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Michael Tracey
@mtracey
Oct 17
Every time I walk into a restaurant with my mask affixed for 30 seconds before being seated, then spend 45 minutes unmasked eating and drinking, and then affix my mask again for 30 seconds while leaving, I give thanks for how many thousands of lives this practice has surely saved
6:51 PM · Oct 17, 2021

Patrick says

Michael Tracey
@mtracey
Oct 17
Every time I walk into a restaurant with my mask affixed for 30 seconds before being seated, then spend 45 minutes unmasked eating and drinking, and then affix my mask again for 30 seconds while leaving, I give thanks for how many thousands of lives this practice has surely saved
6:51 PM · Oct 17, 2021

NEVER wear it on the way out. What are they going to do, ask you to leave?

mell says

Even pro youth athletes have passed out / collapsed running track hard while wearing a mask. Nuts

Good way to cheat, just have something that makes breathing through the mask easier. That will give you a competitive advantage.

Anyhow, it IS ludicrous to have masks, well, at all.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/why-do-parents-support-mask-regime/

Millions of insane mothers are permanently damaging their children.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/its-crap-victorian-study-claiming-mandatory-masks-stopped-second-wave-shredded-by-experts/news-story/aeb937d27ec5a79e6b728ade598f49ab

‘It’s crap’: Victorian study claiming mandatory masks stopped second wave shredded by experts
The authors of a “world-first” Australian face mask study that was ripped apart by experts as “very, very low quality” have issued a response to the criticism.

Frank Chung
October 21, 2021

In St Thomas/John right now. Super strict from last year. Beaches are fine. Restaurants are crazy. I guess local gov has roaming Covid brigades. Talked with the bartender at length and they legit walk down the beach and sneak on the resort to catch them doing something “wrong.”

I love this place, but not digging the mask. I’ll wear the neck gaiter for sun protection, but getting annoyed having to mask up for no reason. Having fun, but not the same as the last two years. Boat day today. Should get my annual Epstein Island photo. Insomnia sucks. Need to get back to sleep.

You should have gone to Florida instead.

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1452688070461980674

Booger says

You should have gone to Florida instead.

Was there last month and for Spring Break this year. Love me some Florida, but there’s not a single beach that touches those of St John and a few on St Thomas.

Panhandle FL does have the best sand I’ve personally experienced. But the water, reefs and underwater wildlife can’t be beat in USVI versus mainland US. Between vacation as a child till now, I’ve probably lived close to 2 years in FL. So we switched it up and love it besides this Covid BS

WookieMan says

Panhandle FL does have the best sand I’ve personally experienced.

Clearly you have never been on the beach in Atlantic City.

I'm a little disturbed by the increase of mask wearing I've been seeing during my commutes on the NYC subway. Just two months ago it wouldn't be unusual to have at least two other people unmasked on the train at any given time, but now they've started to disappear.

The mandates likely took away the freebreathers jobs thus negating their need to commute?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kbUISdrnZ8

Booger says

Clearly you have never been on the beach in Atlantic City.

Needles don't wash up on the beach in the Panhandle.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

Needles don't wash up on the beach in the Panhandle.

They don't in Atlantic City either!

https://newjersey.news12.com/lifeguards-reportedly-find-over-100-needles-along-jersey-shore-following-recent-storms

This shit is so old and ongoing, I remember hearing about the Jersey Shore needles washing up back when I was a kid and my dad was listening to 1010 WINS or 880 WCBS.

Can't believe Sliwa is running for Mayor, hope against hope.

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-true-meaning-of-masking/

Masking can act as a tool through which a particular relational dynamic is enacted. The coercive nature of mask mandates means that masks are experienced as being in one part of a coercive relationship. The relationship can be described as:

-moralizer vs those in need of moral correction, or

-enforcer vs enforced. ...

In the “enforcer vs enforced” or “moralizer vs ‘needing of moral correction,’” the ‘enforcer’/’moralizer’ role can be enticing – after all, exerting power from a position of moral judgement has been an attractive position for government and those in positions of leadership in institutions since time immemorial.

However for those on the other side of these relationships – those experiencing enforcement, or being moralized – it is an oppressive and suffocating relationship. In these circumstances, removing a mask is not a sign of ‘not caring;’ rather it becomes a safety valve and one small step towards exiting a controlling and oppressive relationship. ...

Wearing a mask, therefore, signals to others “I consent to this system, I consider myself to be an infection risk to others and wish to be governed as such” and significantly “I invest in the medical system as the authority to make and impose decisions on society independent of democratic and legal safeguards.”

In this context, choosing to not wear a mask can be a simple act of rejection of medical power, of affirming the reality that our lives are complex, and our relationships diverse, and therefore do not consent to diminishing ourselves to a risk that needs to be managed, but rather assert our humanity and dignity, and most importantly our respect for our fellow citizens.

Not wearing a mask, therefore, can make a statement of “I respect that we all have unique relationships to health and to authority, with our own individual perspectives. I am curious to hear what you think, and I do not view you as a risk to be managed, but as an equal citizen with whom I am privileged to share the world.” ...

