Diaper Report

Guest Post by Eric Peters

It has been four years since 15 days to stop the spread – and there are still people  wearing “masks.” We saw a sign on the window of an Uber car the other day that “masks” are required to get in the vehicle. There are still doctors who diaper. And try to get others to do it, too.

It is almost impossible to not see Diapered People – a few of them, at least – whenever you go out among people.

I remember the first time I saw a Diapered Person, around this time four years ago. I was at the coffee shop I used to regularly frequent, back when things were still more-or-less normal. That is, more-of-less sane, in the sense that it was then uncommon to see mentally deranged people within coffee shops and such and everyone pretending not to see them.

You generally saw them mumbling to themselves as they pawed through dumpsters in alleys in the not-so-great parts of town.

Then I saw my first one at the coffee shop.

I remember everyone noticing it, too. This being due to the oddness of it – in those Before Times. Then – and it seemed like it happened just-like-that – oddness became not only normal but expected.

Demanded.

The people who worked at the coffee shop where I’d become a regular – and who I thought I had established friendly relations with – suddenly became most unfriendly. A sign appeared by the entrance that “masks” were now “required.” I ignored this – believing and hoping that the shop’s owner had put the sign up because she was under duress and resented it as much as I did. I thought: Ok, she has to play along but doesn’t actually buy into this idiocy.

I quickly learned otherwise.

She – and her employees, people I’d gotten to know I thought pretty well – kicked me out of the shop because I would not play along. Along with almost everyone else. That latter being even sadder. Bad enough that so many small business owners played along; but I get that they were under duress. It is not easy to not play along when your business – one you have probably got everything you have tied up in – is threatened with being “locked down” for not playing along.

But the way almost everyone else – ordinary people – played along in the most embarrassingly Step n’ Fetchit manner imaginable – remains a harrowing revelation about the eager servility of the average American. Who – like Ned Beatty’s character in the infamous movie, Deliverance –  doesn’t want any trouble.

No matter what it costs them.

Almost everyone played along, as soon as they were told to. Overnight, it seemed, nine out of ten faces were Diapered, transforming people into faceless things – which was of course the point of the exercise. That and the self-degradation. People who lack self-respect being people who don’t want any trouble, like Ned in the movie.

And now we’re four years down the river – so to speak – and what was once something you saw only in alleys in the not-so-great parts of town can be seen practically everywhere. A wheel has turned. Things will never be what they were. Just as they have not been the same since that day in September, now almost a quarter-century ago. Each day that passes, the memory of what it was like before that day grows just a little dimmer in the minds of those who can still remember. Many cannot, because they were not around before that day. A whole generation (going on two) has been born and raised to young adulthood with no memory of what it was like to just go to an airport and fly – without seeing a single blue-shirted government goon. Without needing to show up an hour before your flight’s scheduled departure, in order to be processed by blue-shirted government goons. Without being ordered to take off your shoes and put them in a plastic tray, as if you were being processed into a federal prison. Without having to stand there while a blue-shirted government goon put his hands on your wife or your child.

For them, such debasements are as “normal” as it has become to be ordered by government goons to wear a seatbelt – a thing that earlier generations (who grew up being free not to wear them) resent for the same reason a grown man – in better times – resented being told by some busybody to eat his veggies.

And now it is “normal” to see people wearing “masks,” too. It is very difficult to go back to normal once such things have been normalized. How do you persuade a “masker” that the “mask” he was told was necessary no longer is? In order for him to believe it isn’t, he must acknowledge that it never was. And that would mean admitting he was not only lied to but that he believed it.

The ones you still see “masking” will never stop believing the lies they were told – because coming to terms with the truth is a bridge too far. It is safer to play-pretend.

Forever, if that’s what it takes.

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