After months of fearmongering for power and profit, our overlords continue to push masks in their ongoing attempt to show that they always have the answer and we just need to knuckle under to their super smarts. In fact, at the very top of the Inauguration Day Executive Orders released today was the “100 Days Masking Challenge” (see below for full text from press release [1]). In it, the CDC is quoted as saying that masks, “are a critical tool in the fight against COVID-19 that could reduce the spread of the disease.”
Wait just a second! We haven’t seen a smile outside our homes or been able to understand anyone for over 6 months now because masks “COULD” reduce the spread??? Of course, if there was any substantial evidence that they “DO” reduce the spread it would have said that, but alas there isn’t. In fact, there is abundant data showing that they do very little outside of very specific circumstances. Look at Ireland, they have both a lockdown and a mask mandate and their Covid cases have recently increased by 8,000%, that’s 80 times what they were. [2]
So let’s play Psychic for a moment. 100 days from now will be the very end of April. Like every year, the weather will be warmer and the virus will be receding like all viruses before it have. The Biden administration will claim victory and those who still listen to leftist news will say, “yeah, President Biden fixed that with the masks etc.”
Meanwhile we will have 100 days of hyper entitled Karen’s reminding us of what C. S. Lewis once said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” And with the ongoing tyranny, opioid deaths, suicides and mental illness will all continue to thrive. Have you seen these secondary effects of Covid policies, not Covid itself but governments’ response to it, mentioned in the leftist press lately.
Masks are clearly a symbol meant to convey a message, but what message? Their proponents would say, “I care about you!” But does their behavior indicate that or does it seem more like, “I care about you conforming to this lie that I refuse to see”? Like with previous well known symbols, a percentage of the population believes in the cause and a much higher percentage just want to keep the nuts from coming after them. How well did that appeasement strategy work out in 1934?
I propose to you that masks are not only ineffective, they are dehumanizing and demonic. Facial expressions are a significant part of human communication, not to mention that many of us need to read lips in order to compensate for our less than perfect hearing. We are social beings who need constant interaction with others for proper development and mental stability. No wonder mental illness, opioid overdoses and suicides have skyrocketed during these Covid times.
Isn’t it time to stop promoting this series of leftist lies? Please take off your masks, and keep them off. The tyrants know that you know they are lying to you. Perpetuating this lie will only bring bigger and more destructive ones in the future.
The primary principle of Catholic Social teaching is the dignity of each and every human person. We as a society get an “F” in this area lately, and the Church has been no better.
Fr. Pastor, we know that many of you want to provide the dignified liturgy the dwindling faithful deserve. We also know that you get ratted out to your diocese by some number of Karen’s every week for not enforcing masks, or not cleaning every 30 seconds, or whatever. Please stop the nonsense and let your parish be a light to the faithful. They need it badly right now. Don’t be angry with the maskless, they are not shunning the masks because they don’t care about others, but precisely because they do. Perpetuating this lie has gone far enough. There are grave societal consequences to letting it go on one minute longer. If we willingly advertise the lie on our very faces, what lie will they force us to tell next.
Jesus is always the answer, but as St. Teresa of Avila is purported to have said, we are His body, hands, feet, and eyes here on Earth. Isn’t it time to step out of the fear and be those for Him?
1 - From White House Press Release - Launch a “100 Days Masking Challenge” and Leading by Example in the Federal Government Today, President-elect Biden is launching his “100 Days Masking Challenge,” asking the American people to do their part - their patriotic duty - and mask up for 100 days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that masks “are a critical tool in the fight against COVID-19 that could reduce the spread of the disease.” President-elect Biden is also doing his part by issuing an Executive Order today requiring masks and physical distancing in all federal buildings, on all federal lands, and by federal employees and contractors. He is also asking the Department of Health and Human Services and Center for Disease Control to engage with state, local, Tribal, and territorial officials to implement masking, physical distancing, and other CDC public measures to stop the spread of COVID-19.
2 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ireland-covid-curve/2021/01/11/aeb08592-51cc-11eb-a1f5-fdaf28cfca90_story.html
The Mask Wars Intensify
After running most of his campaign from his basement with a mask on, and issuing the "100 Days Making Challenge," President Biden also signed an executive order mandating masks on all federal property on inauguration day (1/20/2021). That evening he and his family visited the Lincoln Memorial, which is obviously on federal property, without masks, confirming for many of us that the masks have been nothing but political theater from the beginning.