Finally, at long last, even some of the mask Bitter-Enders are showing the white flag - my doctor's surgery has finally abandoned its masking policy for all staff and patients. Glory Halleleujah!
But, they refuse to fully give up - if you have any sort of respiratory symptom, you must show evidence of a negative PCR test before attending. It' a toss up as to which is more useless - the mask or the PCR - but the medical profession so lost its marbles over Covid that they are desperately hanging on to something, anything, that reminds them of their glory days and that they weren't all acting like fools for the whole time.
Masks are a sign of mental illness and the willing embrace of your own slavery. The African American iron muzzle of the slave - back in fashion for 2024. The same idiots can't see that eugenics has been rebranded as healthcare. Just today I saw two sheep I know, standing in their driveway talking to someone - all wearing masks. The Controligarchs love seeing people debased and humiliated, because they hate humanity.
Personally, I think I have changed my views. I used to look at mask wearers, especially the ones who still are wearing them today after all the evidence is out that they are worthless, as a bad thing. Now I think it's a good thing, it saves my time of trying to identify who is stupid and who isn't. As the comedian Ron White use to say, "You can't fix stupid!" Linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/ as I somehow missed this one a few days ago
Yes, the "mark" serves a purpose for us as well...we can indeed identify the ones not to be trusted. My doctor still wears a mask when he sees patients, as does his entire staff (the two receptionists wear them all day). I don't trust the guy's judgement as far as I can throw him.
Great points, Todd. When I see someone wearing a mask these days, I think to myself that it (the mask) should have the word "Idiot" written on it. The people that don masks at the mere suggestion by a newscaster are likely the same people who need a laugh track when watching a sitcom: they're too stupid to think for themselves. It's maddening. I don't know. Maybe there really are "useless eaters".
I suggest a different comparison--mask and niqab. The necktie is a social convention, one I personally feel physically uncomfortable with but am not opposed to for social reasons, as it tends to elevate behavior, while facial coverings serve an entirely different function. As you rightly point out, they dehumanize--literally--by removing the face of the wearer from public society. They are facial fig leaves. Islamic theocracies love them, as they objectify women while removing them from all participation in life outside the home, where the husband rules supremely. For that reason, all Western societies condemn them as inhumane.
We should do the same with the mask. They are no different. It's ironic that a practice we rightly shun as religious oppression has been voluntarily taken up--by women AND men--and promulgated as a sign of virtue. Those who reject it face public attacks, beatings, arrest, unemployment, and social ostracism, no different than women in Islamic countries who reject forced face coverings.
Thanks Mark...I used neck ties as an example precisely because the "reason" for them has been totally lost...but I get your point entirely, and agree entirely.
Yesterday my husband and I went to Red Lobster in the middle of the afternoon. Lo and behold there was a couple sitting in there fully masked. They would slide their mask to the side to eat. I was like, Holy F...! I really wanted to go over there and yank them off their faces. It makes me angry too, how easily people have been programmed to 'be good' and to 'be scared'. Some people say well as long as they don't force those of us who don't want to wear one, to oblige - who cares? I care because you can see the next thread of this fiasco playing out, just as you outline in your article.
You are just like me! Even when masks were “mandated”, I refused to wear one! I prayed/pray to God for protection, Psalm 91. Every time I went into a store, it was like going “to war”! I was refused service at Safeway to buy one item. I even told the manager I’d leave the money at the register, or meet him outside! REFUSED! The longer this goes on, the tougher I get!!!!
These are the type of people that make it harder for ALL of us, and they piss me off. Pure STUPIDITY...
This is how masking ends. Reasserting our rights that international human rights courts have declared are free faces. It is a Human Right to look someone in the face in public without a facial covering. Facial coverings have been BANNED for public safety, security and communication. To live peaceably together. Even as recently as 2019, just months before masks were mandated they were banned, the laws upheld under international appeals.
The fact that these rulings were ignored in 2020 doesn't make their findings any less true. Short memories, fear and symbolic virtue signaling don't make these findings of facts go away.
