Last winter few people in my area were masking. I use it as a barometer of how off he cliff we are getting. It happened that I was driving my kids somewhere and I passed a grocery store. The year before you’d watch people reach into their purses and hunt around for some dutiful adornment. Or grab it from its lamp post type fixture from the car mirror as they exited the car. You’d see the shoppers with one hanging around their necks like a set of pearls, ready to hike it up in the face of hostility, or the proboscis shopper, with the chin covered and the nose out. Of course there were the mask aggressors, who would talk to you with flashing angry eyes at your mask-less face. I can’t hear you. could you take your mask off?
Well on this particular biting cold winter day I saw a woman EXIT the grocery store, mask-less. She got a whiff of the cold wind on her cheeks and she paused with her groceries to lunge her hand into her purse. I laughed as she donned the mask outside the store like a ready - made scarf.
In my view for the most of society it was ‘a purpose’. Maybe the fastest point between your car and the apple aisle. Maybe for conformity.
Early on though for some it was indication of SCREW YOU. I will not wear it. It came a point for me that the line in the sand had been crossed and I too defied the world with my face. I don’t recall the exact moment. I do recall discussing it with my neighbours, and I said no I wouldn’t mask in the store. I liked these neighbours. they moved away. We were sitting having a drink. So in close proximity. No one was wearing a mask. But they were horrified. You have to do it for the workers. For the tellers. So they aren’t uncomfortable. I said no, I don’t.
In that sense the masking was ritualistic, even for the adherents. They didn't believe it was necessary, or even protection. But it was ‘social’. The same people that want you to wear a mask might not want Muslims to wear the hijab.
Most people try not to think of the uncomfortable times.
Image from Daily Mail
My aunt came over to visit a lot. She was a mask aficionado, but took hers off to kiss and hug us. I didn’t mind or care to point it out. Sometimes for love you don’t say all you think and you take your kisses and hugs from the loved ones you have.
Maybe it was the absurdity of the rules that I threw my hands up. Mask while standing. unmask while sitting. it was nonsense. Like the air was different by altitude in restaurants. or the virus knew the rules and behaved accordingly.
But it was just as likely the images of our ‘elite’ mask-less around masked children. It does seem so wrong. So intrusive. And kind of bondage.
Or all the photos of VP Harris with her dutiful look (she is insulation from assassination. Is she as dumb as made out by the clips of her word salads? or is that protection for the President, from those who would otherwise attempt an assassination. I jest. But I don’t as well. She could be very bright and playing a role. Who knows). But she stands beside children in masks. It seems cruel and shows the inanity and inhumanity of the masking.
Image from amazon
Masking can be a form of control. In bondage for instance, it is the gimp that has to wear the mask.
Masks are certainly gag-worthy. My poor children sent to school wearing those spit incubators. They came back a horid mix of sweat, saliva and smell. Which adults had to wear them all day? children did.
The bacteria from the food and the running had to be horrible to inhale.
At one point our family made it to Florida. Made it as in halleluiah. We were waiting outside for our turn to play a round of tennis. A very nice democrat man in his sixties took interest in us as we were new. He sat down beside us to inform me and my children we should wear two masks. I wondered at the tan lines he would have. We were in beautiful sunny Florida after oppressive Canada. His masks were positioned so you could see both. They were contrasting in color so you would absolutely not think it was one mask. That’s nice I said. I changed the topic. I did enjoy our conversation about other topics, and found the masking conversation bemusing.
So is it a political badge. Is it a way of showing your adherence to a set of beliefs? political beliefs, for instance? If so that is a different function then the ‘stated’ purpose.
I still think it is subjugation. As in, I am important and mask-less, and you who must behave, comply, adhere, genuflect must mask. And you must mask to gain entry to legal establishments.
When we drove through the Us towards Florida we saw all kinds of signs saying different things based on the State. Mask if you were vaccinated. Mask if you weren’t. What were the customs or the ways to adhere to it. What we found most of the time as we exited the car to use the bathrooms in gas stations and fast food was that there would be a sign demanding one thing or the other and then inside NO ONE WAS WEARING MASKS.
