Posted on 10/13/2020 4:48:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Or, as Tucker Carlson put it, "obedience training."
Face masks are ubiquitous. In most state, a person can't go into a store, a barber shop, a hair salon, a church service, or most any other place without wearing one. Why? Masks are not effective in stopping a virus spread. Back in March, the now highly touted and nationally heralded Dr. Anthony Fauci thought "people should not be walking around with masks." He said wear a mask if it makes you feel better, but unless you're sick or a health care provider, masks are ineffective in stopping a virus.
Fauci was not alone. In April, the World Health Organization echoed the same sentiment. It said healthy people don't need to wear face masks and that doing so won't provide added protection from the coronavirus.
But word must have come down from the powers on high, and Fauci and the WHO both started singing a new tune. Masks now became essential. As Victor Davis Hanson puts it: "Joe Biden has redefined mask wearing. It is now the thinking man's patriotism, what every 'scientific' and 'refined' mind naturally does." This attitude was eagerly adopted by many public officials nationwide, and now face masks are virtually mandated in a large segment of the country. Citizens have even been arrested for not wearing them on beaches and elsewhere. Then there's California, always the first on the bus to Crazy Town. There, Gov. Gavin Newsom is telling Golden State residents that if they go out to a restaurant to eat, they should have a mask on their face "in between bites." No, I'm not making that up. Is Newsom serious, or is he just seeing how far he can push the envelope?
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And COVID shutdowns may just be conditioning for CO2 shutdown.
On many levels, I think everyone is a slave now. Some are more free than others, but modern society has gone very screwy in the past 100 years or so. The mask is part of that, but the problem is extensive. Our relationship to the government is Slave and Master. Our economic relationships are no longer really “free market”. The term “wage slave” has real meaning, I think. I see the mask as something like the yellow star the Nazis made Jews wear. Know your place. Follow the rules. Enjoy your time in the camps.
The title sounds like a fear article. This must be a big city fear thing, I do not see it in my area.
I think they’re just pissing a lot of people off.
“Some are more free than others”
That is how I see it when I walk into a place of business without a mask on. Most people have the rag on but say nothing to me. I see fear in the eyes of some.
I’ve thought the same thing from the beginning. Only time I wear one is when its mandatory.
Whats scary is these people who have “drank the koolaid” and attack people who aren’t wearing one.
There have always been people dependent on working to survive. My take on “wage slave” is that it gives malcontents common cause with blacks, and reason to believe they’re owed reparations in the form of higher wages. Or maybe I spend to much time paying attention to the little bastards.
Pavlov...
Owed? The problem is the labor market has been manipulated. Using LEGAL immigration and worker visas, prevailing market wages are suppressed artificially DOWNWARD. Borders mean something.
My view of wage slave may be a little different.
If you go back a few centuries, cash wasn’t terribly important to most people. You grew your food, you made your clothes, you may have built your own home. You probably didn’t have debt. You had some money, but not much because your life wasn’t centered around spending, your life was centered around living.
Today, our entire world is built on debt. I need a big mortgage. I need lots of credit cards. I need to pay off my student loans. I need a really good job so that I can make my payments and also my job is what gives me health insurance. I can’t lose my job! What if I get sick?!
Everyone is on a treadmill and debt and taxes and consumerism and health scares loom over everyone. Your job is everything, because if the cash infusions stop, you sink pretty fast.
I don’t think we need to go back and all become subsistence level farmers, but I also don’t think the modern economic world has to be the way it is. They made us wage slaves because it’s a tool of control.
It doesn’t help that every political policy aimed at the the working class is designed to lower wages over the long term. An example is thee outrageous levels of LEGAL immigration.
Visited Lowe’s the other day and I was the only one in the store sans mask.
I don’t even like going out anymore...I need to fight THAT feeling.
“I don’t even like going out anymore...”
I know how you feel. Some stores I will not even go into like Aldi’s too many liberals go there. Walmart, Publix, Home depo, lowes, BJ’s I have no problem going into without a mask.
I see it all the time even though my area hasn’t been overrun with anarchists or heavy-handed politicians...masks have become optional and still 90% of folks are wearing them.
They have become conditioned and it is a reflex action for most of them to don the masks...they write their own “Scarlet A” on their faces every day...
Absolutely. I think that is very much the problem.
The immigration policies, and trade deals like NAFTA are examples of American politicians trying to screw over American workers so that America becomes less powerful. That doesn’t make sense to me, but I’ve been watching it for decades. The American government seems to hate the American people.
Trump is different. I think Trump really sees that things could be very, very different. I am 100% in favor of Trump. He may not get everything right, but it’s really clear that he is trying to build a sensible world in which the American people can prosper. I don’t think anyone has really tried that since Reagan.
The swamp has to be drained before we can move forward with sane pro US worker domestic/industrial policy. The GOP is not on board with that. AT ALL. Just look around this forum.
So much brain-dead stupidity. And where/when will it end? I’m starting to think the answer is never, and that it is, in reality, only the beginning of much worse to come.
I see a lot of the same on the MS Gulf Coast even though we only had a month of mandatory masks...I am seeing a growing number in Walmart that are wearing the mask with the nose free and/or w/o a mask at all...but I only wear one when I want to go into a place that requires them - and then i free my nose and ‘dare” them to comment...got a couple cases of “the look” but nobody has said anything.
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