Guest Post by Eric Peters
It is probably safe to assume that the people still wearing the “mask” are doing so for political and religious rather than health reasons.
As for example the woman in the picture accompanying this report. She recently appeared at a county board meeting in – of course – Portland, wearing more than just a “mask.” She was wearing a helmet. Like the one worn by astronauts, except she wasn’t going to the Moon.
She was making a statement. About her beliefs.
“Can you hear me ok?,” she asks. “I’m learning how to use this. Trying to avoid concussions and COVID.”
Oy and many veys.
Of a piece, the family I encountered at the supermarket yesterday. A mom and a dad and their three young kids – all wearing the symbol of their beliefs, the latter being as faithfully inculcated in the kids as the catechism learned by Catholic kids in the hope that, as adults, they will repeat it by rote.
Imagine the strength of belief one must have to wear a religious vestment outside of church.
But this is a secular religion. A political religion that has supplanted religion – giving meaning and expression to people who have abandoned traditional religion. Who see salvation in politics.
And we all know what those are.
It is probably a safe bet that not a single person still wearing a “mask” – and “masking” their kids – did not vote for the Biden Thing. Still supports the Biden Thing. Will never stop supporting the Biden Thing, no matter what the Thing does.
For the same reason that ardent Catholics will always support the Pope, no matter what he does. (Including “acceptance” of that which Christian doctrine says is morally unacceptable, such as active homosexuality.)
These defenders of the faith constitute a large percentage of the roughly 38 percent that still supports the Biden Thing – and always will.
Of course, it is not fundamentally Biden that these “masked” faithful are supporting; Biden is merely the aviator-glasses, face-planting avatar of that which they support. That being the political religion of Leftism.
The cardinal tenet of which is obedience to Leftism.
Of which, “COVID” was merely a symptom.
Once you understand this, you understand why the most aggressive “mask” enforcers were (and still are) doctors – of all people.
Or so one would think, if one did not understand.
The medical profession has become a very political one, probably because it became one when it was turned into another branch of government, by the government – but with the active complicity of the medical profession. The latter saw not just an opportunity to cash in on Obamacare but also something that has probably long been latent among the practitioners of this order:
The power to order people around.
“Doctor’s orders” has taken on a whole new meaning over the course of the past three years. A literal one. White coats have become a uniform in more than just the literal way. They have acquired some of the same power that inheres in other uniforms, such as those worn by various types of armed government workers (e.g., the “police” and “the military”) all of whom love to issue orders – and have the means at their disposal to ensure they are obeyed.
This is what Leftists crave, even when they are the ones being ordered around.
Of course, many Leftists crave the means to order others around. Especially those who do not agree with them. But it is the underlying sadomasochism that defines the Leftist – and the “mask” is how their belief manifests.
It is also how they can be identified – an important thing.
In prior times, when one saw a group of people with shaved heads wearing saffron robes, one knew it was time to cross the street, for the Hare Krishnas were on the prowl. Just the same as when a strange van pulls into your driveway and a pair of Jehova’s Witnesses step out of it.
Time to not answer the door.
The difference as regards these religious freaks is that they are into politics, too. They will not just go away if you don’t answer the door.
They vote.
And there are still a lot of them out there, just itching to do exactly that.
Anyone who thinks that “COVID” is over does not understand this. “COVID” being merely an expression of the underlying disease, which has by no means been cured. It is held in abeyance only – and probably not for much longer, either.
Keep in mind that the bishops and cardinals of this strange new faith – governors such as Whitmer in Michigan and Hochul in New York – were re-elected. The people you see still wearing “masks” voted for that. Because they believe in that.
Better believe it’s not gone away, either.
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I smelled this covid business was a manufactured boogy man in the beginning…
There is a new boogeyman generated every 6 or 7 years to keep us all fearful and glad the government is pounding our asses.
The letter that my company’s legal dept drafted, labeling me as an “essential worker” gave me, in my view at the time, a pass to go crappie fishing whenever I wanted, with very limited competition.
Once there was another guy in the fishing spot and we started talking.
I said to my son “do you you see any covid in the water?” He said no, and that guy started laughing. We spent another hour catching fish and remembering another time when we was kids and Vietnam was the boogyman.
Edit: Pls understand this son is autistic, and absolutely LOVES when I point out absurd things in life so many are oblivious to.
Is “crappie fishing” a euphemism for hiding in the office bathroom for an extended period of time in order to take a super long break from meaningless pencil pushing? If so, cudos to you for making a friend in the bathroom. It’s a guy thing, I am sure.
Crappie fishing is a real thing. It’s pretty big in La Florida de DeSantis and elsewhere
I point and laugh, sometimes lift my phone and pretend to take their picture. No reactions ever from the very rare masked fool I see.
The stupid middle/upper middle class Karens keep voting for these horrible people. They live in a world of FEAR. Wearing a diaper is like taking a valium was for women of my mother’s generation. It calms the hysteria of an unfulfilled life.
Indeed, fear is the driver – the fear of losing what you have and not getting what you want. Xerox always said that WANT is stronger than NEED. They knew their onions in those days and nothing has changed since the 1970s.
Re elected, sure in the same manner that Joe Biden was “elected”
I remember in the early mid 70s sitting on a bench by the Park Street subway station with my grandmother, the one from Southie, any way the Hare Krishna were doing their chanting and dancing about four feet away, my Gran just sat there making fun of them the whole time she was totally ripping them and there’s no way they couldn’t hear her. It was hilarious.
Powerful essay Eric, thank you. I tracked this cult a long time ago having studied under the JWs and posted an exposition: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-covidian-cult-is-global-453
Keep up the good work: This is what the Brits have to face everyday – pratts in short: In the old days eh? The old boy network!