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Just don't mask. I live in CA and in an extremely mask-nazi area and I don't, and I rarely get pushback. People are tired of this, and no one's really getting paid to enforce it. It's fine to put a cute message on, I get it, but you are still COMPLYING. It's like being the guy at the office with full sleeve tattoos--oooh you rebel, you, but you still work in a freaking OFFICE. That being said, I understand needing medical care and being forced to comply so you can get it. But in optional situations, I say go for it, you may be surprised at the lack of pushback.

I don't say this to hector but rather so I can share a few moments of how easy it has been.

1) At my laundromat, where the owner yelled at me vigorously once for not masking. I tried to find a better laundromat, but there is none cleaner, so I went in again, unmasked. While my clothes are drying I go to A Large Grocery Store, unmasked, and buy some groceries. Back at the 'mat, the owner says "I think I just saw you at A Large Grocery Store." I said yup, that was me. He now says nothing, and I have since seen TWO other NAKED FACES doing laundry there. Strength in numbers, folks.

2) At a smaller grocery store, I said to myself "I'll just shop for as long as I can without one..." Got to checkout and the cashier said wow, I can see your face. We had a conversation about how masks don't really work. She never asked me to put one on.

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I always wore my fake mask on my chin when shopping but yesterday at the grocery store it stayed in my pocket. I was the only person free-faced (I'm in the giant sheep farm called Ontario) and the only person who said anything was the cashier who shrugged when I pleasantly told her I did not wear one.

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I'm kicking myself for not creating a line of masks with protest words like "LUNACY" written boldly across the face.

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I have a friend in Southern CA who wears/wore a mask saying PLACEBO. He's a linguist that comes from a family of Cuba immigrants,

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same… except mine was “remember when we were human?”

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When I lived in the PNW, I would occasionally see a brave soul wearing one that read, "My Governor is an Idiot."

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I wear one to the doctor labeled FIGHT MEDICAL TYRANNY. Doctor loves it. He still won't prescribe preventatives or treatments for CV.

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He'd probably lose his job, if not his license.

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I decided to write PROPAGANDA across my mask a few weeks back. I was nervous to wear it but did so anyway and it’s been fine. Next I need to just not wear it! It’s amazing how scared I am to do that! Here in liberal Canada. I worry about getting the shop owners in trouble…it’s horrible the conundrum we are in.

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That’s awesome you wore it anyways…I’ve been wanting to do that for so long but haven’t gotten the nerve(fellow Canadian)…you just inspired me…I will. With the message ‘masks don’t work’

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Yes!!! Do it!! No one has even said anything nasty to me. Only one person wanted to talk about it (Shoppers cashier) and she was like “yeah masks don’t work and now they’re making us wear two of them”. Most people just give me a second look and I sure hope I make them think!!

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I'm currently being punished for wanting to stand up for my rights. My wife has been giving me the silent treatment because in one of the few remaining places in Alabama that still requires masks, this is where she chooses to buy glasses. We've also had a few arguments about policy and the effectiveness of the tyranny which really changed my view of her when she decided to marginalize me because I don't work in health care like she does and so I don't see the people she sees struggling to breathe (on a vent without any other treatments besides the Rem, which she also thinks works "when given to the right patients who will respond to it" {very similar to "it would have been worse if they were unvaxxed"}). She must discount that I worked through 2020 as a deputy sheriff, INSIDE the county jail no less, and that we both caught it and recovered together.

She knew my position going in and that I had in fact been willing previously to "wear the disguise" (of a believer) to get basic services, but this time she didn't ask, and so when the little girl behind the counter asked me to wait in the car, I didn't argue or make a scene, I just left. She never sent me a text to ask me to come back in with a mask from the car to help her pick the frames she wanted and which I actually expected her to do after getting the exam.