You remember them as 'burqa bans.' But they applied to ALL facial coverings, specifically including masks for the reasons given:
"Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France's burqa ban, accepting Paris's argument that it encouraged citizens to "live together".
The law, introduced in 2010, makes it illegal for anyone to cover their face in a public place...the law was not aimed at the burqa or veil but any covering of the face in a public place...
...The European judges decided...that the preservation of a certain idea of "living together" was the "legitimate aim" of the French authorities.
Aside from questions of security and equality, she added: "It's about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing."
The French and Belgian laws were aimed at "helping everyone to integrate", Niedlispacher added."
Burqa bans, headscarves and veils: a timeline of legislation in the west (2010-2018)
"On August 1, 2019, the “Act Partially Prohibiting Face-Covering Clothing,” entered into force in the Netherlands. The Act prohibits the wearing of clothing that completely or partially conceals the face in spaces where people are expected to communicate with each other. Thus, face-covering clothing is banned on public transportation and in educational, governmental, and nursing care institutions, but is still allowed in such public spaces as on train platforms. The ban applies to burqas, niqabs, full-face helmets, balaclavas, and masks, but not to headscarves."
Yes! I have made this point in countless conversations, with both sheep and shrews. Not so long ago, wearing any kind of mask was considered illegal, and anyone concealing their face was considered a threat to others.
This is excellent information, thank you. I have toyed with the idea of writing an article about masks from a more psychological perspective, i.e., using them in prisons to humiliate inmates, etc. What you say here certainly would provide information for such an article. I haven't written it because I don't think 1,200 words would do it justice (I limit my articles to about 1,200 words). Anyway...thanks for bringing this up, it really is VERY important...
Masks were banned because psychological science said they evoked mass fear. Largely because masks trigger the amygdala 'fight, flight or freeze' response, the same as seeing a snake! There's a reason that plane hijackers and bank robbers were the only ones wearing masks pre-2020 and it wasn't just to conceal their identity:
Of snakes and faces: An evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear
Scandanavian Journal of Psychology, November 19, 2009
Masks are and always have been behavioral science-based "fear amplification" NPI devices to scare us apart. That contradict findings of international courts that we have the human right to see free faces! Overridden because health officials decided we suffered - suffered! - from "optimism bias" when it came to the risk that CV posed to us so we *needed* fear:
What Is Optimism Bias, And How Is It Affecting Our Response To The Pandemic?
And to cure us of our optimism we suffered from they prescribed "fear amplification" as our Rx. This is The Science (TM) of masking. Hiding in plain sight in the ambiguity of the word "science." Nobody has bothered asking the health officials claiming masking is "the best science" exactly what *type* of science they are referring to. Natural, Medical? Or Social, Behavioral?
The type of science behind masking must be put on trial, in courts of law and public opinion. And only public hearings will do this. We must agitate for this truth to come out. Behind the lies of pseudosciences are the armies of tyrants planning their next assault. On our minds and bodies. Put their science of mind-farkery on trial. Masks. Jabs. Climate. Gender. Carbon. Food. Population. All of it. Based in the same science of illusion, deceit and coercion Behavioural Sciences. This, here, now, is the moment to once and for all vanquish them for good! You know the "you will own nothing and be happy eating bugs" applies the same "science" to achieve their goals:
Here. Now. It stops here, now, with the public hearing on pseudosciences that relitigating the bans on facial coverings will expose. Go on offense. Ban them. They will never go away until they are banned...for good...forever.
This is all an article in itself!!! Amazing info. Have you put this on your substack? I am going to copy and past it and save it for future reference. Excellent.
Thank you for your review of it all, I have no ownership of the material and presentation of it. I encourage all to share it as far and wide as it can reach.
I've included the subject and much of the content and links in a couple postings on my Stack, but not stand alone.
I've followed several of the writers who focus on masks, like Ian Miller, and have shared these insights on their Stacks, but those writers all seem stuck on disproving the medical science of masking. It's an argument they'll never win, even in a public or courtroom debate, because it comes down to 'my expert medical science findings vs your expert medical science findings.'
