither autonomous nor adult. it is always you and not they who must change, you and not they who must accommodate.
-----------
Ultimately, you can bitch and moan about how life is unfair all you want, but in the end you're left with the same choice -- suck it up and do it, or never get anywhere. And sooner or later, people will be tired of holding you up........especially if you're always talking about how morally superior you are and how you would be successful if only XYZ.
I have noticed my mental health improving, in inverse proportion to the number of masked faces surrounding me. This has been a weird, unsettling and informative exercise for me. Where I live, mask wearing does not appear to be on the increase -- rather, it never entirely went away. There has been about 5% of people still wearing them for the past several months.
It is "the emperor has no clothes." And the ones in the minority (compliant) are the deviants. I'm not playing that game. It's important to take a stand.
What I cannot fathom is how these mid-wits came to such prominence & power. Most of this stuff would’ve been laughed & eye-rolled into shame & embarrassment not so long ago. Irrefutable evidence of a very sick society. I hope we can recover but I have my doubts....
Here’s an interesting item via Daily Sceptic:
March 4th 2020: The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) bans advertisements by two companies for claiming face masks could protect against Covid. The ASA says the adverts were “misleading” because the claims went against official advice.
A spokesman said Public Health England informed the ASA “that it does not recommend the use of face masks as a means of protection from coronavirus”. “We understood there was very little evidence of widespread benefit from their use outside of clinical settings,” the ASA said in a statement, adding that “prolonged use of masks was likely to reduce compliance with good universal hygiene behaviours” like frequent hand-washing.
Professor Stephen Powis, NHS Medical Director, comments: “Callous firms looking to maximise profits by pushing products that fly in the face of official advice is outright dangerous and has rightly been banned.”
Then:
May 5th 2020: U.K. Chief Scientific Officer Patrick Vallance now tells MPs masks could have “marginal but positive impact”.
May 11th 2020: Government plan “advises” public to “wear face coverings in crowded places and wash their clothes regularly”.
May 27th 2020: In the U.S., Dr. Fauci tells CNN: “I wear it for the reason that I believe it is effective. It is not 100% effective. It’s sort of respect for another person and have that other person respect you.”
May 27th 2020: Stephanie Warriner is choked to death by hospital guards in Toronto, Canada, for wearing a Covid mask “too low”.
June 4th 2020: Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announces that “face coverings” – “not surgical masks – the kind of face covering you can easily make at home” – will be compulsory on public transport from June 15th, on pain of fines up to £100. “We’re doing what many other countries have asked transport users to do.” A Freedom of Information later reveals this decision was made based on no peer-reviewed scientific evidence.
June 5th 2020: Government announces that effective June 15th, staff will be required to wear surgical masks – and visitors and outpatients “face coverings” – in all NHS hospitals.”
Hard to imagine why trust in Government has sunk so low.
This old bitch won't be masking up for anyone. I like “your pathology is your problem, stop making it mine.” I'm going to use that : )
I just upgraded to a paid membership. Your writings are the most insightful, provocative, interesting and well-written of any source I’ve been able to find anywhere over the past several years. I’ve shared many of your columns with friends and family, but just had to join the cat army to support what you’re doing here. Thank you!
If masks or jabs were effective, if A is wearing a mask, has been ritually, habitually jabbed, B doesn’t need either. A is protected from infection by B, B is protected from infection by A. What is difficult to understand about that? Evidently the masker-jabbers are such intellectually weak nitwits it is beyond them.
I’ve always been first on the dance floor. I am no different in this.
My friends weren’t allowed to speak to me (by their pussified husbands) back in early 2020 because I made jokes about the ridiculousness of Covid and masks. Now they all see the absurdity of it. I allow them to forget about how they treated me, but I will never. Honestly, it helps me in my resolve for speaking up about other things. The world has gone mad and I won’t be quiet.
“Your mask protects me” unites the covert narcissist personality disorder types coming out of the woodwork
Societal Neurosis gone psychosis. The media and government are deliberately trying to drive everyone mad. Doug Casey may be absolutely correct. It’s time to leave here but not sure where to go.
We are at a point where we are expected to accommodate and affirm those who “no self control or self possession and ... require the rest of the world to ‘ally’ with them to make it all OK.” As the recently leaked manifesto of the young woman who shot up a Christian school in Nashville makes clear, the hectoring sometimes will turn violent. Most people do not want to offend anyone, particularly in ordinary daily interactions, but the only way to put and to these assaults on the right, ultimately, to say what you believe is true, is to politely not go along, whether it’s masks, pronouns or anything else.
"In nature, poisonous creatures will often develop bright colors to warn others of their toxicity".
Perfect.
"Your mask protects me" was the precursor to "No one is safe until everyone is safe."