Guest Post by Robert Wright
News of Texas hitting zero Covid deaths despite its alleged Neanderthalism when it dropped its mandated masking in March is helping to bring down mask mandates, which finally are disappearing left and right. They never made sense and were even illegal, an idea with slim empirical support that only got worse as desperate people argued that adding more masks — essentially multiplying zeroes by zeroes — would amount to something positive. “The” science has been in for over a year but for some reason government policymakers have just now made it clear that if you want to avoid Covid (and for most people there is no need to), the key behavior is to not loiter inside with lots of strangers.
That’s right, the social distancing floor arrows and stand here stickers didn’t really matter and the plexiglass was pretty useless unless it went floor to ceiling and wall to wall. And all that hand sanitizer killed a lot of nasties but didn’t appreciably slow Covid. If Walfart, Tarjay, and other big box stores really cared about their customers, they would have stayed open 24-7, kept all their checkout lanes open all the time, moved essentials from the back to the front, and done everything else in their power to get customers in and out fast while protecting the most vulnerable, along the lines of the Great Barrington Declaration, with special hours or stores.
Instead, Big Retail followed dubious government “science,” restricted its hours, forced everyone to squeeze through the same entrance and exit, and made them linger in the checkout line for far too long. But (almost) everyone thought such modifications were okay because the store required “face coverings” and then masks, mostly cheap plastic things that made some people feel like they were doing “their part.” They certainly were playing a part, that of unwitting dupes who lulled others into one of the most dangerous states of mind imaginable, a false sense of security.
Remnants of the old regime remain, like a school district in Florida where teachers allegedly still pull down their masks to yell at students for drinking water. The last holdouts, besides those with monopoly power like teachers’ unions, are folks suffering from neuroticisms like pathogen disgust and obsessive-compulsive disorder. They cling to mandates the way a wet mask clings to human faces to convince themselves that they can control that which cannot be controlled. It is sad but thankfully they are in the minority now in most states and I hope they can get the help they need and be better for the experience. Queue Nietzsche cliche.
I knew the mask consensus was crumbling when I began to notice masks, even the better ones, showing up in all sorts of places where one rarely sees garbage anymore, much less (allegedly) life-saving medical devices strewn about. Yet there they were, on boardwalks and parking lots, even on fairly remote mountainsides. I began snapping pics of them when convenient, in part just to bring attention to their existence. They are literally polluting the planet as well as people’s minds. According to a recent study, humans across the globe now throw away 3 million face masks per minute.
The unedited photographs below (note the occasional shoes and digits) portray over two dozen of those castaways. They expose not just the fact that the wearers valued their masks so little that they carelessly lost or tossed them but also the fact that nobody, myself included, wanted to dispose of these dead masks properly. Some may have feared their presumably Covid-encrusted exteriors while others may have been disgusted that anyone would lose or toss something so valuable.
I, for one, wanted the discards to strangle baby birds to expose the hypocrisy and hubris of the central planning, authoritarian types “leading” the country straight into yet another steaming pile of unintended consequences. If only people had listened to me and live virus inoculated volunteers starting in March 2020 many human and baby bird lives would have been saved. Instead we suffered a hellish year that we will continue paying for, in myriad ways large and small, long into the future.
According to one study, it will take 450 years for some of these masks to degrade. That’s a lot of dead baby birds and a lot of wasted energy, almost for naught. Great job, Homo personatus!
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Apparently, the five-second rule applies to masks.
Don’t forget that this chart includes all people who died with the WuHuFlu, like those who were in automobile accidents and those with stage 4 cancer.
Yes, and like my 76 year old cousin who became upset at the hospital when he was told he could not visit with his wife of 58 years who fractured her ankle . He had a witnessed heart attack in the ER lobby in front of an orthopedist and did not make it. His death certificate reads Sars-Cov-2 as his cause of death.
We finally got it corrected.
Used masks technically are supposed to be treated like biohazard and put in the appropriate biohazard containers. Which only hospitals and other medical care settings have.
So a these discarded masks are now medical waste.