In a contest of medical science findings the courts (and a public emotionally invested in government expert claims they obeyed) give wide deference to the medical science findings of the government's experts, mere plausibility of government claims seems to be the standard courts (and the public) uphold.
I believe that shifting the contest to a different field that's not weighted in their favor is the most important tactic we can take. Pressing the attack on the social/behavioral science front may prove more advantageous. That's where the soft underbelly of their mandate justifications are. The symbolic nature of masks to evoke a psychosocial response opens up more avenues to challenge them in both courts of law and the court of public opinion.
People don't like to learn they've been manipulated into making sacrifices, doing harmful things to themselves and others. The behaviorists are very aware of the vulnerability of deceiving their target audience, terms like 'blowback' and 'backfire' are a part of the education in applied behaviorism. Hence the massive censorship campaign.
And when you add in the fact that behaviorists chose masks primarily for symbolic reasons as their NPI you open up mask mandates to First Amendment violation legal action. Symbols are speech. The oldest form of speech. Understood even by the illiterate. And mandated speech is just as much a violation of the First Amendment as prohibited speech. The speech that masks were/are symbolizing, "there's danger in the air, lurking everywhere, be afraid, very afraid, hide, avoid others." Remember, to cure our "optimism bias." And the act of not wearing a mask was speech symbolizing, "we'll be okay, we have nothing to fear but fear itself." The government and their Big Media/Big Medicine/Big Corporate partners screamed "fire" in a crowded movie theater, and demanded the entire audience also had to shout "fire" to everyone around them - even when it was obvious there was no smoke or flames. Whereas our efforts to say "don't panic, there's no fire" as we observed there was no smoke or flames was prohibited. Official government propaganda symbolic slogans had to be parroted, debunking propaganda symbolic slogans was criminalized. Free speech civil rights violations. And human rights violations, the right to see a free face.
I've strongly believed and shared that shifting the fight to the field of social/behavioral science by attacking the *type* of science the mandates were/are based in has a stronger chance of prevailing in both legal and public courts than attacking 'he said/she said' medical science claims.
I'll close this comment with another article link to from early in 2020 when the shift was made to mandate masks. Health Affairs is a leading behavioral health publication, cited by public policy officials in the US and around the world. It was even cited by Justice Roberts in his ruling that upheld Obamacare. Masks didn't work medically. But so what. They wanted the symbolism, they wanted to amplify the fear. By the way, another world for fear amplification is 'terrorize.' Government public health policy chose terrorism as its primary NPI. Think about that.
I also hear so often the comment about masks, "Well, its better than nothing. If someone sneezes on you, you have less of a chance of getting their disease (if they have one) if you have a mask on. So why not wear one?"
I live in a small town of about 1,000 people and masks have never gone away. In particular, the staff of our (one) local pharmacy all wear masks and I witnessed an old man, who was hard of hearing, ask a staff member to remove hers - she completely ignored him 😡 I do not wear a mask because they freak me out and, at the start of 2020, during a hospital visit for a COPD checkup - (I had warned the hospital in advance) - I was treated like a terrorist - I was put standing outside in the rain while a security guard was called to escort me inside, after which I was prohibited from using the waiting room and was put sitting/ignored in a dark unventilated corridor for two hours... great for one's health!!! I no longer go for hospital checkups. As an aside, people still queue up for booster shots ... the mind boggles.
Ellie, you sound like me! I had two necessary operations 3 years ago (cancer/hernia FROM the cancer surgery). I was scared to death! After the hernia surgery (same day surgery), the hospital was forcing me to wear a mask! Yet, they wanted me to BREATH (oxygen level)! Absolutely evil! I was in tears because of the excruciating pain and the mask bs. I And I’m a tough little 🐕!
I also lost my job of 23 years because I refused the swab test/jab!
I WILL NEVER, EVER WEAR A MASK
ON MY GOD CREATED FACE! ✝️Every single medical “professional” is complicit with evil that does this.
