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Mandatory Masks Aren’t About Safety, They’re About Social Control
The Federalist ^ | 27 May 20 | Molly McCann

Posted on 05/27/2020 2:26:38 PM PDT by SkyPilot

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.

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 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.

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; coronavirus; covid; covid19; freedom; masks; psychology; publichealth; ralphnortham; socialcontrol; tryanny; wuhanflu
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Excellent article - needs to be read in full to be appreciated.
1 posted on 05/27/2020 2:26:38 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

If there’s no one around, you don’t need a mask.


2 posted on 05/27/2020 2:30:31 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SkyPilot
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.

Baby Killer Northam: My rules do not apply to me.


3 posted on 05/27/2020 2:31:13 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The CHICOM/PRCNN, controllers of America's Fake news media, CDCNN, WHO, are the Deep Staters!)!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

You don’t need a mask. Fixed it.


4 posted on 05/27/2020 2:31:22 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: SkyPilot

Masks are a form of Fascistic control. It must be resisted.


5 posted on 05/27/2020 2:32:58 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: SkyPilot

"The primary way of person-to-person corona virus transmission is via aerosols or small droplets created by breathing, sneezing or coughing. The reach of exhaled air can be effectively reduced using a face mask as shown in our video. A simple Schlieren imaging technique is applied to visualize the air flow caused by a person breathing and coughing. Using a face mask the exhaled air flow is blocked reducing effectively the risk of infection. Also nicely shown is the heat transfer from the body to the cooler ambient air. More information about the Schlieren imaging technique is given here. "

https://www.lavision.de/en/news/2020/4302/

6 posted on 05/27/2020 2:34:44 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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It's NOT a "Mask"....

It's a MUZZLE!!!

7 posted on 05/27/2020 2:36:08 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: SkyPilot; All
It's NOT a "Mask"....

It's a MUZZLE!!!

8 posted on 05/27/2020 2:36:20 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: SkyPilot

CNN was on at work, and I happened to see the screen a little bit ago. Across the bottom it read, “FAUCI: WEARING MASK A SYMBOL OF WHAT ‘YOU SHOULD BE DOING.’”

I don’t know why I was a little surprised to see that written there. A symbol is exactly all it is. It’s not doing anything to mitigate spread of the virus.


9 posted on 05/27/2020 2:39:35 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Magnum44
I don't wear one except when I want to get into a damn store. Do I agree with the policy?? I haven't seen anything that says it works.

The original concept was so that you didn't cough or sneeze on someone. And in the same breath they say to cough or sneeze into your arm. Of course then we watched the elbow greeting...

Do they know what they're doing at all?? As far as I can see, they're using the 1918 epidemic as a model...except the targets were totally different...young adults up to seniors.

And the resurgence was caused by more boys returning home from the war.

10 posted on 05/27/2020 2:39:41 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau
If there’s no one around, you don’t need a mask.

If there’s no one around, you don’t need a mask.

Fixed it.

11 posted on 05/27/2020 2:41:43 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: SkyPilot
They're merely testing the Overton Window. So far, they must be very happy with what they've been able to get away with.
12 posted on 05/27/2020 2:42:03 PM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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To: SkyPilot

If it seems like it’s too bad to be true, it probably isn’t.


13 posted on 05/27/2020 2:43:28 PM PDT by equaviator (If it seems like it's too bad to be true, then it probably isn't.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I’m not allowed to grow my moustache past the corners of my mouth. Also required to wear a mask at work. ‘Stash is starting to look pretty good. :-) It’s an ill wind indeed that blows no good!


14 posted on 05/27/2020 2:44:48 PM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

So, when should we expect mandatory testing for COVID-19 and the wearing of masks in public?


15 posted on 05/27/2020 2:45:54 PM PDT by equaviator (If it seems like it's too bad to be true, then it probably isn't.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

I guess you’ll be wearing a mask from now on. That’s ok - it makes it easier for the rest of us to identify you.

Also, I see you’ve put this same graphic on multiple threads. You’re just a spammer.


16 posted on 05/27/2020 2:45:59 PM PDT by Venkman
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Breathing? You but that? Stay 6 feet apart and screw the mask. It’s un-American.


17 posted on 05/27/2020 2:46:16 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: DLfromthedesert

but=buy


18 posted on 05/27/2020 2:47:56 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: KevinB
Yup. From your link:

Noam Chomsky said in 1998:

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

19 posted on 05/27/2020 2:49:10 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

I live in Connecticut where we’ve had a mandatory mask order for a while now. As of May 20 retail stores re-opened two in person shopping, however there was an interesting discussion On one of the local forms about how once some of the stores open there was very little foot traffic compared to what many of these liberals thought they would be.

A few people brought up the fact that the state requires you to wear a mask and that many people are sick of it, especially as the weather gets warmer people don’t want to wear them everywhere they go, so they are choosing to not patronize these local businesses once they realize they can just buy almost everything off Amazon. Of course, the liberals refused to acknowledge that could be the reason as they are out there screaming at anyone taking a walk without wearing a mask.


20 posted on 05/27/2020 2:50:01 PM PDT by matt04
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