Not a problem throwing medical waste hither and yon with nary a care in the world.
Same with used needles discarded by the millions on the streets of certain large cities. Needles which are very dangerous, which could very much give you hepatitis or HIV, or staph
But make sure your face is masked as you tip toe through that wasteland which also includes piles of human feces.
Yup. Makes perfect sense.
Pup – I have decided that I will not longer visit large cities where there are needles and feces on the streets and sidewalks. I saw San Fransicko, Shitattle and Portapotty, OR when they were fairly clean and a nice place to visit. The same with NYC, Chiraq, Boston & the District of Corruption. I also visited Detroilet just as the blight was setting in and the snow covered all of the dead bodies and decay.
I was in Seattle about 25 years ago. It was a nice place to visit then. Never been back and have to desire to.
Common sense is sorely lacking for the vast majority of people, and it seems to be only getting worse.
In the spirit of the Old West, a time when bandanas were masks for robbing banks and no decent gunslinger was ever left without his bandana….or voice….
Thumbs up just for the names!
Mask harder. Vote harder. Hold breath harder. Whiter shade of pale rider’s comin’.
Brute force trial & error has an esteemed place at the table. 10,000 ways not to make a light bulb (despite all the messy attribution fuzz around Edison).
But brute force error without the trial seems more popular. The Ox Bow Incident.
But what’s an incident that keeps going, never ends? An accident, of biology, maybe. An accelerant, “loved” by arsonists – we didn’t start the fire, they say – maybe.
Went into natural grocers the other day. That place is a lefty haven o’ dagger-eyed health-seekers. Despite mandate with destiny being lifted by the leaders, I was the only maskless one in there.
In costco recently it was a little better, quite a few free-breathers, but heard some guy, projecting from the pulpit-stage good & loud, saying “if they want to get sick…” talking about the effrontery of frontless faces.
But…moved around a lot growing up. 23 moves in 18 years. All over “the country.” Quote locks to belie the supposed heterogeneity of the place.
Everywhere I went it was the same thing: this is how we do it here. Better step to the right, or left, or walk on your hands, orororo we can make it harrrrd, boy ♪♫♪.
“The People” ain’t never not been sheeple. Never. Not even back when the wool was more like steel.
I worry more about those that make it to the ocean and are ingested by the inhabitants. I used to scuba dive and have picked up at least 3 dozen “disposable” diapers from the ocean floor. Some were in a very remote area of the Bahamas and at least 20 miles from any inhabited islands. Me thinks we will soon see a much worse problem with the face diapers in our waters.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/28/more-than-1-5b-masks-will-pollute-oceans-this-year-report/
“With each mask weighing three to four grams, the situation could lead to 6,800-plus tons of plastic pollution that “will take as long as 450 years to break down,” according to the report.”
I told wife today that wearing a mask e masc(k) ulates me and I will not. Got stink eye from the grey haired guy walking by wearing a mask. The place we were going had removed mask sign on door but staff and lots of customers still wore them.
Mask mandates (and many other aspects of modern American ‘society’) always remind me of a line from the song Synhronicity II by The Police:
“Every single meeting with his so-called superior,
is a humiliating kick in the crotch.”
“According to one study, it will take 450 years for some of these masks to degrade.”
Seriously who conducted that study, Copernicus?
JC from Pittsburg has started a daily livestream trying to debate and discuss concerns with vaccinating children. He is hoping to inspire a PAUSE in the fervor while the research community reviews the viral biology research. The “real” science behind the science.
Outside of Lowe’s the other day, I noticed the buckets they’ve added to the cart racks to collect masks. A pink-flowery mask was on the ground beneath the bucket. It looked, at first glance, like a pair of child’s underwear, which would be equally gross.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av-embeds/world-asia-56322369/vpid/p098pl1w
BBC Vid:
Masks Polluting Coral Reefs
And this is another reason I DON’T wear one of those filthy things….
How long till we see the video of a sea turtle with a mask strap entangled around its face??
These things are discarded everywhere…. as a human race we have failed in more than 1 way.