OMG that is horrible!! When I hear stories like yours I literally shudder and realize it IS as bad as I think it is (even through your hospital story happened at the start of this nightmare). And I would be willing to bet you if you told your story to a sheep they would shrug and say, "well, you brought that on yourself." Frightening...
I believe all this will come back...Covid was just a trial run, TPTB have not given up their program...they will pick it up again sooner than later.
You couldn't have hit the nail more perfectly on the head, "in a few years no one will even know the original reason people started wearing them". Lord love us, I think this will happen to the majority. I suffer from revulsion, almost to the point of nausea, every time I see someone wearing a face diaper. The day that this becomes acceptable to me, I will know that I've lost my last few marbles.
You describe me exactly. It troubles me that I allow it to bother me so much. I used to get angry, now I get terribly sad...my beautiful world of nature, fresh air, and security in God's created world, is shattered by people who believe that they cannot exist unless they restrict their breathing of air, the mingling of human bodies in public, etc. ALL FORCED ON US BY A LIE as the "elite" stand around and snicker at what stupid pushovers we all are. IT DISGUSTS ME BEYOND NO END....@#$)*%@&@)*$
I refuse to wear a mask although I have complied and worn them in health facilities that otherwise will not see me. On the other hand I know people who have not stopped wearing theirs even after the Covid plague was declared over. I don’t care what other people choose to do but don’t force your beliefs on me.
I would encourage you to reclaim the power of language, linguistics to shape public perception, and stop referring to them as "health facilities." The clearly are not facilities where health is their primary focus.
The medical profession has told us in no uncertain terms (with frighteningly few exceptions) that their primary focus is protecting their ability to charge for services that may or may not improve the health and wellness of their clients, depending on what their licensing boards, medical insurers they are reimbursed by and medical malpractice insurers that cover their professional liability tell them to do. But make no mistake what they are told to do often has nothing to do with improving your health, and in many instances will harm your health.
Their medical licenses and ability to practice comes first. Never trust your health and life to someone who's told you in word and/or deed that your health and life are not their primary focus. The facilities are not primarily for "health." Don't give them credit for being something they no longer are, if they ever were. I've not come up with a better, catchy term/description yet, I welcome suggestions.
You are right, but I am sure that Debra was using the term for clarity so we would understand her point. I use similar language in my articles, language that is not fully accurate...but I totally get what you are saying, and the importance of it.
I have reached this point as well, and am very proud of my refusal to be a wimp. Just recently I told my urologist I was not going to come in for an appointment if I was required to wear a mask...I made a big stink of it because they had in the appointment confirmation email, in big bold red letters, "YOU MUST WEAR A MASK IN THE WAITING ROOM"
After I made my big fuss, they informed me they no longer require masks...I said, "oh, ok, never mind"...like Rosanne Rosannadanna on SNL
Todd, this reminds me of the dentist I see. They were still sending questionnaires to fill out last year re covid. I refused. I said, I am healthy and if I didn't feel well I wouldn't be going for my cleaning. They tried twice and I said it again. They didn't pursue it. I go next week so I will see if they are still following the BS.
Finally, at long last, even some of the mask Bitter-Enders are showing the white flag - my doctor's surgery has finally abandoned its masking policy for all staff and patients. Glory Halleleujah!
But, they refuse to fully give up - if you have any sort of respiratory symptom, you must show evidence of a negative PCR test before attending. It' a toss up as to which is more useless - the mask or the PCR - but the medical profession so lost its marbles over Covid that they are desperately hanging on to something, anything, that reminds them of their glory days and that they weren't all acting like fools for the whole time.
Another point of view from Fabio Vighi in October 2023 from the Philosophical Salon:
"The return of the face mask is a symptom of economic stress."
Masks are a sign of mental illness and the willing embrace of your own slavery. The African American iron muzzle of the slave - back in fashion for 2024. The same idiots can't see that eugenics has been rebranded as healthcare. Just today I saw two sheep I know, standing in their driveway talking to someone - all wearing masks. The Controligarchs love seeing people debased and humiliated, because they hate humanity.