She just came back to the car pissed at me because I wouldn't be bullied into doing something I don't want to do. It's been five days now and even though we are talking again, I haven't heard an "I love you" nor touched except for when I have ambushed her with a hug since. She just lost a close family member (also a healthcare worker and Triple jabbed) to "covid" (who was stubborn enough to just stay at home and suffer even though she was in her early 70s, and never took our or her sister's advice to contact the Frontline doctors to get an at home treatment of Hyd or Ivr). When she was admitted to the hospital, my wife actually said that it would have been worse if she was unvaxxed... And blew up at me then for asking whether she had been vaxxed. (This was "The most insulting thing you've ever said to me or my family". Later that night she sadly died. Overwhelmed by bloodclots...

So now I'm here and pretty despondent. I don't have anyone to actually lean on IRL so I'm venting here and am just wondering what is happening in the world today...My wife is no modern left leaning liberal. She's such a study of history, one of her favorite past times is binge watching documentaries about Hitler and the Nazis. Yet here is a lady that is asking me to drop my principles and just comply. (I'm also a military retiree so this is definitely not natural.)

What is happening to people? And sure, I'll take any advice on my situation...

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I am so sorry. I personally think you did the right thing. It sounds as though you handled the situation graciously, not killing the messenger or trying to make your wife leave with you.

I cannot imagine why she would expect you to do something against your principles. Maybe she feels guilty for not being able to save her family member and is taking it out on you. The only way you can ever know her thought process for sure is to ask her.

My husband is vaxed and wears an N95 mask in high-density places, but he has terminal cancer. We have friends and family who are horrified that I am not vaxed and will not wear a mask, as though I am going to kill him. We both got covid and recovered just fine. His vaxed self had worse symptoms than my unvaxed self, and he had it first and gave it to me, yet no one was horrified on my behalf, go figure. To his credit, he has never once asked me to either get the shots or to wear a mask, and he doesn't ask me to go places where the management mandates masks or vaxes for their staff, knowing that it is against my principles. For my part, I have never given him a hard time for making the choices that he made, either.

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You might grow a pair and start acting like a man instead of like a whipped poltroon.

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Sadly, for many at this point it's sort of like waiting for the junkie to hit rock bottom before they decide they actually want help. Until they decide they want to question things, they won't, and they will hate you for making them. My only advice is to be patient but firm. You're already recovered. There's no need to play along with the pandemic theater. Surely shopping for glasses isn't more dangerous than other things you do maskless? If she's not asking questions after losing a triple-jabbed family member, maybe she won't ask until this is all over and the 'experts' sound the all-clear.

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If your wife has recently lost a close family member, she's going to be distraught and not entirely herself. I only ever lost one close family member and that was decades ago, but I clearly remember not being myself for several weeks. Giver her time.

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That is my current tactic, but I fear that if relief does not come soon, we'll just drift further apart. I realize that I'm really easy to blame for all of this, but she's not the fighter, I am. That's what makes us complementary. But if she wants me to not stand up for her rights, then we're both weaker... She's been conditioned to think I'm being selfish for this, and of course, I won't be able to break that spell... Sadly, eventually, it seems, I'll have to admit that this is unsustainable.

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My heart goes out to you. It is amazing that seemingly intelligent people have fallen for this so completely.

As she works in healthcare then I suspect your options to awaken her are very limited, but maybe is she was willing to view the two senate hearings by Ron Johnson, the videos by Byram Bridle or Charles Hoffe, or even the Bret Weinstein videos with Steve Kirsch and Robert Malone, she might see where you are coming from.

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That's what is so odd. She knows that masks don't work, even in surgery she admits that they're just to protect against blood and other fluids being squirted on them during a procedure. She realizes that the lock downs were useless except to allow us to get to our jobs faster. She did at first take up for Cuomo of all people for the nursing home policy because she still believed the government at the time. She realizes that the establishment is hiding effective treatment from us but doesn't want to criticize the hospital for neglecting those treatments. The more I think about it, the more it seems that she just wants to live in her own little bubble where everything is rainbows and she'll be left alone to be happy if she just doesn't think about it. I don't have an answer to that if she doesn't want to drop out of society and live with me somewhere in the mountains of Idaho or something...

