Good Afternoon,
I love New Mexico, but I HATE the mask mandate from Santa Fe. I read the “Faucian Bargain” by Steve Deace and Todd Erzen and learned that the practical effectiveness of masks to protect anyone from the Wuhan Covid-19 virus is nil. Even N95 masks, if used without the proper protocols are not effective. So masks do not protect the wearer from aerosol viruses.
Masks dehumanize and demean human beings. I miss seeing the faces of people. I miss the unique identity of each person. I feel at a disadvantage when communicating because I can’t read the expression of the person speaking to me.
Major retail stores have become the enforcers of tyrannical government policies.
If we all said, “Enough! I will not comply with this delusional policy. I am taking my Liberty back. Liberty is more important than safety. Living is not risk free. Government officials and policies cannot guarantee the safety of anyone. I want to be left alone.”
Masks spread fear. FEAR NOT! Trust in God. Don’t make government a false god. Whether a citizen wears a mask or not is the decision of the citizen.
These policies are unnecessary and unenforceable if we all said, “NO, I will not comply!” By the way, my health status is no one’s business. Civil disobedience is in order.
I reject this false mask religion. It is not based on facts and gives a false sense of security. Please read the Faucian Bargain and this article from the Washington Times,
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7 replies on “No Mask Required”
I am also fed up with the mandates from Santa Fe. I also read the Faucian Bargain — kind of rambling, but an easy read none the less.
I have mild hearing loss, and I often rely on lip reading to fill in the gaps. Well, that has been denied me for nearly two years.
You are correct that “[c]ivil disobedience is in order”; however, I find the general apathy and fearfulness of the New Mexican public to be very discouraging.
It’s not only that masks don’t protect you, they don’t protect other people from you either.
I read a recent study that showed how even a properly worn and adjusted mask lets 95% of aerosol droplets escape. I happen to have a full beard so in my case it’s 100%.
Wearing a cloth or paper mask to prevent the passage of a virus into or out of the mask is like relying on a chain link fence to keep out mosquitos. The scale is very nearly identical.
When you exhale while wearing a mask there is positive pressure inside the mask. The volumetric holding capacity of the mask is far exceeded by the volume of air you expel from your lungs. The mask is thereby completely evacuated on every exhalation.
When you inhale while wearing a mask the reverse applies and the mask is fully loaded almost instantly, the rest of what you breathe in is exterior air with any and all aerosol components of the ambient air going directly to your lungs.
If these things were not so you’d die because a mask is not a sealed, self-contained breathing apparatus. Like scuba gear or a hazmat suit.
A full protection hazmat suit maintains positive inside pressure at all times with fully filtered air. That’s why they look like balloons, they’re inflated. This positive pressure insures that any leakage from the suit is one way, outward. Nothing can get in because positive pressure is blowing it out. The ankles and wrists are taped not to create a hermetic seal, a full seal is impossible with such a suit. To get that you have to upgrade to a full bio-containment system. They’re taped to limit outward airflow so that the positive pressure inside the suit is effective and not diminished by an avoidable leak from a larger gap. So even a full protection hazmat suit is no guarantee that whatever you might have won’t get to anyone else.
Just an FYI, if you see people wearing that kind of gear, they don’t give a flying rat about you, they’re only protecting themselves.
None of the stated goals of mask wearing is valid in the least. The more this information is disseminated the sooner people will stop wearing something that does nothing useful at all.
Well, people who care to access information that is not curated through Democrat party media will learn the truth. These other cultists will continue wearing the mask because it has little to do with safety and everything to do with wearing the uniform of their religion.
Masking, where it’s optional and not coerced, was actually a brilliant tactical move by the Left.
It allows people to wear a signal on the most prominent otherwise normally unclad portion of their anatomy that loudly, clearly and obviously says …
“I’m one of the dipshits* and if you get a mask you can be a dipshit too. If you don’t wear a mask, I don’t like you.”
Hilariously this also has the effect when encountering another masked dipshit — Of hiding their knowing, saccharin smiles to each other. Denying them nonverbally signalling “Hi, dipshit, I’m a dipshit just like you. We’re Komrades! Aren’t we just the most wonderful dispshits ever?!?!”
