Guest Post by Eric Peters
It’s a simple ask:
How does a “mask” prevent a person who isn’t sick from distributing a sickness he does not have? A full Moon Suit connected to a closed-circuit oxygen rebreather system would not “stop the spread” if the “spreader” hasn’t got anything to spread.
The Coronamonomaniac’s answer, of course, is that the “mask” protects against the possibility that you might be sick and not realize it – i.e., “asymptomatic” – and their fear of this possibility – no matter how unlikely it may be in fact – obliges you to wear the “mask.”
One might ask, in that case, whether the possibility that someone might be a thief obliges the suspected person to keep their hands in plain sight at all times – so as to assuage the fear of theft?
If not – and most reasonable people would probably agree that it does not – then why must a person who isn’t sick be made to pretend – eternally – he is sick because other people are afraid he might be?
The answer to that should be obvious: He shouldn’t have to pretend he is sick. Ever. Nor be made to appear to agree with the tenets of the Sickness Cult, which the wearing of the “mask” implies he does.
There is something very wrong with this business of insisting that people alter their behavior in degrading ways – as by walking around in fear of other people, avoiding proximity, wearing a silly “mask” over their faces – because some people are afraid.
Why doesn’t their fear oblige them to deal with it rather than others to accommodate it?
Without regard to the impact on others of their insisted-on accommodations?
The mental disease of Coronamonomania requires that everything – and everyone – be subordinated without limit to the unlimited fear some people have of a sickness that by any fact-based metric poses far less threat of actual harm to almost everyone than the impositions being insisted upon.
This is a sound working definition of mass hysteria, an extremely dangerous phenomenon when allowed to run amok.
The question becomes – how to stop its spread?
The difficulty is the natural – and reasonable – aversion most people have for conflict. Their desire to not make others feel bad, if they can avoid it. We say nice things about people’s bad haircuts – or don’t say anything about them at all. We refrain from criticism we know will not be well-received.
We seek to live – and let live.
This decent instinct is being used against decency – by making good people feel bad about not deferring to the rabidized fear of others.
This is a hobble which must be overcome and the way to overcome it is to realize you are not a bad person for not submitting to emotional blackmail. To being made to actually say that a bad haircut is the best one you’ve ever seen and to agree with viewpoints you disagree with.
You know you are not sick. Therefore, decline to pretend you are sick.
If someone else dreads the possibility that you might be sick, that is their problem to deal with. It is not your obligation to accommodate and if they insist it is, then it is time to tell them no.
Firmly.
Just as you would tell a screaming, foot-stomping child attempting to make you bend to his wishes no. That it’s not going work. Scream and stomp your feet to your heart’s content. We’re not buying that toy to get you to calm down.
And we’re not going to wear a “mask” to get you to calm down, either.
There will of course be screaming and foot-stomping. There already has been. And it is precisely because of the deference of good people to this noxious foot-stomping and screaming that the emotional blackmail for more “masking” has been increasing.
We endure what we tolerate.
Let’s stop tolerating it.
There is, unfortunately, no other way to deal with foot-stomping, screaming emotional blackmail. Let them scream and stomp. Let them see that their emotional blackmail no longer has power over us; that our willingness to put up with it and give in to it at any cost is over.
When someone says, “we’re all in this together” – point out that “we” aren’t in this together. Don’t presume to speak for me.
When someone says, “stay safe” – tell them you’d rather stay free. Walk confidently into stores that aren’t enforcing “masking” but depending on emotional blackmail to get you to put one on.
If you own a business, let your customers know you don’t expect them to “mask” and maybe even consider placing a sign to that effect on your front door. This may draw down the Sickness Polizei upon you but so be it. Put them in the position of having to charge you with a violation of law – as opposed to “not following guidelines” – and place the onus on the courts to prove you guilty under the law.
Stop backing up. Stop giving in to get along.
This whole show is utterly dependent on acquiescence to emotional blackmail. It can be halted and dialed back if people decide to stop giving in to it for the sake of not making the blackmailers upset.
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Huh. Kind of the same dynamic of how to deal with a toxic narcissist.
Never saw the parallel before. Thanks! =D
It is clearly conditioning for the VAXedcines. If you think this is mass hysteria wait for that.
If Al Sharpton thinks anyone who disagrees with someone of a different skin color is a racist, then when he disagrees with a person that is not black, doesn’t that make him a racist?
No.
Only Whites are racists. And we should all be ashamed of ourselves for it. /sarc off
Nigga, please?