Personally, I think I have changed my views. I used to look at mask wearers, especially the ones who still are wearing them today after all the evidence is out that they are worthless, as a bad thing. Now I think it's a good thing, it saves my time of trying to identify who is stupid and who isn't. As the comedian Ron White use to say, "You can't fix stupid!" Linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/ as I somehow missed this one a few days ago
Thanks for the link!!
Yes, the "mark" serves a purpose for us as well...we can indeed identify the ones not to be trusted. My doctor still wears a mask when he sees patients, as does his entire staff (the two receptionists wear them all day). I don't trust the guy's judgement as far as I can throw him.
Great points, Todd. When I see someone wearing a mask these days, I think to myself that it (the mask) should have the word "Idiot" written on it. The people that don masks at the mere suggestion by a newscaster are likely the same people who need a laugh track when watching a sitcom: they're too stupid to think for themselves. It's maddening. I don't know. Maybe there really are "useless eaters".
Sometimes I think the same thing and wonder if I am on the right side.
Haha! I'm sure you're kidding. It's just so aggravating to watch those maskers walk around like they're normal.
Yes...I hope so...no, seriously, of course not, but I do get frustrated...
Very interesting. You are probably correct, I'm sorry to say!
I suggest a different comparison--mask and niqab. The necktie is a social convention, one I personally feel physically uncomfortable with but am not opposed to for social reasons, as it tends to elevate behavior, while facial coverings serve an entirely different function. As you rightly point out, they dehumanize--literally--by removing the face of the wearer from public society. They are facial fig leaves. Islamic theocracies love them, as they objectify women while removing them from all participation in life outside the home, where the husband rules supremely. For that reason, all Western societies condemn them as inhumane.
We should do the same with the mask. They are no different. It's ironic that a practice we rightly shun as religious oppression has been voluntarily taken up--by women AND men--and promulgated as a sign of virtue. Those who reject it face public attacks, beatings, arrest, unemployment, and social ostracism, no different than women in Islamic countries who reject forced face coverings.
The mask is the secular niqab.
As Renee remarks below, Boom💥!
Thanks Mark...I used neck ties as an example precisely because the "reason" for them has been totally lost...but I get your point entirely, and agree entirely.
Boom💥!
Yesterday my husband and I went to Red Lobster in the middle of the afternoon. Lo and behold there was a couple sitting in there fully masked. They would slide their mask to the side to eat. I was like, Holy F...! I really wanted to go over there and yank them off their faces. It makes me angry too, how easily people have been programmed to 'be good' and to 'be scared'. Some people say well as long as they don't force those of us who don't want to wear one, to oblige - who cares? I care because you can see the next thread of this fiasco playing out, just as you outline in your article.
You are just like me! Even when masks were “mandated”, I refused to wear one! I prayed/pray to God for protection, Psalm 91. Every time I went into a store, it was like going “to war”! I was refused service at Safeway to buy one item. I even told the manager I’d leave the money at the register, or meet him outside! REFUSED! The longer this goes on, the tougher I get!!!!
These are the type of people that make it harder for ALL of us, and they piss me off. Pure STUPIDITY...
Your story is a case in point and illustrates just what my article was addressing. Good lord.
I was so angry when I got home, I started crying…OUT OF FRUSTRATION! I guess chicks do that sometimes…but watch out when they stop crying 😉🤣😂🤣😂🤬!
P.S. I only cry in private, especially after working with men nearly 40 years. Oh hell no!
This is how masking ends. Reasserting our rights that international human rights courts have declared are free faces. It is a Human Right to look someone in the face in public without a facial covering. Facial coverings have been BANNED for public safety, security and communication. To live peaceably together. Even as recently as 2019, just months before masks were mandated they were banned, the laws upheld under international appeals.
The fact that these rulings were ignored in 2020 doesn't make their findings any less true. Short memories, fear and symbolic virtue signaling don't make these findings of facts go away.