We went to Washington on the way and showed the kids the sights. My friend who lives there, said you will not have to wear a mask anywhere. But there is one place you will have to bring your mask. It was the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian where we were headed. We were in packed elevators and hotel lobbies. No masks. but where children would gather, the masks had to go on. Like a trade. you get this candy if you mask. You get this food if you mask. you get this fun if you mask. you get. we give. you must. adhere. do it. train the kids.
So I got headstrong at some point. What I notice about our evolution is that there is so much judgement for what stage it is that you ‘become awake’, or to what ideas. There are many who are purists and insist their view point that they had at the very outset of the pandemic turned out to be right, and then therefore they must shun and ridicule others for their state of awakening. With all due respect to the idea of ‘purebloods’ turned out to be right where is either your compassion, or realism.
It is just more us vs them to insist all have to have the exact set of same ideas at the exact same time period. For instance it appears Brett Weinstein is in the process of waking up towards the WHO power grab. But he does not adhere to all the same ideas of the most awake. I personally do not care where he is on the journey of understanding there are globalist movements and architectures of power that have us in their sights. That the WHO pandemic treaty, or the WHO IHR amendments doesn’t respect freedom, personal autonomy, or sovereignty is what Brett warned us on the Tucker video. He is still putting his neck out there to say uncomfortable truths to power.
the rabbit hole is interesting. What I find is that many people who have understood the nature of the power grab with the pandemic from the outset, both say ‘wake up’ but then criticize people for their manner of waking up imperfectly. I think it has to do with forgetting what it was like, and what mental barriers there are to the understanding that the life you thought you understand is quite a bit different then the assumptions you were cajoled into understanding.
For me I see it differently. I see it like a court appearance. when I used to go to court, I could tell if my audience didn’t get my arguments. It was important to know what was working, what wasn’t. I don’t give up on my audience, I move to the next argument. The point is persuasion. And you could tell when the judge had that aha or agreement with you. And you knew for the most part when the judge had warmed up to you or even liked your presence and articulation. And you knew when you had failed as well. There are two sides to most stories.
The other part is pragmatic. I hear, well we are many they are few. Well that is only true if we don’t try to assume everyone has to think exactly like us. It is not a religion to understand the global transnational tropes that you are not allowed to disagree with come with a power structure and even an angle for profit. Partly what I dislike about the left right now is that requirement to adhere to DIE, CRT, or ESG. Its a religion, and I have my own already thankyou very much.
so why should we all have to agree with a set of truths on the ‘awake’ side. None-sense. For instance, someone who is a scientist who understands that the climate change is pure baloney, might have fallen for the vaccine heist. or vice versa. Someone who discovered vaccine injuries in their patients and loved ones might believe humans are responsible for climate change. Or perhaps you started seeing the rainbow used in ways that aligned with pharma but didn’t see that it also aligned with transhumanism and that race to align us with technology. Where the rights and medical infrastructure for transgender will be piggy backed for trans humanism. Trans rights are human rights. There is a Treadstone play underway.
but seeing how truth is controlled in one arena often leads to seeing it another. there is no one right way to arrive at truth.
What I do find, is that it can be traumatic to understand some of this. Just the bare notion that a government could know about the poor performance (effectiveness in not decree definition) and deathly consequences (safety not as a decree definition) and not remove the product from the marketplace, and double down with mandating boosters etc., might be too traumatic for some to cope with.
So I believe we need to have open arms in some way. to say to those discovering this for the first time, today or tomorrow or over many tomorrows, and have compassion for what they must be feeling. They will feel alone. they will feel betrayed, They may feel hopeless, or angry, or even afraid.
It is a bit like the battered wife syndrome. Or something similar maybe. Where a person refuse to believe something bad like their husband is cheating on them despite every evidence. Or they really believe a man who hits them can keep his promise when he says sorry and they believe every time that they won’t hit them next time.
