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I’m a liberal who thinks the return of mask mandates is dumb
Not only do we exist, there are lots of us
July 30, 2021 | 8:16 am
Once we were vaccinated, they told us, we were free to move about the country, as the Southwest ad says. Now, suddenly, they’re rolling back that freedom, however incrementally. I think it’s wrong to place restrictions on people for a disease for which they almost certainly don’t have, are vaccinated for and have a 99.8 percent or higher chance of surviving even if they do get it. ...
The whole episode was weird and disheartening. I consider myself a liberal. ...
Our rulers promised us a return to ‘normal life’ and normal life seemed to be slowly returning.
Now, suddenly, the powers-that-be are starting to dial it back, and I’m concerned that they’re preparing to lower the lockdown hammer again. Masks feel to me like the gateway drug, so ‘I’m vaccinated and I shouldn’t have to wear a mask’ seems like a reasonable position to take. That’s not exactly ‘Comet Ping-Pong’, ‘Sandy Hook Was A Hoax’ or ‘Bush Did 9/11’ territory. And it’s certainly not ‘vaccines don’t work’, because they obviously do.
Since my dumb little Facebook post, I’ve received several hushed, whispered messages from people ‘like me’ who agree but said they are afraid to speak out because someone will report them. But they shouldn’t be afraid.
There has to be room for those who are slightly left-of-center to criticize COVID policy. I don’t want to make anyone sick. I just want consistent guidance and the ability to live freely and make my own choices. Somewhere along the line, liberals forgot that was something to value.
I’m a liberal who thinks the return of mask mandates is dumb
@Patrick, you're a liberal? Are you a democrat?
WineHorror1 says@Patrick, you're a liberal? Are you a democrat?
@WineHorror1 No, that's a quote of the original article. It's quoting me quoting someone else.
Onvacation saysWineHorror1 saysPatrick saysWhen people start dying from the "vaccine" in large numbers
Does anyone know when this is supposed to start happening?
Next flu season when those primed by the jab get exposed to the CCP virus in the wild they die in a cytokine storm.
That's one theory.
Do people actually believe this?
From my point of view, given that in my age group I have a vanishingly small chance of death, ....
I think the "Delta" hysteria is making people nervous.
Assume the vaccine IS deadly, we'll know in time if it is or not. If it is, it is.
WookieMan saysIt was kind of sad to watch, especially kids playing with masks on.
Child abuse.
I can picture in year 5 of the rolling lock-downs, the Ferrets dragging themselves into a State Injection Station for their 16th booster and cursing the "Vaccine Hesitant" for their situation.
Our universal use of unscientific face coverings is therefore closer to medieval superstition than it is to science, but many powerful institutions have too much political capital invested in the mask narrative at this point, so the dogma is perpetuated. The narrative says that if cases go down it’s because masks succeeded. It says that if cases go up it’s because masks succeeded in preventing more cases. The narrative simply assumes rather than proves that masks work, despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary.
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
14h
Amazing: Google's YouTube suspended @RandPaul -- a US Senator and a medical doctor -- for disputing the efficacy of cloth masks.
JUST LAST WEEK: Biden's former COVID adviser, the epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, told @camanpour exactly the same thing.
Bongino Report
@BonginoReport
13h
So @YouTube suspends @RandPaul, a medical doctor, for saying the exact same thing about cloth masks as Biden's former COVID adviser Dr. Osterholm?
Makes total sense if you're a leftist!
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
14h
Here's Dr. Osterholm on CNN saying exactly the same thing that @RandPaul just got suspended from YouTube for saying: that cloth masks, as opposed to N95s, provide very, very little protection. Why can yo say this on CNN or PBS but not YouTube????
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
14h
Here's Dr. Osterholm on CNN saying exactly the same thing that @RandPaul just got suspended from YouTube for saying: that cloth masks, as opposed to N95s, provide very, very little protection. Why can yo say this on CNN or PBS but not YouTube????
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1425486313831243778#m
also got the shot because he said the safety data checked out
He also got the shot because he said the safety data checked out.
IF masks have any marginal efficacy it is certainly only N95 masks.
I've been quite disappointed with Greenwald recently. As a constitutional lawyer, I imagined that he would be far more passionate about vaccine passports.
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