This is an excerpt from “Unmasked Outlaw, Part Two: The Context.” You are invited to read the whole column, as well as “Unmasked Outlaw, Part One: The Gym,” at:
The COVID mask has come to play different roles for different people. Here are some of those roles listed below. And since anonymity and identity are connected to masks, I would encourage all to consider where anonymity and identity fit into each of these various roles. And, especially given that the COVID mask was never effective in preventing the spread of the virus, and that the “experts” knew that, and a lot else, to what degree do harm, responsibility, and dehumanization fit into the mandated, pervasive wearing of nose-and-mouth masks that do not fulfill the purpose for which they were mandated?
Roles of the Wuhan COVID mask:
Shield: Some people actually do believe masks of any description are effective and can stop the spread of Wuhan COVID. Whether this is based on propaganda from Faucists and their servile media and politicians, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, or mass formation psychosis, or misguided compassion, it may well be sincere.
Litmus Test: In this role the mask serves to identify and separate those who will from those who will not comply with arbitrary infringements of their rights and liberties. Furthermore it serves to identify how far each individual will allow those infringements to progress. Such knowledge has long assisted totalitarians in discovering who would prove a useful tool in, or a threat to, their takeovers.
Virtue signal: This feeds the elitism so necessary to the woke-left sheep who flaunt their self-righteous compliance of a kind that has long served as stepping stone for and foundation of tyranny. “The ineffective mask I wear shows that I follow the demigod Fauci and am doing what is best for society, and if you do not do so also, you are the very scum of the earth and deserve whatever the Faucists can do to you, including ostracism; verbal and physical violence; forced injection of an experimental, ineffective, and potentially dangerous vaccine; and incarceration in a concentration camp. As for execution, I’m thinking about it.”
Badge: In this role the mask can promote petty tattler to dangerous informer, and we have fought wars, hot and cold, against regimes that do so. “This mask elevates me to the immediate tyranny I have long desired and deserved, empowering me to surveil my neighbors to identify any who do not obey the unreasoned dictate to wear one, and to accuse them, and to seek and enjoy their punishment.”
Leash: “Even at a distance, I can control other people by just a tug on this leash of accusation: ‘That person is not wearing a mask!’ By doing so, I can have them forced to wear the mask I want them to wear, have their freedom otherwise infringed, or have them removed from my presence, even arrested in some places.”
Cover: “They’re making us wear a mask. I can’t believe it. We can wear a mask all day and no one is going to question it. And from behind this mask I can say things I could not say without it, and do things too, like maybe join in hundreds of BLM and Antifa riots around the country and burn cars and buses and buildings and vandalize and loot and even kill people, and Democrats like Vice President Kamala Harris will even bail me out.”
Talisman: “This mask, however porous, bacteria-ridden, asphyxiating, or misapplied, gives me a supernatural protection against anything that could make me sick and against the unclean (especially of thought) who will not kowtow to Fauci and Big Pharma, corporate medicine, and their partners and minions in the government and media.”
Security blanket: “With this mask on, I know that I am comfy within my cocoon, warm and safe from all the assaults of daily life in a dangerous world.”
Nuisance: “I’ve got a life to live with real concerns like my wife and kids and aging parents. I am not political, not lookin’ for any trouble, have no idea what these clowns who want to dictate how we live are up to at present. I’ve been workin’ hard all day and just want to pick up my groceries and beer, and if I have to put this thing on my face–whether I get a new one out of the box or pull one off the floor of the car where it has been lyin’ for the past six months–I’ll do it, just to keep these yahoos off my back and out of my life. Hey honey, can you grab that mask off the console there, yeah, the one you were just wearin’ to run into the store; the pump won’t read my card, so I need it to go in and pay for the gas.”
Muzzle: “Wearing this mask, except possibly to prevent the spread of large droplets when I am sneezing or coughing, will do nothing to curtail the spread of the Wuhan COVID, and is unhealthy. So, the only reason someone would want me to wear this thing, whether it be national officials or the neighbors who walk into the street to pass me on the sidewalk, is to silence and control me. And that control includes stereotyping, branding, stigmatizing, ostracizing, and criminalizing. Furthermore, besides causing respiratory problems including disease, masks contribute to anxiety, arrested development, distrust, misunderstanding, paranoia, antisocial behavior, mental illness, ultimately to dehumanization: the great generator, employment, and achievement of tyrants.”
Apparently mask mandates are beginning to fall as more and more arrive at where many of us have been since the beginning and thereby pull the rug out from under Democrat Party tyranny. What secret identities will emerge and how much changed from what they were before the masks? How much damage has been done by those who have driven this madness to achieve their diabolical ends? How has the mask contributed to that damage in filling the various roles listed above? What will happen to those whose reaction to the masks, and the vaccines, have identified them as the muzzled? And as the truth becomes better known, how many will recognize how they were manipulated and learn from it so as to reject the manipulators next time around?
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