Posted on 10/14/2020 1:38:20 AM PDT by knighthawk
If someone had asked you a year ago what you thought of people who wear masks after Halloween, the chances are your reaction would have been negative. What kind of person covers his face in public? Armed robbers do that sort of thing. So do Klansmen and radical Wahhabis. The rest of us don't do that.
In fact, until recently, wearing a mask in public was illegal in many places. The assumption was if you're hiding who you are, you're up to something bad. It made people nervous. By our nature, we want to see each other. We need to see each other. Looking at another person's face is the beginning of connection. Eliminating that connection dehumanizes us. That used to be obvious.
A century ago, during the Spanish flu pandemic, authorities in many cities in this country passed mandatory mask ordinances, just like the ones we have now. Many Americans accepted them, but many others did not. In California, citizens rebelled. In January of 1919, 5,000 members of the newly formed Anti-Mask League of San Francisco gathered to call for the mayor's resignation if he didn't repeal his mask order. Five days later, the mayor complied. Science vindicated that decision in the end. A year later, a study found that compulsory mask use likely had no effect on curbing the Spanish flu.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Tucker: What is the scientific rationale for wearing masks?
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6200385361001#sp=show-clips
Masks are dehumanizing besides being worthless. People no longer smile and interact. The masks give a degree of anonymity that makes people feel more free to be rude and churlish (look at internet behavior). a they teach our children to be isolated and impede their social interaction and growth. Masks may be the most damaging part of this whole overreaction
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Thanks for the Tucker Carlson mask post
Women in Iran are bravely going veil-less in public despite threats of arrest, while grown men in the rest of the world skulk behind masks for fear of Karens, or viruses, or other small things.
They work against cameras and face recognition software.
That is why the Chinese also measure your gait.
Hint: heels and inserts
Face masks have little to do with disease control and everything to do with conditioning us sheepeople for social control. For that, they are proving very effective.
The best description of the ineffectiveness of a mask I heard on the radio was: “A Mask is like throwing frozen Peas at a chain link fence ,as far as this virus is concerned.”
That came from an eminent UK Virologist.
Our leaders think masks are holy amulets protecting us from disease. Why?
Masks are like a screen door on a submarine - no protection and very unhealthy.
bravo
Doesn’t matter what facts I show people, they need their myths and amulets to give their lives relevancy
They do this at everyone’s expense and have the lamest justifications for their support of policies that are truly harmful.
I’ll damn sure remind them of their bogus position in the ensuing years of bankruptcies and destroyed lives, which their responsibility
The problem is folks believe masks work so they go out into settings which have a much higher chance of transmission. Like many things in life, the unintended consequences are worse than the perceived benefit.
Masks are dehumanizing besides being worthless. People no longer smile and interact. The masks give a degree of anonymity that makes people feel more free to be rude and churlish ...
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Too true.
Masks spread the damned virus, along with many other bacteria...
Well said!
Masks have now become a ‘fashion statement’ for many people; especially women.
They look like jock straps on your face. I’ll never get used to it.
Masks make wearers look sinister, pure and simple. I’ll never get used to that.
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