Some day, hopefully a day that I will have lived to see, when the people have reclaimed their democracy, they will bring to justice the health officials who have done so much to damage so many during this pandemic, not merely the physical harm caused by relentless efforts to compel vaccination with understudied and experimental drugs (a report on the true depth of vaccine injury and failure is coming), and not just economic losses hoisted upon thousands of businesses and millions of workers, but also the emotional and mental injury caused by the decimation of civil liberties and bodily integrity.
Vaccination and lockdowns, yes, but masks too are among the tools of oppression that have been used.
This past week, as Democratic politicians even in deep blue states began easing Covid restrictions—no mask mandate for the State of the Union, either; liberals can smell elections coming a season or two away—the CDC and its media propagandists were trying to get on the bandwagon. Sort of. The CDC issued new face mask guidelines based on the number of hospitalizations, and, good news!, if you aren’t in a high-risk area, indoor mask mandates can be dropped. At least for now, and so long as you remember that you don’t have to mask up because the government is granting you, out of the goodness of its heart, a temporary favor.
The CDC also begrudgingly admitted that cloth masks are the least effective, and, maybe just maybe, people want to think about respirators when they do have to mask up.
As my pappy would say, “That’s baked boloney!” “Baked baloney?” I would ask. “That’s right , baked baloney, son. Because nobody likes baked baloney.”
How true, yet the CDC and the Covidian cavalry have been force-feeding us baked baloney for more than two years. To be sure, many people—popularly known as Team Reality—have known for a long time that most masks are useless against the spread of the coronavirus and that those who support mask wearing can essentially be broken down into three groups.
First, there are the authoritarians of the political and medical establishment who want to use masks to reinforce the masked class’s inferior place in society and to rob them of personal identity—essentially using a branding iron as a means of social control. Throughout history, compelling the wearing of masks has worked as the equivalent of social handcuffs, cementing inferior status and constituting a form of mental torture. As Grada Kilomba wrote in an essay more than a decade ago for the Bicentenary of the Abolishment of the Atlantic Slave Trade, the mask in the age of slavery represented a “sadistic politics of conquest and domination”:
Formally, the mask was used by white masters to prevent enslaved Africans from eating sugar cane or cocoa beans, while working on the plantations, but its primary function was to implement a sense of speechlessness and fear, inasmuch as the mouth was at the same time a place of muteness and a place of torture.
It’s hard to argue against the same kind of function for masks in today’s world when masking is inadvertently stripped of its meaningless public health facade, as it is when mostly white elite liberals happily attend birthday parties and fundraisers and award galas, all unmasked while being obediently waited on by the masked servant class. Nothing depicts oppression better than that.
What’s most interesting is that the elites don’t even try to hide the charade.
The second category of mask advocacy comes from those who wear them to virtue signal. The intention is not to oppress directly but to signal that they are part of the preferred class, or at least its ally. They seek not to oppress but to avoid oppression.
Finally, and most pervasively, there are the many who wear masks simply because they have been terrified, for no good reason, by the corporate media and the public health establishment, and then told falsely that masks will protect them. And who can blame them? We’ve been subjected to this new study and that new study showing how effective masks are, though critics have punched gaping holes in each and every one. Either that, or the CDC has cherry-picked the data.
But how do we really know? people ask.
Good question, and here’s how we know …