And of course there can be no doubt that they are dipshits because if they were not they would know what is clear to anyone with two or more brain cells to keep each other company already knows. If if they do know that then their single brain cell dying of loneliness refuses to acknowledge and act on it. Classic, textbook dipshittery.
If you think about it, it’s pretty nice of them to label themselves for the rest of us. It’s kind of like requiring a leper to cry “Unclean, unclean” while walking the street. Except that the leper is humiliated and the dipshits just think they’re showing the world what wonderful people they are. That is further proof of their dipshittery.
To the tune of “Streets of Laredo” —
As I walked out in the streets of Brandonia,
As I walked out in Brandonia one day,
I spied a dumb dipshit all masked up and frightened,
All masked up and frightened and dumb as red clay.
I see by your mask that you are a dipshit,
I see by your mask you are a dipshit too,
We see by our masks that we are both dipshits,
If you get a mask you can be a dipshit too.
(* Pardon my “french” but sometimes a less crude, more refined expression just doesn’t do justice to the situation. This is one of those times. I try to refrain from colorful language unless colorful language is the only thing that will convey what I’m trying to say. I can see no advantage to elevating these dipshits to a polite level by using a descriptive noun that is more urbane.)
Gotta admit I’m at a point where trying not to sneer at those I encounter who are wearing masks is taking just about all the self-control I possess. Most of them are young 20 to 30 somethings, the least seriously affected by this flu next to children. That’s why you know it isn’t about safety but all about signaling and you’re right, I do appreciate their blatant display that they are to be avoided.
Your satire of Streets of Laredo is hilarious, mostly because it accurately identifies the dipshits among us.
LOL, I’m glad you weren’t offended. I didn’t think you would be or I would have just refrained from saying anything.
You don’t seem like the type that gets the vapors over a properly applied, well earned epithet.
While it’s true that we can know something about people from what they say and how they say it, you can never know someone well over text posted on the internet. I’m glad I made the right call on that.
I don’t bother hiding that sneer you mentioned.
I don’t “mad dog” people like that, nothing so obvious and nothing to get me in trouble but I go out of my way to be sure they see it.
I try to project the “I just stepped in something that came out of the back end of an animal” look. Revulsion and disgust rather than anger and aggression. I’m mocking them, not threatening them. Even so …
I’m a big “biker looking” guy with long hair and a full beard so I enjoy the look of fear in their eyes. Even though I know they’re de facto ridiculously easy to frighten and it’s a little bit like kicking a puppy, I can’t help myself. I’m an asshole, I know it and admit it.
Just an unrelated aside — I don’t have any tattoos to go with the biker look. I got drunk one time and went to a tattoo parlor with a couple other Marines. When I saw the blood and pain involved I decided I’d have to be a lot more drunk to do that. Strangely enough, I never got around to getting quite that drunk.
There’s also the fact that if I were to get a tattoo it would look like my current avatar with “USMC” under the graphic. A guy I know, I would hardly call him a “friend”, stole my idea and beat me to it. So I didn’t want to be a copy cat. I’m just too much of an originalist individual to run around inked with something someone else got first.
As it happened, I did some things later wherein a tattoo would not have been a good thing to sport so it all worked out unintentionally, inadvertently well in the end.
It’s been my experience that life is often like that.
Ha ha No vapors over well applied salty language. I’ve been known to cuss like a sailor when my ire has been raised, stringing together profanity that sounds like a grammatically perfect sentence. Usually aimed at something that caused me to stub my toe or smack my elbow. Oh, and my computer is the recipient of a fair amount of profanity, too.
I was raised to regard tattoos as tawdry and low-class, especially on women. Product of my time, I suppose. Same with piercings. Obviously, I sport no tattoos and the only piercings I have are one in each earlobe, which I got well into my late adult years. No cosmetic procedures or additions, either. Just a “what you see is what you get” kinda person.
So much of our culture has sunk to the gutter. You and I, and a majority of us here on BW.Com remember the days when cursing and nudity on t.v. was not acceptable, almost to the point of silliness – married couples depicted in twin beds sort of thing. Modesty was a signal of refinement. Proper attire de rigueur. I miss those days. I bet you do, too. Oh well, I just act like they still exist as far as my personal comportment is concerned.