Ask a “Masker”?

Guest Post by Eric Peters

When you see a “masker,” do you ever feel like asking them why they’re “masking”? The term in air fingers quotes marks to emphasize the absurdity of the practice. Doesn’t everyone know by now that “masks” don’t “work”?

The latter in air fingers quote marks to emphasize the misdirection of that word’s usage. “Masks” obviously do “work” – in the sense that they provide psychological comfort to those who wear them. Else why would they still be wearing them?  Might as well ask why some people are still taking those drugs presented as the vaccines they never were.

So maybe asking them is a good idea?

The thought occurs to me every time I see a person in a store (most recently, at the gym where I lift weights) wearing a “mask.” I cannot understand it. How obstinately willful do you have to be to ignore what’s literally going on all around you – i.e., that most people around you are not “masking” and are not dying? Perhaps because of what they have seen on TeeeVeeee. This might plausibly account for the old people who continue to “mask” as those people tend to be people who watch a lot of TeeeVeeee. In particular, “mainstream” news, bracketed within air fingers quotes to emphasize another misdirection of thought via the use of a word to impart a meaning that isn’t accurate, much less true. Just as a drug that doesn’t prevent someone from acquiring or transmitting a sickness is by definition not a vaccine, a media outlet that most people do not watch isn’t “mainstream.”

The word was applicable decades ago, when CBS, NBC and ABC were what most people watched. For a time, lots of people watched CNN, too. They were “mainstream.” They no longer are – in terms of audience size – yet continue to drape the mantle over themselves (and have it draped over them, by those who agree with the editorializing that is purveyed in lieu of news) just the same as “vaccine” is applied to drugs that do not immunize – and so are no such thing.

“Maskers” under 30 are harder to understand – in the first place, because they are under 30. How can a young person be so fear-enthralled by a sickness that doesn’t kill almost 100 percent of people who are under 30? Don’t young people – people in the flower of youth and health, who are their physical peak – feel invincible anymore?

Remember when they did?

It used to be the default – as anyone who is over 50 today can attest. When we were under 30, we got lectured about being more careful – and probably, we ought to have been. I rode fast motorcycles right up to the edge – and by the grace of the Motor Gods, am still around to remember it. I no longer take the kinds of risks I did when I was 25, because I am well-aware I am not invincible – and know I wasn’t when I was 25, either.

But when I was, I felt I was. Everyone I knew back then felt the same. We didn’t feel or behave like fearful old men, terrified of risk. And we took real ones. Now I see 25-year-olds walking around with a “mask” over their faces – apparently because they are that afraid of a cold that is as likely to result in their death as a toilet falling out of the sky and dropping on their head.

Yet they persist in pretending they are that afraid of this cold. Or maybe they actually are that afraid of this cold. It could be that they are expressing their approbation of a narrative, much the same as people who wear a yarmulke or similar religious affectation do. It is not that they are afraid of catching cold so much as it is fervor to show they have faith. Doubtless, most of these believers have lost (or never had) the religious faith that this secular religion seeks to hijack by giving those who believe in it the sense of purpose and meaning that they lack. A sense of community – in the religious sense. They belong – and that makes them feel good. It gives them something to ground themselves on. It doesn’t matter that it’s specious.

Ask an ex-Moonie, if you disbelieve this.

What matters is that feeling they’ve latched onto something – and that they are a part of something. It makes them feel safe among the apostates.

Either that or they are just stupid – a possibility that cannot be dismissed. I suppose the only way to find out what’s going on in their minds (assuming they have minds) is to ask them why they are still “masking.”

Of course, this may prove to be like asking a rooster to explain why the sun rises.But we’ll never know until we ask. And it might just be good for them, if they’re capable of answering without exploding.

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