I hesitated to write the title of this article. The last thing I want to do is manifest a reality that includes some of the most illogical, unscientific, unethical, unlawful, and harmful diktats of recent history. That’s why I changed the title to a question. I need you (and I) and everyone reading (and not reading) this to refuse, both hypothetically and practically, to accept a world where what we saw in the last few years is ever able to be a reality again.
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I could badger you with study after study - all stored on my computer - of this inefficacy and harm of masking (Cochrane review), lockdowns, and vaccine mandates. Honestly, I am too existentially tired with that route to put the effort in. I have spent too much time already pouring over these data and analyses. I have rallied against supposed experts and entrenched laymen. I have had them all backdown and slink away, at the very least admitting the unfavorable cost-benefit of these interventions, or (unfortunately) devolve into irrational ad hominem attacks and cascades of logical fallacies. I have felt like Sisyphus repeating the same arduous task with a sense of progress only to be forced to start again as if I had never made any ground. The wrath of the pandemic gods demons has sometimes seemed to be unrelenting. The Science (TM) has his pfaithful minions everywhere, maintaining their fervent genuflecting ways.
It felt like (at least) this iteration of the insanity was over, yet like a Faucian Groundhog Day, it seems we are here again. The Church of the New Normal (CNN) and the other colluding legacy media have once again begun to beat their fear-mongering drums of rising cases of covid and the possibilities of masking coming back. There have already been a few sites, hospitals and universities, where the mandates are back. It is wild, ridiculous, ludicrous.
Where I live, we haven’t seen any generalized mandates for over a year. We’ve made it through a fall and winter without the forced masking. While a small sprinkling of the population has remained hidden with their face talismans, they have become a rarity, a sign of lingering irrational fear and PTSD from the repetitive doom and gloom hypnotic drivel spewing out of media and government orifices. Seemingly any sane, life-affirming human has returned to living as done by us and our ancestors for time immemorial.
This begs the question: Can they really bring back such nonsense?
Also…
Will you comply?
Will your fellow citizens?
Can they actually get a way with it again?
Why are they even trying?
Is it a bait and switch or some other rouse to capture our hearts and minds for further manipulation?
Is it a set-up?
I don’t have the answers clear in my mind other than I am done listening. If you thought I was rebellious before, I am feeling John Rambo-esque now.
I don’t see how they can expect to have compliance anywhere close to what they previously had. Many have gained insight as to the absurdity who previously just thought they were just being ‘good citizens’. The theoretical justification for these draconian and unconstitutional measures have been thoroughly dismantled. Even if one does not read through the data comparing mandate locations to non-mandate regions, it should be obvious that after a significant time without mandates and the ‘old normal’ ways returning, the interventions are nothing but theatrics for virus management.
Also, as far as I know, the declared state of emergencies are off, meaning that the constitutional rights that are suppressed for mandate declarations are not downgraded. In fact, I don’t think these constitutional rights ever were able to be suppressed. The constitution is explicitly designed to protect individual rights from government overreach, even in an emergency.
The government is on the hook to produce undeniable evidence that a suppression of the constitution is warranted and then they must declare how long it is warranted for. They have not and are unable to do this. Because it is all bullshit!
Call them out! DO NOT COMPLY!
In other countries where enough people have stood up for themselves, justice, logic, sanity, LIFE, the rabid authoritarianism of their supposedly-democratic governments have been forced to heel.
It is time to make the Davos dogs of dictatorial delusions back down.
Will you join me?
Do you have a hardline?
What will you do when the masses comply again?
What do you think?
RANT: On Theatrical Masks