You remember them as 'burqa bans.' But they applied to ALL facial coverings, specifically including masks for the reasons given:
France's burqa ban upheld by human rights court
The UK Guardian, July 1, 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/france-burqa-ban-upheld-human-rights-court
(or behind paywall https://archive.fo/WinLY )
"Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France's burqa ban, accepting Paris's argument that it encouraged citizens to "live together".
The law, introduced in 2010, makes it illegal for anyone to cover their face in a public place...the law was not aimed at the burqa or veil but any covering of the face in a public place...
...The European judges decided...that the preservation of a certain idea of "living together" was the "legitimate aim" of the French authorities.
Aside from questions of security and equality, she added: "It's about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing."
The French and Belgian laws were aimed at "helping everyone to integrate", Niedlispacher added."
Burqa bans, headscarves and veils: a timeline of legislation in the west (2010-2018)
UK Guardian, May 31, 2018
https://archive.fo/WinLY
Netherlands: Burqa Ban Enters into Force
Library of Congress, August 27, 2019
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2019-08-27/netherlands-burqa-ban-enters-into-force/
"On August 1, 2019, the “Act Partially Prohibiting Face-Covering Clothing,” entered into force in the Netherlands. The Act prohibits the wearing of clothing that completely or partially conceals the face in spaces where people are expected to communicate with each other. Thus, face-covering clothing is banned on public transportation and in educational, governmental, and nursing care institutions, but is still allowed in such public spaces as on train platforms. The ban applies to burqas, niqabs, full-face helmets, balaclavas, and masks, but not to headscarves."
Yes! I have made this point in countless conversations, with both sheep and shrews. Not so long ago, wearing any kind of mask was considered illegal, and anyone concealing their face was considered a threat to others.
Yep.
This is excellent information, thank you. I have toyed with the idea of writing an article about masks from a more psychological perspective, i.e., using them in prisons to humiliate inmates, etc. What you say here certainly would provide information for such an article. I haven't written it because I don't think 1,200 words would do it justice (I limit my articles to about 1,200 words). Anyway...thanks for bringing this up, it really is VERY important...
Masks were banned because psychological science said they evoked mass fear. Largely because masks trigger the amygdala 'fight, flight or freeze' response, the same as seeing a snake! There's a reason that plane hijackers and bank robbers were the only ones wearing masks pre-2020 and it wasn't just to conceal their identity:
Of snakes and faces: An evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear
Scandanavian Journal of Psychology, November 19, 2009
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00784.x
EXCELLENT!!
Masks are and always have been behavioral science-based "fear amplification" NPI devices to scare us apart. That contradict findings of international courts that we have the human right to see free faces! Overridden because health officials decided we suffered - suffered! - from "optimism bias" when it came to the risk that CV posed to us so we *needed* fear:
What Is Optimism Bias, And How Is It Affecting Our Response To The Pandemic?
Wisconsin Public Radio, January 6, 2021
https://www.wpr.org/what-optimism-bias-and-how-it-affecting-our-response-pandemic
And to cure us of our optimism we suffered from they prescribed "fear amplification" as our Rx. This is The Science (TM) of masking. Hiding in plain sight in the ambiguity of the word "science." Nobody has bothered asking the health officials claiming masking is "the best science" exactly what *type* of science they are referring to. Natural, Medical? Or Social, Behavioral?
The type of science behind masking must be put on trial, in courts of law and public opinion. And only public hearings will do this. We must agitate for this truth to come out. Behind the lies of pseudosciences are the armies of tyrants planning their next assault. On our minds and bodies. Put their science of mind-farkery on trial. Masks. Jabs. Climate. Gender. Carbon. Food. Population. All of it. Based in the same science of illusion, deceit and coercion Behavioural Sciences. This, here, now, is the moment to once and for all vanquish them for good! You know the "you will own nothing and be happy eating bugs" applies the same "science" to achieve their goals:
https://www.undp.org/publications/behavioural-insights-united-nations-achieving-agenda-2030
Here. Now. It stops here, now, with the public hearing on pseudosciences that relitigating the bans on facial coverings will expose. Go on offense. Ban them. They will never go away until they are banned...for good...forever.