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Dr Mattias Desmet says it’s mass formation psychosis. Not to be insulting or anything - you have my highest regards. There’s also cognitive dissonance at play as well. You know what I mean. You’re an informed guy. Some people just have the inability to see this for what it is - at their core they cannot see what is happening because they cannot accept what is truly happening, so they live in that “bubble” as you describe.

My wife’s family is this way. We’re both detail-oriented researchers and maybe just wired different than her family. All are vaxxed except one of her twin sisters. I hate to say it but once people have internally chosen what to believe it’s a hard row to hoe to get them to see anything else.

I think I’d agree with one person’s take - binge watch Dr Peter McCullough and Dr Robert Malone and Senator Ron Johnson’s senate vaccine trials. My own mother is a nurse and thinks the vents and rem are the way to treat it too, so I can sympathize with you. I think all the videos and info I’ve fed her just ticked her off. Because she’s a nurse you know. And knows so much more than me, so how dare I question her. And she changed my diaper of course, so there’s no talking to her.

Best wishes my friend.

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Maybe she is just mentally overwhelmed and has to simplify things in her head.

I suspect we can all relate to that at times.

The figures behind this evil should hang for what they've done to people.

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Sorry for the run on sentences, I blame stream of consciousness..

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Amen! I cannot conceive of a parent tolerating this child abuse. My kids are grown, but there is a precisely zero percent chance anyone would have forced them to breathe their own air all day. I won't and neither would they.

There is still a whole lot of "You're not the boss of me" in me. And "Make me." None of these people are allowed to run my life and I would have never allowed them to abuse my kids that way.

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I think I experience "mom privilege" with the whole masking thing as I've never been asked to mask up. My kids were once lagging way behind me, though, and they reported that a crabby lady told them to put on their masks, which somehow she had the impression existed. ("Dears, that wasn't a crabby lady. That was a Karen, and I hope you told her to put on her sunglasses, because she might get cataracts, or her diaper, because she might sneeze.")

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I agree.... but are you going to employ or feed me when I cannot feed my elderly parents who do not look to me for support financially at this moment but might if SS tanks?

These choices are what many of us low income individuals face.

Unfortunately I completely agree but i do not have a base of people who support me.

Not saying I won’t and PCR is about to be a hill I’m willing to die on soon but I must face the consequences of my actions.

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Laura, we desperately need people to work here in Tennessee. I don't know your situation, but if you are able to move, do it! You will be welcomed with open arms and treated with kindness.

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Wow, what a kind offer. I am praying about my next move. God keeps nudging my heart to stay for now. My 91 year old (almost one more year) parents are still mostly self taking care of amazingly (and vac and covid free!!!!!!) but I don’t think it’ll be more than 6-12 months before one of them may need more care. I must consider them and their needs. I can’t move them. I think it’d kill dad. He loves it here.

I also think I can make a difference. Right where I am.

But one day I would like to work for one of these courageous doctors or maybe Steve Kirsch. Or Rand Paul.

My church homes are here too.

Unfortunately this narrative may make me force the issue sooner than later. I refuse to consider testing beyond 3 more months. That’s a weird deadline and not sure it’ll fly. I thought they valued me but probably not enough for that.

What’s weird is I’m the last non-jabbed, non infected person in my office (although who knows I could have had a mild case without even knowing considering how my immune system seems quite good).

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Sadly the only choice is to stand up now or sink deeper into the murk of tyranny. And the struggle only gets harder the deeper you go.

I'm not sure exactly what your situation is - but I know tons of places in free states that are hiring. I know I sure wouldn't want to live hoping that King Inslee lets me go to work today.