When I see loved ones rolling up their sleeves despite any evidence (if they would only look available), I wonder if that is not it.
See here for instance
How can we resent them. Why should we be mad at others for believing, being gullible. It could be the fragility of their mental state. And when they finally get here. Why do we chastise them for falling for some of the most well-funded, all pervasive media plays of all time.
those on the other side of the paradigm are playing for keeps. We don’t really have time to chastise those who we should welcome or even comfort. That man with the two masks I enjoyed talking with. I hope for instance, that he woke up, burned those things, and didn’t need to bury someone he loved because of a misplaced belief in a public health service announcement.
Stacey Abrams with auto-mons. NY Post Image.
Masks as a symbol of Slavery?
https://rumble.com/v1ef9nd-masks-are-a-symbol-for-slavery-vera-sharav-holocaust-survivor.htm
The last thing I see the masks as, are a symbol of the censorship of our times. As in the speak no evil.
Image from pinterest
We have embodied the See no evil. Hear no evil and Speak no evil of the three little monkeys. The mask is symbolism of the imposed and controlled silence of our times.
Image from the Atlantic
Thanks for this. It rang the bells for me.
I think masks are fab for skiing and biking in extremely cold weather, and masks are great for venturing in to clean out a stinky, dusty attic (best use something professional for that), and masks are also dandy for Halloween parties. In a normal public situation, however, like grocery shopping, I go out of my way, a long way, to avoid anyone wearing a mask. I consider mask-wearers either up to no good and/or mentally ill and/ or very gullible, and/or possibly also actively sick with something contagious. I don't give a worm's fart on a nopal pad in a windstorm what they think, I'm not wearing one. I don't need to wear socks on my ears or a tuba in my hairdo, either.
Relatedly:
Stephen Petty, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Testifies Before the New Hampshire State Senate
From a clip of industrial hygienist Stephen Petty testifying before the New Hampshire State Senate Health and Human Services posted on YT. About 15 minutes total.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3dnkbKoj4A&t=61s
The clip is taken from from the over 4 hour long hearing that was lived- streamed on March 30, 2022, in which Stephen Petty appears at 2:17:34 .
You can find that original source here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZb3ND7Q1B8&t=0s
TRANSCRIPT - TWO EXCERPTS
00:18
STEPHEN PETTY: My name is Stephen Petty. I'm a certified industrial hygienist, certified safety professional, professional engineer. I've been working 45 years in the field of health and safety. I spent my entire life trying to protect workers and the public from toxins, I've sampled for anthrax, biotoxins, the whole list. I've been in over 400 cases named with respect to exposure control and exposure and PPE [personal protective equipment]. And most recently I testified in the state of Kentucky, and a result of my testimony the mask mandate was overturned statewide.
So let me introduce the topic of industrial hygiene. Industrial hygiene is not well understood by many. We have a lot of physicians talking about industrial hygiene, it's not their field. Industrial hygiene is the science and art devoted to anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control of environmental factors and stressors that can cause you to be sick, make you feel bad, or even kill you. And I've testified 400 times in those sorts of cases.
The problem is that we have a lot of physicians talking about things like that, and they be perfectly talented folks, but it's not their sandbox. When I'm in trials we have a physician that talks about the disease, and I talk about exposure and exposure control and PPE.
The last physician, that talked earlier, I'm here to show you that every statement he made is false.
1:42
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SECOND EXCERPT
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPTION, CONTINUED
(6:32) The problem is, you cannot seal a mask by definition. A mask that seals is a respirator.
(6:49) In industrial hygiene, we don't look at solutions that do a little bit of good, that might help 1% of the people. We have a requirement that if we're going to provide a solution that helps the public, it better have at least a 90% relative risk reduction.
How would you feel if I walked in and I said to asbestos workers, "Let's put you in a mask, it might save 1% of you from asbestosis, but the other 99% will get it." I think I would lose all my licenses.
