We Won’t Be Masked Again
Issues & Insights,
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Original Article
Posted By: RockyTCB,
8/23/2023 6:01:02 AM
A summer surge of COVID-19 has some wondering aloud if we should return to mask mandates. For now, the official line, despite the media effort to rekindle coronavirus hysteria, is that it’s unlikely. But we heard that before, in 2020, right before public health officials dropped their mask tyranny on us. If they do it again, we have an obligation to say no.
Are we calling for civil disobedience? Are we suggesting that Americans resist orders that are not laws but are instead decrees issued by despots? Absolutely, and without reservation.
Masks are dehumanizing.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 8/23/2023 6:30:58 AM (No. 1540517)
Just another flu season. Relax
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 8/23/2023 6:34:08 AM (No. 1540521)
Not even a "flu." Summer cold perhaps. Figured they'd try to derail the 2024 election. Sorry @$$wipes, you shot your load in 2020.
31 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rather Read 8/23/2023 6:34:32 AM (No. 1540522)
There's at least one university and one film studio that have re-instated mask mandates. I hope and pray they won't do it where I work. I don't know if I can stand it again.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 8/23/2023 6:35:36 AM (No. 1540523)
We are not like Red China...not yet. No masks, no mas! No Faucism!
20 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/23/2023 6:57:29 AM (No. 1540532)
I love masks, it makes it easy to find the 28% that still think President Potatoe-Head is doing a good job.
33 people like this.
Only the lowest IQ people (Democrats) think that those masks EVER had any effect on the contagion.
However, the average American is not very bright.
18 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Namma 8/23/2023 7:39:38 AM (No. 1540559)
Mandate masks for Americans. But open the borders and let anyone into the country.
Make sense to you? Shut the borders first. Second deport all illegals. ALL OF THEM! Three. Stop dictating.
35 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
msjena 8/23/2023 7:43:50 AM (No. 1540563)
Unfortunately, we will be if private businesses go along with the mandates.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/23/2023 7:47:11 AM (No. 1540564)
If things keep going the way they are voluntary mask wearers will be hunted with dogs!
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/23/2023 7:54:53 AM (No. 1540568)
Masks are useless, medically speaking. Social distancing is also stupid. It only ensures tyrants that there slaves can't plot against them in whispers and gives an excuse for absentee voting that can be rigged.
1 citizen, 1 vote, with a stamp of indelible ink prominently displayed is the only fair way to vote.
24 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 8/23/2023 8:01:41 AM (No. 1540575)
Queue The Who, "Won't Get Fooled Again".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 8/23/2023 8:15:46 AM (No. 1540586)
Never Again! Ever!
15 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/23/2023 8:29:45 AM (No. 1540595)
Someone should make parody of the 1970's song, "Won't Get Fooled Again," by, The Who using this topic.
10 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
readtheBook 8/23/2023 8:46:33 AM (No. 1540604)
I just sent an email to several people I know. I think this is VERY important.
What is the scientific basis for masking to prevent transmission of respiratory viruses?
Just a few days ago I did an online search regarding this question. I used two different search engines -- Duck Duck Go, and Brave. Both searches failed to find a single article (in the first 5 to 6 pages of results) concluding that masking is ineffective. This in splite of my having encountered numerous articles to this effect over the past 3 years. For some reason I failed to note these articles in my ongoing list of "politically incorrect" articles.
Today there is an article posted on Issues and Insights that neatly presents strong evidence against the effectiveness of masking. I really believe the strategy of mainstream media and various Google based search engines is to report news in a "glancing" way (short mention when maybe at the top of an news cycle) and then soon afterwards to bury all record ot contrary views.
Please take a careful look at the following information. Perhaps you might want to at least copy the links to this information or even maybe print it out for a hardcopy.
Otherwise, it looks like it might just "go down the memory hole" in a short period of time.
https://issuesinsights.com/2023/08/23/we-wont-be-masked-again/
https://www.city-journal.org/article/do-masks-work
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/2/8/23591132/cdc-exaggerated-evidence-supporting-mask-mandates-column-jacob-sullum
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 8/23/2023 9:10:28 AM (No. 1540629)
Masks don't work. They never worked. The overwhelming majority of masks didn't work. There will be some weak-minded people with no common sense who will wear the mask again. There are some people who never gave up wearing a mask. I guess they have their reasons, but if Covid is one of them, then they're just stupid and no amount of info will stop them. The government can mandate all they want; it's not going to work. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
15 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
EQKimball 8/23/2023 9:41:09 AM (No. 1540650)
If anyone asks why I am not wearing a mask, the answer is simple. I am following the science.
