Mandatory Masks Aren’t About Safety, They’re About Social Control

On May 26, Virginia’s Gov. Ralph Northam announced that wearing masks outside one’s home will be mandatory effective May 29. He first hinted he might issue a masking order a week ago, likely to test the water.

A new refrain in public discourse is growing in volume by the day: “Things will never be the same.” The certainty with which we are assured of this pre-determined future is perplexing. Whether or not “things” will ever be the same is not at all clear, but that some people hope things will never be the same is certain.

To those looking to benefit politically from emergencies, COVID presents an opportunity to advance plans targeted to transform American freedom and the American way of life. Mandatory-masking policies provide a valuable foundation to weaponize the virus against American liberty—now and in the future.

Much of our freedom is maintained by the collective resistance of the American mood. When the Minnesota governor excluded churches from his Phase I reopening plan, Catholic and Lutheran leadership announced, through counsel, that their churches would reopen with or without the state’s blessing.

The governor’s resulting about-face was probably not due to a legal epiphany. Rather, he understood he’d pushed the envelope too far. Minnesotans wouldn’t put up with any further abuse of their religious freedoms.

Would Virginians, outside of the blue D.C. suburbs, be willing to accept a masking order? To take our freedom from us, people with anti-American agendas have to mobilize some initial quorum of consent from the population.

Mandatory masking seeks to build that consent. In addition to extending the fiction that we are in an emergency sufficient to trigger the extra-constitutional authority of local and state executives, mandatory masking acts as a....

Thanks for the ping in #120 to that video of Molly McCann on Laura Ingram, who wrote the piece linked in this thread for The Federalist.

She's right, or course. But I don't know how exactly we fight the Mask Cult now.

We can choose to not wear them and then be quickly expelled from grocery stores, hardware stores, and pharmacies.

At best, we will be the very small minority doing so, and in the end, all we do is deprive ourselves of our local and vital supplies.

I think what needs to happen is action from the President. He declared the National Emergency, and he controls the Executive Branch. The states are going to do what the states do, but the President must lead the war against the Mask Cult.

- Have the CDC issue a directive that the masks are bogus, cause their own health related problems, and are largely ineffective against COVID

- Have the Surgeon General and other Federal officials declare the need for the mask as bogus (tell the truth)

- Order all Federal agencies to cease and desist with the mandatory masks, immediately. Individuals that feel impelled to wear one can do so, but it is not mandatory

If the President did this, it would be huge signal to the rest of the nation that the masks are nothing but a tool of fear and oppression

Once the Cult of the Mask is broken, freedom will break like a tsunami wave. That is why the fascists and globalists are fighting so hard for the slave masks.

We need your leadership Mr. President! It's the only way out of this.

Once the Cult of the Mask is broken, freedom will break like a tsunami wave. That is why the fascists and globalists are fighting so hard for the slave masks.

We need your leadership Mr. President! It's the only way out of this.

Let freedom ring! Remove masks everywhere!

Who said you can't fix stoopid - Hint, It wasn't Darwin.

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