In the dawn of the Covid scare, little less than a year ago, masks were not on the horizon in the Covid struggle. Our Lord and Savior, Dr. Anthony Fauci, dismissed them as unnecessary in March 2020. In April, he waffled, and by May he was fully on board. You may note here, he was clearly a follower, not a leader in these and virtually every other aspect of the dealing with Covid, this in spite of preparing his for his whole life back to his Cornell days where he received his MD. Even in May 2020, masks were a recommendation in most places, not yet a diktat, but this is where their utility evolved, gradually less as medical hygiene, until now more a social control.
I’ve discussed masks several times, most recently in December. I’ll admit that they have some utility, particularly when someone is forced shoulder to shoulder with carriers of any pathogen, whether it be flu, cold or Covid. A mask, even an N-95, does not filter viruses. Stay close to anyone infected for a sufficient amount of time and you’ll be infected unless you’re wearing an impermeable bio-hazard suit. A mask buys you time, measured in just minutes depending on the variable of time, distance, and exposure but even here, there are strong caveats, even ones that suggest counter-productivity. New disorders to the mouth, nose, lungs, and breathing are arising from long term mask use. Macro-analysis clearly shows that cities, states, and countries that institute the most rigorous mask mandates fare far worse in infections; the why, I speculate on in my linked articles.
I present to you, science, but our politicians have envisioned something far more attractive in ask mandates. I don’t pretend to know all the mechanics of why your mayor, governor, or presidential regime are so anxious to enslave you, but I see three pieces of evidence that support my thesis that they are:
First, we’re now in a place where elected officials, their health ‘experts’, and media enablers, routinely pass off policy initiatives without even bothering to claim science. When they try, they ignore either their own prior guidance or long-standing precedent in public health, for example, the many localities that forcefully limited absolutely safe outdoor exercise with no justification.
Second: Just like flattening the curve was once a goal, now, even vaccinations which are well under way are no longer a means toward non-mask normalcy. They even imply that the vaccination may not prevent you from being a carrier and may not really protect you from the suspect almost daily proliferation of Covid ‘variants’. They’re careful to not claim that vaccines are worthless, but steadfast to claim that that they don’t know. If they can’t ever know anything for sure, than you can’t ever know and thus you can never stop wearing your mask or going back to normal. This is incredibly disingenuous of governments and their newly empowered pompous health officials.
Third, now that these government initiatives have been so consistently shoved on the populace, most people now act in absolute obedience and fear as an auto-response. One cannot imagine any public place in my area that does not dutifully post the government order and at least pretend that they will enforce it on behalf of the government. Who could have foreseen that a year ago? Rarely do we see anything but absolute compliance by the people. Governments like obedience. A servile electorate is incredibly useful to government, long after Covid no longer presents a danger.
I wear a gaiter in public places in ways that could be more construed as a clothing rather than hygiene and in a way intended to signal civil disobedience. I wear it in a manner consistent with well known, proven, and publicized clinical science, specifically where distance and time exposure negate the necessity. I wear it to the extent that I do primarily as a courtesy to anyone that might be a fearful beaten down sheep that doesn’t know or cannot exercise critical thinking for themselves. I have yet to receive an objection from anyone. I avoid places that I’d consider a hot spot so as to not force confrontation.
For the long game – and it will be a long game, I will boycott any organization, institution, and businesses that perpetuates any hard stance for the sake of the lies, manipulation, and subjugation that our government and health officials have embraced. A year ago, we simply didn’t know what we were dealing with. Later we did but we had not gotten a handle on therapies for worst case sickness or finalized a vaccine. We’re past that stage now. Stand up to and stop the mandates, subjugation and fear.