This is all an article in itself!!! Amazing info. Have you put this on your substack? I am going to copy and past it and save it for future reference. Excellent.
Thank you for your review of it all, I have no ownership of the material and presentation of it. I encourage all to share it as far and wide as it can reach.
I've included the subject and much of the content and links in a couple postings on my Stack, but not stand alone.
I've followed several of the writers who focus on masks, like Ian Miller, and have shared these insights on their Stacks, but those writers all seem stuck on disproving the medical science of masking. It's an argument they'll never win, even in a public or courtroom debate, because it comes down to 'my expert medical science findings vs your expert medical science findings.'
In a contest of medical science findings the courts (and a public emotionally invested in government expert claims they obeyed) give wide deference to the medical science findings of the government's experts, mere plausibility of government claims seems to be the standard courts (and the public) uphold.
I believe that shifting the contest to a different field that's not weighted in their favor is the most important tactic we can take. Pressing the attack on the social/behavioral science front may prove more advantageous. That's where the soft underbelly of their mandate justifications are. The symbolic nature of masks to evoke a psychosocial response opens up more avenues to challenge them in both courts of law and the court of public opinion.
People don't like to learn they've been manipulated into making sacrifices, doing harmful things to themselves and others. The behaviorists are very aware of the vulnerability of deceiving their target audience, terms like 'blowback' and 'backfire' are a part of the education in applied behaviorism. Hence the massive censorship campaign.
And when you add in the fact that behaviorists chose masks primarily for symbolic reasons as their NPI you open up mask mandates to First Amendment violation legal action. Symbols are speech. The oldest form of speech. Understood even by the illiterate. And mandated speech is just as much a violation of the First Amendment as prohibited speech. The speech that masks were/are symbolizing, "there's danger in the air, lurking everywhere, be afraid, very afraid, hide, avoid others." Remember, to cure our "optimism bias." And the act of not wearing a mask was speech symbolizing, "we'll be okay, we have nothing to fear but fear itself." The government and their Big Media/Big Medicine/Big Corporate partners screamed "fire" in a crowded movie theater, and demanded the entire audience also had to shout "fire" to everyone around them - even when it was obvious there was no smoke or flames. Whereas our efforts to say "don't panic, there's no fire" as we observed there was no smoke or flames was prohibited. Official government propaganda symbolic slogans had to be parroted, debunking propaganda symbolic slogans was criminalized. Free speech civil rights violations. And human rights violations, the right to see a free face.
I've strongly believed and shared that shifting the fight to the field of social/behavioral science by attacking the *type* of science the mandates were/are based in has a stronger chance of prevailing in both legal and public courts than attacking 'he said/she said' medical science claims.
I'll close this comment with another article link to from early in 2020 when the shift was made to mandate masks. Health Affairs is a leading behavioral health publication, cited by public policy officials in the US and around the world. It was even cited by Justice Roberts in his ruling that upheld Obamacare. Masks didn't work medically. But so what. They wanted the symbolism, they wanted to amplify the fear. By the way, another world for fear amplification is 'terrorize.' Government public health policy chose terrorism as its primary NPI. Think about that.
Flu Masks Failed In 1918, But We Need Them Now
Health Affairs, May 12, 2020
https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/flu-masks-failed-1918-but-we-need-them-now
Thanks again.
I also hear so often the comment about masks, "Well, its better than nothing. If someone sneezes on you, you have less of a chance of getting their disease (if they have one) if you have a mask on. So why not wear one?"
Yes, I hear it too. They really did a bang-up job of making people believe in cooties over the many years.
I live in a small town of about 1,000 people and masks have never gone away. In particular, the staff of our (one) local pharmacy all wear masks and I witnessed an old man, who was hard of hearing, ask a staff member to remove hers - she completely ignored him 😡 I do not wear a mask because they freak me out and, at the start of 2020, during a hospital visit for a COPD checkup - (I had warned the hospital in advance) - I was treated like a terrorist - I was put standing outside in the rain while a security guard was called to escort me inside, after which I was prohibited from using the waiting room and was put sitting/ignored in a dark unventilated corridor for two hours... great for one's health!!! I no longer go for hospital checkups. As an aside, people still queue up for booster shots ... the mind boggles.
