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Stockholm Syndrome over Mask Wearing

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Posted By: Magnante, 6/1/2021 8:48:39 AM

Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon where “hostages or abuse victims bond with their captors and abusers.” This bonding can occur over days, weeks, or months of captivity and abuse. Rather than being terrorized by their captors, hostages sympathize with them, developing positive feelings, sharing common goals and causes, and essentially falling in love with their captors. (snip) A modern-day version of the Stockholm Syndrome is playing out after over a year of COVID captivity. Americans have been held hostage by medical czars like Dr Anthony Fauci, totalitarian governors named Cuomo, Newsom, Whitmer, Murphy, and Wolf, and big media, including cable news giants CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: fhancock 6/1/2021 8:56:23 AM (No. 802509)
Folks who continue to wear a mask that is made of three pieces of Kleenex and two rubber bands, which will will not protect them, are either terminally afraid or terminally stupid ...permanently breathing regurgitated spittle and carbon dioxide is not my idea of protecting myself
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Kate318 6/1/2021 9:04:07 AM (No. 802516)
While on vacation this week—in a city whose mask mandate just expired—I saw a woman in a long black dress, with a big, Breakfast at Tiffany’s hat and sunglasses, and she was wearing a mask. She looked unearthly and non-human, like an alien visiting here that had to wear sunglasses and a mask to protect her from Earth’s atmosphere. It was very bizarre.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: sanspeur 6/1/2021 9:20:41 AM (No. 802533)
i saw a man wearing a knitted mask ! His wife had made it and all the folks in the crafty store were envious of it .It was knit on very large needles and as holey as a fish net . he wore it proudly .I wonder if he succumbed to the woo-flu later ? I think, in most cases , the masks are an outward sign of inner iq .
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Reply 4 - Posted by: LesUNo 6/1/2021 9:23:57 AM (No. 802537)
While out and about in North and South Carolina this past weekend I noticed more mask wearing than expected. There was an interesting demographic. Masks were primarily worn by white middle aged women and minorities. They continue to distance and were wary of those of us sans masks. It was sad to see such unnecessary fear as they tried to maneuver around the rest of us. This has been a test of willing compliance and there is a segment of the populace that has failed miserably.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MDConservative 6/1/2021 9:28:00 AM (No. 802539)
Yesterday, at a cookout, a woman in a mask sighed, "I wish we could get back to normal." She was one of two in a group of about 15 wearing masks. I told her it was really easy to do so...take off the mask. I got a glare in return. Some will now wear masks to their graves. I imagine cities will look like Beijing, where half or more wear masks "for pollution".
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Reply 6 - Posted by: panther361 6/1/2021 9:29:54 AM (No. 802543)
Did anyone else notice as far back as several years, the Chinese populace, non long term American citizens but recent arrivals from China, were wearing masks? They were used to wearing them in their country and continued after gaining entry to the US. I thought it odd but but figured it's just what they do. After the last year and a half it, appears to have been a harbinger of what was to come. I also have had a bad feeling the CCP were not the only ones involved.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: msjena 6/1/2021 9:29:57 AM (No. 802544)
It's more like a religious observance. For example, even a moderate Muslim woman I know won't be seen without a head covering. There is something in human nature of some people at least who like being told they have to perform certain rituals. Oppressive governments know how to exploit this--things like the Nazi salute or swastika armbands, the Mao-collared clothing during the so-called cultural revolution, the "Red" army and the color red generally in the Soviet era.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Cindiana 6/1/2021 9:35:59 AM (No. 802551)
The dipwad down the block is still masked up as he walks his tiny dog. The guy is huge, probably played football back in his youth. I'm quite sure the dog is embarrassed to be seen with him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Paperpuncher 6/1/2021 9:38:44 AM (No. 802556)
After the mandate was lifted in Ohio I still occasionally see people wearing masks while driving a car by themselves. I would say about four out of five of them seem to be 30ish pajama boys. It is just weird. Who or what do they think they are protecting while by themselves in a car? Morons!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: HotRod 6/1/2021 9:55:18 AM (No. 802572)
Masks are evidence of psychological conditioning by the government and media. The hapless people don't even know what has happened to them. They are conditioned to panic if they don't wear masks.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Clinger 6/1/2021 9:59:22 AM (No. 802577)
I went to Home Depot on Saturday and couldn't figure out if they were requiring masks or not. Everybody I saw at first was masked up so I put mine on as I approached the door looking for any posting defining their policy. Then after entering I figured screw it what's the worst that can happen, they ask me to put one on? So off it went. Then I noticed a couple of other people sans face diaper. Finally!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: clayusmcret 6/1/2021 10:17:49 AM (No. 802591)
If Americans ever wondered how the German people could have gone willingly into the Nazi era, they can now look in the mirror and get a good idea how easily a people can be subjugated.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: skacmar 6/1/2021 10:28:41 AM (No. 802599)
Mask wearing is like the new religion where people show how pious and caring they are. Their virtue signaling only shows that they are scared little children afraid to give up their security blankets which offer little to no protection.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: mc squared 6/1/2021 10:46:38 AM (No. 802624)
All excellent posts. It's frightening that decades after the Milgram experiment, people will still subjugate themselves to an imagined authority.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Corndoggies 6/1/2021 12:09:12 PM (No. 802690)
Dunkin Donuts lost me as a customer forever as I couldn’t make a purchase without a mask. It was a blessing in disguise as we discovered Nothing but Bundt cakes. Their sign said masks “encouraged”. Just bought my second order without a mask. And I told them so.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: fishbone 6/1/2021 12:11:03 PM (No. 802693)
I never understood the Stockholm Syndrome ... I would be getting angrier an angrier at my captors as time went on. And, that's just what I'm experiencing right now with these idiotic masks. I do NOT sympathize or empathize with my self appointed overlords.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: DVC 6/1/2021 12:37:09 PM (No. 802719)
Sounds like a good explanation. But folks have come to believe in their Magical Piece of Cloth. It's protected them this far. Kinda like the guy who carried around an elephant rifle in NYC. People asked why he would do such a thing. "To keep away the wild elephants" was the answer. To which the exasperated people would say, "That's ridiculous, there are no wild elephants in NYC." "See how well it works!" Just like the Magic Pieces of Cloth. See how well they work!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: aripeny 6/1/2021 2:52:40 PM (No. 802861)
Mask free and never going back!
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Zarin 6/1/2021 11:08:33 PM (No. 803205)
So the man named in the article has worn an N95 mask & cloth mask & goggles for close to 14 months. He still caught the covid. He got vaccinated - even tho 'he likely had immunity from having had the covid earlier. And now he insists that he will continue to wear the masks & goggles. I wonder if he is autistic? Autistic people obsess over stuff like that. As to the knitted mask #3 noted - his mask was as good as anyone else's in 'stopping' the virus.
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