And by the way, asbestos fiber on average is 50 times larger than a covid particle and we have very high end respirators, PAPRs, that are used to protect asbestos workers. And I'm certified in protecting asbestos workers.
So, why in the world would you take a 1% solution when you need 90% when we have solutions like ventilation destruction and filtration that do meet that 90% requirement from industrial hygiene?
The other thing you hear about all the time is on page 12, you see the top, let's move on to N-95s. As I just said, we wouldn't even use an N95 for asbestos workers. But here's a study by Shaw et al that shows even for N95 where you glue it onto a board, and that's where most of these mask studies were done, they literally glue the mask onto a mannequin or a board.
Now do you glue your mask on your face? Of course not. So what happens, when it's not, so if it's glued on, they say well it has 43% effectiveness. What if you put a gap on it? Three percent effectiveness. And that's the real world.
So about masks, on page 13. On January 2, 2022 Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner, on Face the Nation spilled the beans, he said basically masks don't work.
I've been putting real engineering controls in real schools for two years. You can imagine, as somebody who spent his whole life defending workers in toxic [?] trials and the public, how infuriating it is to see people propose solutions that cannot and do not work.
He admitted it.
We also had CDC file an admit on January 14 of 2022, well, these masks aren't very effective, so let's move to N95s. I said, no, no, no, no, let's move to engineering controls.
If you follow the CDC guidance, I said, what science changes its position 180 degrees in two years? Masks, no masks, masks, no masks. No science does that.
The other thing I want to point out is, on the bottom of page 15, and I wrote a 27 page letter to the CDC in February complaining about this, as well as to Fauci and the White House. Along with eight other industrial hygiene folks.
They say, well, we want to put children in N95s, and then they link you to the manufacturers' websites, including 3M. What does 3M say about N95s and children?
"NOT DESIGNATED TO BE USED BY CHILDREN."
And now also they say, well, as soon as you go to masks, you have got to start following respiratory protection standards which has all sorts of requirements. You can't just hand somebody an N95 and not incur a lot of liability if you don't ensure that they're fit-tested, that they're medically cleared to wear it, that they've been trained on how to wear it, and they've been trained on how to replace it.
So, on the bottom of page 16, we have industrial hygiene, as I said before, what we call the hierarchy of controls. Everybody agrees with this. The most effective hierarchy is engineering controls. The least effective would be personal protective equipment or PPE. And PPE for respiratory protection is respirators because you can seal respirators.
Now why are respirators on the bottom of the barrel for controlling hazards? Because they don't get worn right. You put somebody in, we know this from decades of doing this, you put a respirator on somebody for eight hours a day, they're going to break that seal. Guarantee it, it's not going to get worn right.
Well the interesting thing is, masks don't even fit in the hierarchy. They're below it. They're not even part of it.
Again, engineering controls is the solution.
Now what about damaged children? There's a lots and lots of data on this.
11:43
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Stephen Petty's podcast is Petty Podcast https://rumble.com/c/PettyPodcasts
He is founder of EES Group, Inc. http://eesgroupinc.us/about/
Well said! Well thought out and presented. You echo some of my sentiments re the ridicule and judgment coming from the “pure bloods” and those who hold themselves in the highest esteem and morally judge those of us who didn’t know the whole thing was a scam from the very start and accuse us of all sorts of personal failings. I’m personally sick of it and there’s many more like me I can assure you who now don’t even bother with these types of commenters on different Substacks because it’s a drain on our energy and we need to focus our energies on waking up others. As you point out not everyone is capable of acceptance of the WHOLE picture as it’s just too much evil to comprehend all at once, or they awaken to a certain aspect of the truth based on their professions, coworkers, maybe their friends, their own personal experiences etc. We are not all alike so why would everyone on the planet think the same ways or perceive things at the exact same time in the exact same way??? That’s not reality, that’s not human beings.