Ellie, you sound like me! I had two necessary operations 3 years ago (cancer/hernia FROM the cancer surgery). I was scared to death! After the hernia surgery (same day surgery), the hospital was forcing me to wear a mask! Yet, they wanted me to BREATH (oxygen level)! Absolutely evil! I was in tears because of the excruciating pain and the mask bs. I And I’m a tough little 🐕!
I also lost my job of 23 years because I refused the swab test/jab!
I WILL NEVER, EVER WEAR A MASK
ON MY GOD CREATED FACE! ✝️Every single medical “professional” is complicit with evil that does this.
OMG that is horrible!! When I hear stories like yours I literally shudder and realize it IS as bad as I think it is (even through your hospital story happened at the start of this nightmare). And I would be willing to bet you if you told your story to a sheep they would shrug and say, "well, you brought that on yourself." Frightening...
I believe all this will come back...Covid was just a trial run, TPTB have not given up their program...they will pick it up again sooner than later.
You couldn't have hit the nail more perfectly on the head, "in a few years no one will even know the original reason people started wearing them". Lord love us, I think this will happen to the majority. I suffer from revulsion, almost to the point of nausea, every time I see someone wearing a face diaper. The day that this becomes acceptable to me, I will know that I've lost my last few marbles.
You describe me exactly. It troubles me that I allow it to bother me so much. I used to get angry, now I get terribly sad...my beautiful world of nature, fresh air, and security in God's created world, is shattered by people who believe that they cannot exist unless they restrict their breathing of air, the mingling of human bodies in public, etc. ALL FORCED ON US BY A LIE as the "elite" stand around and snicker at what stupid pushovers we all are. IT DISGUSTS ME BEYOND NO END....@#$)*%@&@)*$
I refuse to wear a mask although I have complied and worn them in health facilities that otherwise will not see me. On the other hand I know people who have not stopped wearing theirs even after the Covid plague was declared over. I don’t care what other people choose to do but don’t force your beliefs on me.
I would encourage you to reclaim the power of language, linguistics to shape public perception, and stop referring to them as "health facilities." The clearly are not facilities where health is their primary focus.
The medical profession has told us in no uncertain terms (with frighteningly few exceptions) that their primary focus is protecting their ability to charge for services that may or may not improve the health and wellness of their clients, depending on what their licensing boards, medical insurers they are reimbursed by and medical malpractice insurers that cover their professional liability tell them to do. But make no mistake what they are told to do often has nothing to do with improving your health, and in many instances will harm your health.
Their medical licenses and ability to practice comes first. Never trust your health and life to someone who's told you in word and/or deed that your health and life are not their primary focus. The facilities are not primarily for "health." Don't give them credit for being something they no longer are, if they ever were. I've not come up with a better, catchy term/description yet, I welcome suggestions.
As you probably know more correct name for WHO = World Homicide Organisation ... maybe Snake Oil Facilities for health facilities???
You are right, but I am sure that Debra was using the term for clarity so we would understand her point. I use similar language in my articles, language that is not fully accurate...but I totally get what you are saying, and the importance of it.
I have reached this point as well, and am very proud of my refusal to be a wimp. Just recently I told my urologist I was not going to come in for an appointment if I was required to wear a mask...I made a big stink of it because they had in the appointment confirmation email, in big bold red letters, "YOU MUST WEAR A MASK IN THE WAITING ROOM"
After I made my big fuss, they informed me they no longer require masks...I said, "oh, ok, never mind"...like Rosanne Rosannadanna on SNL
I loved that skit with Gilda!
Todd, this reminds me of the dentist I see. They were still sending questionnaires to fill out last year re covid. I refused. I said, I am healthy and if I didn't feel well I wouldn't be going for my cleaning. They tried twice and I said it again. They didn't pursue it. I go next week so I will see if they are still following the BS.
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