Now that a judge has stayed the federal mask mandate on public transportation, its important to have an honest accounting of what this entire mask situation was truly all about.
A lot of people will make a lot of claims. A tiny sliver will continue to claim mask mandates actually helped mitigate the spread of Covid-19.
They will be the outliers because, in terms of stopping the spread of Covid or any other virus, wearing a mask is the equivalent of doing a rain dance: it might make you feel better, and some quacks will tell you it works, but ultimately it does nothing except make you look foolish and give you a false sense of security.(Vaccine mandates were the modern equivalent of burning witches at the stake.)
It was all so stupid, and foisted on us by people were supposed to trust, which is why we need this honest accounting of what it was really all about.
A lot of people will claim the masks were about establishing and maintaining control. Thats fair, but it wasnt their primary purpose. The primary purpose of the mask mandates was to make every person who wore one a walking advertisement for fear.
If you were wearing a mask, then you were doing your job, because you had given up your right to free expression and replaced it with one, constant sentiment: Im afraid, and you should be too.
That was the main purpose of the masks. Thats why they wanted everyone to keep wearing them. It was about control, yes, but far more than that, it was about promoting fear.
Thats why they lied about the threat Covid poses. Thats why they inflated the number of deaths, counting so often all who diedwithas having diedfrom. Thats why they convinced so many Americans that the threat of hospitalization or death is exponentially higher than it actually is. (For the record, the survival rate for Covid is 99.7 percent for unvaccinated adults, 99.9 percent for vaccinated adults, and 100 percent for unvaccinated children.)
All they did the entire time was work as hard as they could to promote as much fear as possible, and masks were an excellent weapon they could force on you to help spread their message of constant fear, division, and dehumanization.
The mask stripped you of your right to free expression and replaced whatever you wanted to communicate with one single piece of speech: Be afraid.
That was the primary purpose. Thats why they were all so fired up about it. Thats why they were all so desperate for you and everybody else to wear them.
Its important we have our heads around that because it will help us avoid letting them do it again in the future.
It wasnt just about control.
It wasnt just about dividing and dehumanizing us.
It wasnt just about turning us against each other and forcing us to deny science so we could devastate each others social, psychological, and emotional health.
All of those were welcome byproducts to the public health experts and other elites who to this day claim masking provides value. But the primary purpose was to promote fear, and to stifle your speech and expression so you perpetually signaled that fear to everyone else.
You were obedient, yes. But more than that, you were afraid. That was the message, whether you wanted to send it or not.
It was the primary reason they made everyone wear them, and its important we never let them do that to us again.
Hrand Tookman is a Cleveland, Ohio native with a background in interpersonal communications. He writes with an objective of exposing media bias, and inspiring unity in defiance of so many forces today that thrive off of division.
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