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Here is an interesting take on mask mandates to consider. I have mixed feelings over this issue. I do wear them where required to but do find them to be isolating and dehumanizing.
Those of us who are unsettled by mask mandates often cite the loss of freedoms as the reason behind our concerns, but that doesn’t even begin to tell the whole story. Mask mandates are not just dehumanizing in the context of today’s society, preventing us from reading the faces of others. There is yet another level of dehumanization. Getting “used to” masks suggests something more spiritually sinister: a Borg-like facelessness that isolates and atomizes every one of us.
There are, of course, several obvious reasons to object to mask mandates. First, those who push for them have made it very easy to be skeptical of their claims that any old mask is essential for public safety. A mask alone in the car? On the beach in the sun and salt air? On the walk into a restaurant but not after you’re seated?
Many blue-state governors and mayors such as Nashville’s John Cooper, whom businesses have accused of covering up declining COVID-19 case numbers to keep the lockdowns going, can’t hide the fact that they are social engineers at heart. For them, the Wuhan virus is an irresistible mechanism for social control.
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Hi Michael, I suppose that is true, similar to how seat belts are a way of keeping you protected from most physical injuries or from being thrown from your car in the event of a collision. Conversely, masks are also a way in which the public (both ourselves and others) is partially protected from a highly contagious virus as a means of keeping the number of infections down to a reasonable number that our hospitals and health care workers can realistically care for until an effective vaccine can be produced and administered to society. If Covid19 is real, which it is, then this is not a control measure to isolate society but rather a control measure to partially protect society and the limited medical resources that are available (i.e. keeping the curve down). So this particular perspective can either be a good thing or a bad thing dependent upon if one does not subscribe to the reality of Covid19 but views the masks as part of a ploy to condition society IAW a one world global agenda. I find it amazing how, dependent upon your perspective, it can change something that is intended for good into something that is viewed as bad and conversely, something that is intended as bad into something that is viewed as good. I wonder if China has this problem with perspectives?
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Hi Bruce, thanks for the insight. I changed the title on this to a question rather than a statement. As I mentioned in my opening, I have mixed feelings over this issue. I do wear them where required to but do find them to be isolating and dehumanizing.
It is interesting that in the U.S., the latest surveys and data indicate that 90% are wearing masks in public. It seems a reasonable question that if people are wearing masks, what is causing the rapid spread? There are countries that put in place mandatory mask provisions very early and then saw huge spikes in cases. This seems to be an open scientific discussion and doesn’t seem to be a settled issue one way or another. There is reasonable scientific and epidemiological reasoning on both sides.
As many of us have discovered in life, good intentions don’t always lead to good results. Sometimes the opposite is true.
I don’t know about China but I sure don’t want to live there.
Again, I wear my mask. Most people I know do as well.
Blessings from mighty King Jesus.
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