Posted on 05/27/2020 2:26:38 PM PDT by SkyPilot
On May 26, Virginias Gov. Ralph Northam announced that wearing masks outside ones 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 libertynow and in the future.
Demanding Freedoms Helps Ensure Them
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 states blessing.
The governors resulting about-face was probably not due to a legal epiphany. Rather, he understood hed pushed the envelope too far. Minnesotans wouldnt 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.
Masking Is Meant to Build an Opinion Cascade
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....
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We now live in a fascist state.
I will not comply. We have HCQ, Azithromycin and Zinc. The NIH pushed a study 15 years ago the HCQ was an effective prophylactic for corona virus. This is now just so much (B)arbra (S)treisand.
“Whether or not things will ever be the same is not at all clear”
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I suspect that’s dependent on the belief covid19 will never go away or be controlled via a vaccine.
So masks were important when we had Wide spread of the disease across these leftist states with thousands of new cases daily, but now once its starting to die out in the case numbers are drastically lower suddenly masks become a life-saving device everyone must wear. If they had insisted On masks back in March, I would have said that might be a good idea but to wait in this case until nearly the end of May it shows it is just about control not the disease.
Face Masks
Thumbnail of Meta-analysis of risk ratios for the effect of face mask use with or without enhanced hand hygiene on laboratory-confirmed influenza from 10 randomized controlled trials with >6,500 participants. A) Face mask use alone; B) face mask and hand hygiene; C) face mask with or without hand hygiene. Pooled estimates were not made if there was high heterogeneity (I2 >75%). Squares indicate risk ratio for each of the included studies, horizontal lines indicate 95% CIs, dashed vertical Figure 2. Meta-analysis of risk ratios for the effect of face mask use with or without enhanced hand hygiene on laboratory-confirmed influenza from 10 randomized controlled trials with >6,500 participants. A) Face mask... 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 1946July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.511.20; I2 = 30%, p = 0.25) (Figure 2).
I’ll be wearing a mask in crowded public places — but I won’t be the only one.
As I just posted on another thread (but, I’ll post here too, because you may not have read that other thread) — I joined Freerepublic during and because of the Terry Schiavo case. I was impressed with how much Freepers then cared about the right-to-life of an individual person on life-support. IMHO, those Freepers were right, and the anti-maskers here are dead wrong.
Even if you don’t think masks help; why give the leftists such an easy P.R. victory? No doubt the pro-Biden trolls here are cheerleading the anti-maskers.
I saw that. Another example is these restaurants starting to reopen in these masks required states, they were pretty much Ill say were now we opening however here is a page rules you must follow before we even consider letting you eat at a restaurant. Most of them go along the lines of pull into the designated parking spot, call us while staying in your car and waiting till we come out to you, they will escort you, once we verify youre wearing a mask to your table, then will tell you can take your mask off once your food arrives, etc.
The only people who willingly go through that are the angry leftists who enjoy punishment in force compliance, most normal people what end up saying screw it. Personally, while I would love to go back out to a restaurant again I want to go out and enjoy myself and not jump through a bunch of hoops just to make someone feel good. Once things get back to normal, and not the new normal, if these places are still around then I will go back out to them until then let them suffer.
Do you also drive a hybrid or electric car because the lefty says it helps the environment?
The slave mask is a visual, tangible symbol stating that all of the Democrat's unconstitutional "lock downs" and "emergency orders" have a legal basis and validity.
If the masks go away, the psyche of the American public turns to recovery, freedom, and rights.
And that just won't do.
The fascists have to keep up the charade until the election (at least). "Mail in voting" is a scam, and that is why Twitter "fact checked" the President of the United States. Trump exposed the scam and the plot, and that won't do either.
I read a tweet from someone who said her doctor told her it was like your husband putting on a condom when youre three months pregnant...
Ill be wearing a mask in crowded public places but I wont be the only one.
As I just posted on another thread (but, Ill post here too, because you may not have read that other thread) I joined Freerepublic during and because of the Terry Schiavo case. I was impressed with how much Freepers then cared about the right-to-life of an individual person on life-support. IMHO, those Freepers were right, and the anti-maskers here are dead wrong.
Even if you dont think masks help; why give the leftists such an easy P.R. victory? No doubt the pro-Biden trolls here are cheerleading the anti-maskers.
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Glad somebody said it... The sheltering lockdowns did work, the masks do help, and social distancing does help. This ultimately won’t be anymore dangerous than the flu, but til our bodies have antibodies many are at risk.
The problem is the degree to which the left pushes things, like lockdowns forever, wear a mask in the shower, etc. This is their Cloward and Piven moment, and they know it.
You’re not a very good troll. You’re too obvious. Why don’t you just do everything the left wants - that’ll show ‘em. You are an NPC for sure.
Mandatory masks can also be about follow the money elected Democrats and RINOs having stock investments in mask manufacturers.
Send “Orange Man Bad” federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a “third term” in office imo.
Disney said it would "partially re-open" and masks will be "mandatory."
In my opinion, any parent who would drag their child around Disney World in the Florida heat and allow them to be muzzled by a mask should have their head examined.
We have left the world of "being safe" and have entered the nightmare of hysteria and cruelty.
There was an article stating that these American fascists have destroyed everything that was beautiful: worship, classical music concerts, enjoying a meal out with family and friends, fellowship, human interaction and affection, and on and on.
I don't know if we emerge victorious from this dystopia, but I am waiting for the President's next move. Hoping for his next more. If he has one.
Exactly true, which is why they will continue it as long as they can get away with it.
Stand up to tyrants.
Even a home-made cloth mask greatly reduces the viral load in crowded indoor places -- such as stores or offices. Civic-minded people, who want the economy to restart without unnecessary deaths or suffering, voluntairly wear masks to protect others.
Why are you so insistent on handing the Dems an easy P.R. victory?
In other words, using a face mask restricts proper and healthy breathing.
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