Is the mask dam starting to break? In Iowa, Governor Kim Reynolds has lifted her state’s mask mandate. In Texas, too, Governor Abbott has said businesses can operate at full capacity, and no more masks. In Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves has revoked the state’s mask mandate in all counties. And there are a few more who have taken similar steps, like Montana and North Dakota, joining South Dakota which never had a mask law in the first place. The mask mandates are crumbling.
“For quite a few months now, my family has been living a normal life, unimpeded by covid hysteria,” reported John Hinderaker on powerlineblog.com. “Sure, it’s not perfect: the restaurants are open again, but we do have to wear masks for a few seconds while walking to our table. Also during the few moments while we walk indoors to our offices, and in grocery stores, etc. Given that I think the science is clear, and masks do no, or virtually no, good, I eagerly await the day when we can burn them all. (Didn’t feminists do that with bras many years ago? Pretty good analogy.)”
Oddly enough, many of the states that require masks are taking an anti-science line toward them. They, with help from the ever-unreliable federal government, are promoting the idea that even after you get vaccinated, you still have to wear a mask. Not to protect yourself, but to protect others. How you can transmit a disease you don’t have to someone else remains a mystery.
Why do the authorities insist on such a patently unscientific position? Simple: you can’t tell, visually, whether a person has been vaccinated or not. Thus, authoritarian politicians and bureaucrats fear that if they admit that vaccinated people don’t need to continue wearing masks, then everyone will stop wearing them. And they won’t know whom to shame.
In addition, all the cautionary efforts when combined seem to be overkill. For example, we social distance, we wash our hands more often as we are encouraged to do, we wear masks, and mom and pop businesses have been forced to close. (Contrarily, the big box stores have remained open. Yes, mom and pop stores are smaller, but a limited number of people enter them at any given time. And there are times when the big box stores seem packed to the gills.) Mask, yes. Distance, yes, Wash hands, yes. Minimize the number of shoppers and diners, yes. But all of these requirements, simultaneously? Makes little or no sense.
Have you had just about enough of this nonsense? Well, you’re not alone. If the more fascist states (New York, Minnesota, Illinois, California–wear the mask between bites!) continue their oppressive mask hysteria, the demographic movement from crazy states to sane states will only accelerate.
What say you Def-Con News readers? Many agree, COVID achieved its purpose, right? Likewise mask mandates achieved their purpose. Whether that purpose was to minimize the spread of a virus or to panic the populace, mission success. Now, the populace is largely ready to move forward. Get the mom and pop businesses back open. Get the restaurants back open. Get people back to work. Get this economy growing again. The Democrats will take the credit, but a majority of the populace know who led us through this national malaise.