It’s a cult plain and simple. Jim Jones didn’t break out the cyanide kool aid on day one. It’s a slow, but steady rise in control measures.
Cults all have the same things in common:
High control over behavior (no gather, always mask, can’t go out after a certain time, no singing, no laughing, no weddings, no funeral services)
Isolation (stay home, don’t leave your house, walk your dog, or do anything outside)
Fear-based ideology (If you don’t, you’ll get sick or make someone else sick)
redemption only through the cult (follow our ideology and you’ll be safe, vaccine only will work, no HCQ or zinc or Vitamin C)
Revered, God-like leaders who’s word is infallible (Fauci, Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsome)
Extreme distrust and shunning of anyone who is not part of the cult or who attempts to reason with cult members (assaulting, shaming, doxxing, of anyone who does not follow cult ideology, non-ideology followers, even though they may be doctors or scientists they are “conspiracy theorists or white supremacists”, high-ranking cult members use their power to shut dissenters down (Twitter bans, FB bans)
High-ranking cult members receive special treatment or favors (Nancy Pelosi’s haircut, Newsome at the Birthday party, Cuomo not wearing a mask in his apartment building)
Apocalyptic end-game scenario if the teachings of the cult are not followed, i.e. death to all non-cult members and disobedient cult members (Deaths will rise exponentially, people will die, if only you wore the mask none of this would be happening right now)
Cult members may engage in any behavior they wish to as long as it’s to further the agenda of the cult (rioting, burning, looting, stealing an election)
Sometimes the simple and elegant “No.” with a follow up ” Drop dead.” response is enough to cause the tantrum to stop dead in its tracks.
And the there is the indecent response*:
Just be prepared to back it up , should push come to shove, and when the constabulary arrive, NEVER resist arrest if that is where it is going- plus say nothing to the police. Get your Miranda Warning and shut the fuck up!
Wait for judge and court.
*WARNING – Not for those of a delicate disposition*
How do you know you don’t have it? Thus the masks.
Watching the Lolbertardians throw a months-long temper tantrum, like the sociopathic infants they are, over being forced to act in a responsible manner has been sort of entertaining, but it’s also why they belong in secure mental hospitals.
Dear Anon,
Trying to stop a virus from passing through a cloth mask (either coming or going), is akin to trying to stop a mosquito with a chain link fence. The sociopaths in this equation are NOT those who question the efficacy of mask-wearing, but those who plaintively insist that we all engage in a practice that does absolutely nothing to inhibit the spread of a virus THAT DOES NOT KILL OVER 99% OF THOSE INFECTED!!
You should be fine though, since your respiratory system is well protected by the fact that your head is vacuum-sealed in your rectal cavity. If you ever do pull your head out of your ass, please do put on a mask since it may indeed protect the rest of us from your vacuous exhalations.
You must have a different understanding of the word responsibility than most of us.
For myself I find it irresponsible to encourage someone’s mania or emotional disorder. If someone is afraid of confined spaces, do you think it’s a good idea to try and force them into a closet for their own good?
People have been intentionally frightened by a naturally occurring human phenomenon that cannot be eradicated and will exist long after our species is extinct. It makes no sense for us to live in a state of perpetual war footing against something we have lived with since the dawn of mankind.
And yet here you are, pretending you’re doing some kind of public service.
If you want to wear a mask when you leave the house, you are free to do so. No one is proposing making it mandatory to unmask. How are you unable to grasp the difference between the two?
Don’t force me to do something I believe to be a form of pointless conformity in order to achieve an end that will never occur and I won’t force you to give up your extraordinary popular delusion.
You idiot.
When you have to be tested to know you have contracted a virus that has a 99.82% survival rate what in the fuck are you worried about. You should probably be fearful of fucking spoons. Why? Because spoons kill more fucking humans in a hear than covid fuckin 19 you fucking idiot
All good advice Eric thank you. I try to encourage others to be ‘assertive’ and what that means as are most people here on TBP, otherwise they wouldn’t be here at all. the Snowflakes et al wouldn’t survive if they invoke the comments that I have observed, and rightly so – they can go wear their masks elsewhere if it makes them feel that they ‘belong’, which I guess is the motivation to comply with crazy rules.
Our rulers know this and use it to control and prosper as parasites on the back of the productive masses. Here in Britain the ruling class have got this down to a tee having had centuries of empire exploiting the less fortunate.
I made this simple observation in March. Why should I hide because of your fear? The fearful should be hiding.