14 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 8/23/2023 9:43:29 AM (No. 1540652)
#3, it's your body, don't wear it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 8/23/2023 9:45:38 AM (No. 1540656)
Don't listen to the media and the Dim's (1 in the same) they are enemies of the people.
7 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/23/2023 9:50:45 AM (No. 1540663)
Local community center recently had a COVID outbreak and required masks. Almost everyone left. Mask requirement was gone in less than two weeks. People don't want to wear masks. If they are at risk, they will isolate instead. Can see our tyranny (can't call it a government anymore) using this to push mail in ballots again.
10 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Jerseyden 8/23/2023 10:24:45 AM (No. 1540691)
In my opinion this is just a warmup to see how many people comply. If they get enough dems then the ‘Climate Crisis’ mantra will pushed out to really screw the citizens with all kinds of mandates.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2023 10:47:40 AM (No. 1540715)
Re, #1, no, flu season starts when the sunlight gets short and natural Vitamin D3 levels begin to drop. Not flu season.
I doubt it's actually happening as my starting position.
NOT going to ever wear a mask again. Hard NO! I endlessly was at odds with the mask nazies at medical offices, just refused their "required" mask wearing. Only once did it get to the office supervisor coming into an exam room and ordering me to take the mask in her hand or leave. I took the mask, put it on, and she left, and I took it off. Doc came in, did the exam, had a discussion, and I walked out when done, all sans mask.
Since then my position has hardened considerably.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/23/2023 10:49:49 AM (No. 1540719)
The commies will get the grocery stores on board to enforce their mask mandates. People will put the mask on walking into the store, and take it off walking out of the store.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Ragman73 8/23/2023 11:10:18 AM (No. 1540742)
When you meet someone that advocates for masks you can be sure of several things:
The individual(s) has/have no background in real science or statistics. The more you try to reason with these people the more emotional and irrational they will become. Their sense of moral superiority will be clear. Trying to reason with them is an exercise in "spitting into the wind". They will view you as being totally ignorant and uncaring.
9 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 8/23/2023 11:16:31 AM (No. 1540746)
Like using a chain link fence to stop mosquitoes.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/23/2023 11:31:25 AM (No. 1540764)
Watch Peter Doocy destroy Karine Jean Pierre over mask mandates. I don't know how old it is, but relevant again.Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rTuQ5TdCE8
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If my church agrees to close, or my grocery store demands I wear a mask....I will be looking for other options.
8 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/23/2023 11:56:29 AM (No. 1540788)
The vast majority of people will not comply so I hope "authorities" push harder this time around and give us an excuse to call their bluff. The Karens in the country are in for a shock.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
kono 8/23/2023 11:57:08 AM (No. 1540789)
Some people and places never got off the mask-mandate bandwagon.
The world's hesitant rebound of freedom this year may have just been a typical "dead cat bounce" thing.
3 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2023 12:16:32 PM (No. 1540805)
Re #8, no, not really. I frequently shopped in stores with "masks required" signs without a mask, never once was challenged. Just call their bluff.
One Colorado Walmart did have a line, and a big guy outside checking, ONE time, and we looked and walked away, got the same merchandise elsewhere, no masks. Next time we went to that town, no door guard, and we just ignored their 'requirements'.
Just refuse their "mandate". You'll quickly find that 99% are unwilling to do the slightest thing to make you wear a mask. Hell, most of them won't stop a shoplifter.
You can bet they won't stop an unmasked shopper with actual money.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
pmcclure 8/23/2023 2:01:58 PM (No. 1540896)
The simple facts are that masks had no discernible effect on COVID, and more people that were "vaccinated" died than those who abstained.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 8/23/2023 2:17:33 PM (No. 1540917)
I’m with #26.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
broken01 8/24/2023 11:45:23 AM (No. 1541463)
This past weekend I binged watched season one of CSI Miami. The opening theme song for the show is from The Who titled "Won't Get Fooled Again. Change the second and third words to Ever and Mask and you have how I feel about this.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
zoidberg 8/24/2023 11:50:58 AM (No. 1541466)
For some people, the mask is a security blanket. I saw a masked woman walking alone outside the other day. What good does she think it's doing?
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