Of masks and men; the weird
religion of COVID masks
The Aspen Beat,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
7/13/2021 8:58:32 AM
Daily COVID deaths and new cases are down to pre-pandemic levels in America. Even the CDC says masks are no longer required for vaccinated people. Heck, even school teachers are returning to the classrooms – sans masks – now that their demands for more money and less work have been met.
Weirdly, however, many people are still wearing masks. In fact, I often see mask wearers driving around alone in their cars. What’s up with that?
A little historical context is necessary. Dr. Fauci originally told us that masks were not effective. It turned out that he never really believed that. He was lying
Reply 1 - Posted by:
NamVet70 7/13/2021 9:08:40 AM (No. 844117)
You proudly announce you were vaccinated as part of the Pfizer drug trial. Are you really sure you were vaccinated? I thought drug trials were double blind in that some of the participants get the vaccine and some get a shot that is not the vaccine, perhaps only saline. If so you may have not been vaccinated at all.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Big Bopper 7/13/2021 9:18:46 AM (No. 844128)
Number 1: The author didn't say he'd been vaccinated in the Pfizer clinical study. He said only that he'd volunteered for the study.
In any event, Pfizer unblinded the study in January, and told each participant whether he had received the vaccine or a placebo.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mean Gene 7/13/2021 9:19:41 AM (No. 844130)
Here, in Utah, they're not even pushing vaccinations during doctor visits.
I asked my doctor if she had treatment for sick people.
She said, no.
Only hospitals have treatments for those sick enough with covid!
So, naturally, all symptomatic covid cases are now hospitalizations, too.
They don't even have to lie on their paperwork.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JackBurton 7/13/2021 9:31:17 AM (No. 844141)
I had covid. Not as bad as the last case of flu that I had but suitably icky and so I got tested (positive for covid.) Then I got tested a month later for the antibodies. Yup. Got 'em, too.
But I also got the shots. Worst case--that it might kill me-- had the silver lining that I wouldn't have to live thru a biden (*) administration. But after being out of it for about 36 hours after each shot, I'm OK. And I'm 70... Why get the shot? Because the world I live in is stupid. They DON'T 'follow the science'. Everywhere I go, there are signs saying 'If you're vaccinated, you don't have to wear a mask.' NOT "if you're vaccinated OR have antibodies...."
I'm in Ann Arbor, Mi. Land of the sheep. In stores, most people STILL wear masks.
I, proudly, don't.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 7/13/2021 9:41:17 AM (No. 844153)
Last week, at a fast food restaurant we watched a man put his mask on before ordering. He was alone, in his car. The stupid is strong in Seattle.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 7/13/2021 9:46:55 AM (No. 844158)
I've never viewed the masks as a religious artifact. I've considereded them to be a sexual fetish.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Axeman 7/13/2021 10:06:51 AM (No. 844183)
Religion is a system of beliefs by faith which is used as a basis for compelling a set of behaviors.
What is it called when I don't have faith in the beliefs but I am forced into the behavior?
A young person or one with antibodies is more at risk from the shot than they are from the virus. Why take the chance?
In most cities there are cameras with facial recognition that record the time and place of every face they recognize. Driving with a face mask blocks these but the license plate is still recorded.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rather Read 7/13/2021 10:06:53 AM (No. 844184)
I'm 70 and I got the vaccine. I was never afraid of covid since my family is blessed with good strong disease avoiding genes. The only person in my family who got it was my daughter and she had one day of mildly icky feelings and that's it. Since I work in a university, I am surrounded by frightened people. Even though they are almost all vaccinated a lot of them are just sure that there's a 'rona virus out there and they will get it. I get so tired of it all. Do they expect to live forever?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/13/2021 10:32:12 AM (No. 844224)
Around here the members of the tribe that you see most often wearing masks are Black folks. Who either have been scared away from being inoculated by racist propaganda telling them that the vaccines have somehow been engineered by “White Supremacists” to kill them, or through leftist and socialist Democrat propaganda telling them that they should continue to wear masks in public even though it has been proven the the masks do not protect them from COVID that they are most apt to contract by close contact with others at home.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Laotzu 7/13/2021 11:03:29 AM (No. 844265)
I think masks appeal to people's subjective self-perception of ugliness. They're the moo-moo of facial garb.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
farmwife 7/13/2021 11:22:17 AM (No. 844295)
At this point, masks aren't about disease. They are a 'see what a good person I am" banner.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 7/13/2021 11:28:28 AM (No. 844307)
Am I the only one to see how today’s behavior on mask-wearing imitates Dr.Suess’s book The Sneetches? It was a story written to combat racism but has taken new meaning with the Left’s response to virtue-signaling mask-wearing.
For those unfamiliar with the story, The Sneetches features two groups of Sneetches, ones with stars on their bellies and ones without. The Star-bellied Sneetches felt superior and refused to talk to the plain bellied Sneetches. All that changed when a man appeared with a machine that put stars on bellies. The Star-bellies Sneetches couldn’t handle being the same so they went to a machine that removed stars and then the race was on. Eventually you could no longer tell who was an original star-bellied Sneetches and who hadn’t had “stars on thar’s”. The behavior of the Left so very much imitates the “Star-bellied Sneetches” featured in the story. They just can’t be like us. Eew.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 7/13/2021 12:15:21 PM (No. 844361)
He starts off fine. Masks don't really do very much. Fauci is a liar. A mask can stop droplets from a sneeze....to some extent, sure. Stop a viral particle? Some, never all. YOU wearing a mask might possibly protect ME a bit, but ME wearing a mask does nearly zero to protect ME.
But, Beaton goes totally off the rails into loony tunes territory very quickly.
When a "conservative" writer writes something derisive like "They believed that COVID was a hoax ginned up by the likes of Bill Gates to implant microchips in us in order to monitor our thoughts." I just tune out.
Being insulted with baloney like this by a writer who pretends to be a conservative moves Mr. Beaton, to my "on probation" list. Many other "conservative writers" have proven that they are not really conservative in the last 4 or 5 years. The list is too long to repeat here.
It is a hard fact that these mRNA 'vaccines' use a previously untested, totally novel technology, completely unlike all previous vaccines ever made.
It is a fact that more than 9,000 people have died immediately after getting their vaccination, and there have been thousands of other serious health problems like miscarriages, strokes, serious blood clotting, heart infections, heart damage and more.
These aren't some conspiracy theories, that information is from the Dept of Health and Human Services' own VAERS medical database, and the total numbers of adverse events are almost certainly much higher since the database is voluntary.
Derision and sarcasm from people about the very real concerns about the safety of these novel, minimally tested mRNA shots is not a way to inform or persuade. You stepped in it, Mr. Beaton.
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"Weird" is right. I wonder what people will think about it 50 years from now.