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If PCR not voluntarily abandoned by the docs I work for I will resist. It is simple and it is not. But thanks for the verbal support it is appreciated. It’s the 92 yr old parents that make it difficult

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Remaining Blue Staters are way behind the power curve, those who could moved to Red States, leaving fewer people with sense to fight this tyranny.

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Sadly, true. We left Oregon for Tennessee last June and have never looked back. I fought the good fight for twenty years and finally just wore out.

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Something else amusing about that. I had a party at my house for my mom's 89th birthday. I had family in from Boston and Seattle, Cedar Rapids and Oklahoma City, Santa Barbara and New York City, and a dozen cities in between. As expected, the lefties showed up with masks. All but one of them shed the muzzle within seconds of getting in the door, but one (from Seattle naturally) wore hers for about an hour.

Then it came off. It stayed off for the next two days as we ate, talked, watched old home movies, etc. I am sure it went back on when they arrived at the airport and has stayed on since then. But I wonder sometimes if she looks back on her time in free America with some level of yearning.

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This is what's so baffling to me. Don't these people realize that millions and millions of Americans have no covid rules at all, with no worse consequences? Surely before you put your kids in a mask, you make sure it's actually necessary, right? But nope, these people just delegate their decision-making to the TV.

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A big problem, and one that's not going to get any better the further we go. Wait too long and you will have lost all the allies who would have stood by you if you had stood up sooner.

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I also worry our new neighbors will forget what brought them to their new homes at a not-too-distant election time.

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Jacques Ellul wrote a very good book on how educated people are the most susceptible to propaganda. The U.S. Army War College writes: the individual never is considered as an individual, but always in terms of what he has in common with others, such as his motivations, his feelings, or his myths. He is reduced to an average; and, except for a small percentage, action based on averages will be effectual.” (p. 7) This explanation appears timeless. However, technology now allows us ever-greater market segmentation, and therefore ever-smaller groups can be targeted with disinformation based on their shared views. Mass movements arise from the connection of motivated people with like-minded others. Strengthening those connections and making the connected group even more like-minded can be accomplished through amplifying information that reinforces common views and minimizing exposure to information that effectively challenges shared views. Amplifying supportive voices while minimizing opposing ones occurs in what we now call “filter bubbles.”

Regarding “filter bubbles,” Ellul wrote “Propaganda tends to make the individual live in a separate world; he must not have outside points of reference.” (p. 17). Ellul went on to say and modern research supports) that “Those who read the press of their group and listen to the radio of their group are constantly reinforced in their allegiance.”(p. 213) Social and traditional media information outlets on radio, television, and the internet allow us to self-select what information we even see, much less accept. To avoid the cognitive dissonance of contrary opinions, we can deny ourselves outside points of reference, and thereby reinforce our own allegiances.

We are victims of Covid propaganda. No one dares bell the cat. Take truckers protesting. So what. Governments do not need truckers. People are going to starve until the non-human driven vehicles hit the roads and this no accident. Unless large numbers of fully propagandized "subjects" rise in armed insurrection nothing changes.

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4 those that don't dare to risk the maskfree confrontation, u still can make sure that ur mask doesn't signal aggreement by writing some anti-mask (anti-coronatarian) slogan on it like "useless muzzle" or "masks don't work" or "CO2 poisoner" or ...

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Or you could get a face tattoo, which is a passive, nonviolent way to avoid most confrontation.

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One of my friends has one that says this (not sure if it's the same exact one)

https://www.amazon.com/Useless-Reusable-Washable-Bandanas-Outdoor/dp/B08TC38ZZJ

Personally I prefer something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Anon-Nation-Fawkes-Vinyl-Sticker/dp/B01AN3GHQ4/?th=1

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Pretty sure antifa has dibs on that second one.

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In the UK, only secondary school kids were ever made to wear masks. They should never have been made to either but at least the youngest were spared it unlike your photo.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/

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........and statistically speaking, nothing happened to those maskless kids.

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