With the winter wave receding and the panic starting to be dialed down a little, the time is right for a massive pushback against the covid rules that have failed to stop every wave so far. We know that spring works every time, and now it’s just around the corner. Soon covid (and hopefully the surrounding panic) will be at seasonal lows, making it the perfect time to declare
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.")
Feb 1, 2022·edited Feb 1, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Yesssss!
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.
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.
I'm kicking myself for not creating a line of masks with protest words like "LUNACY" written boldly across the face.
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.
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...
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.
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.")
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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