However the invocation of the legal system and other coercive functions of the state to enforce one set of meanings, one understanding of health behaviours onto others, needs to be resisted. We all must live in this world and our society together, and therefore need to listen and be open to different perspectives – however it is only possible to do that once the threat of mask mandates and other tools of coercion are removed.

https://notthebee.com/article/biden-met-maskless-with-pope-francis-even-though-hed-met-with-covid-positive-jen-psaki-the-week-before

Biden met maskless with Pope Francis even though he'd met with Covid-positive Jen Psaki the week before

No, Masks Do Not Work Against The Flu
Somehow the inaccurate narrative refuses to die

https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/no-masks-do-not-work-against-the?r=kt9k9&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net

Fortunately, in 2019, the World Health Organization collected a thorough review of the literature for their “Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza” planning document.

It bears repeating just how little evidence there was for the organization to suggest that masks would impact the flu:

1. Ten RCTs were included in the meta-analysis, and there was no evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.

Ah wait, it wasn’t that there was “little” evidence. There was no evidence. None.

Ten randomized controlled trials. Ten of them. All resulted in zero evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.

Here’s a relevant portion of their discussion, explaining just how little impact masks had:

…the evidence was insufficient to exclude chance as an explanation for the reduced risk of transmission

Literally, the potential reduction in transmission was indistinguishable from random chance. This is what the media are promoting as an indefinitely necessary measure.

https://covidreason.substack.com/p/whats-up-with-masks-where-you-are

Booger says

I thought the Florida school system was forbidden from requiring masks.

PBC is dropping it November 15th, they've been fighting DeSantis and Judge Shopping for months, time must have run out.

WineHorror1 says

I thought the Florida school system was forbidden from requiring masks.

Yes, so how did she get suspended?

WineHorror1 says

Booger says

I thought the Florida school system was forbidden from requiring masks.

Libtards in SE Florida probably have or has mask nonsense.

Didn't DeSantis forbid mask mandates in FL?

Patrick says

Didn't DeSantis forbid mask mandates in FL?

Yes. Teacher Guild School Boards disobeyed it and tried to Judge Shop, but they are running out of time. Some gave up.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/never-ending-mask-mandate-rochelle-walensky/

Resist the never-ending mask mandate
The CDC director has endorsed the idea of permanent masking to prevent the spread of the common cold and flu

Nearly two years without a head cold, let alone flu. Same with my kid. Masks work anecdotally for me. I’ve never been without atleast a head cold for this long in my life.

BoomAndBustCycle says

Nearly two years without a head cold, let alone flu. Same with my kid. Masks work anecdotally for me. I’ve never been without atleast a head cold for this long in my life.

I find that as I age, I get sick less often - which is paradoxical, but when I get sick, I get sick.

When I was in my late 20's and actually gave a damned about being in shape, I used to run about 5 miles every day. I got the flu. I was sick in the morning and recovered entirely by the afternoon but I was sick.

I haven't been sick in years. I had a touch of something early this year which MIGHT have been sars-cov2-19, it was mildly annoying, food started to taste bland for several weeks, but I was otherwise fine within a day.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/apple-store-lets-go-brandon-corporate-mask-policies/

I was dress shopping for a wedding at Tyson’s Corner in Virginia last Thursday when I saw two security guards and a man wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirt having a heated discussion.

Usually I would assume shoplifting was involved and move on, but considering the left’s freakout over the “Let’s Go Brandon” chants sweeping the country and their insistence on punishing those who use the phrase, I stopped to listen to the exchange.

I soon gathered that the man, who later identified himself to me as Alex Caballero, was kicked out of the nearby Apple Store for allegedly violating their mask mandate. Caballero told the security guards that he entered the store because he had a service appointment. When the store’s security guard told him he needed to wear a mask, he pulled a gaiter up over his face. The store guard and manager insisted that Caballero’s gaiter wasn’t good enough and told Caballero he would need to wear a mask provided by the store or leave. Caballero asked to see the store policy indicating he could not wear a gaiter, but the guard and manager refused and instead threatened to call the police. No one involved refuted Caballero’s version of events.

After about a 15-20 minute conversation outside of the store, one of the security guards told Caballero that he was “free to go”, because apparently it’s not only legal, but a good use of time and resources to detain someone because Apple didn’t like the type of mask they were wearing.

The Apple Store mask policy does not specifically prohibit gaiters. The company website says the following:

N95 masks with valves, and masks that do not cover your nose and extend below your chin — such as bandanas, are not permitted at Apple Stores. Replacement masks will be provided as needed.

Does a gaiter not extend below the chin and cover the nose? I asked the manager of the store if he could clarify the mask policy, and he declined and told me to call corporate. I reached out to Apple via their listed contacts for media and did not receive a response.

Caballero told me he suspects his “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirt played a part in the hostility showed to him by the Apple Store employees and Tyson’s Corner Security guards.


What is more obvious is how absurd it is that people are still dealing with inane corporate mask policies more than a year and a half since the start of the pandemic. We have seen time and again how businesses implement poorly defined, unnecessarily strict, or just plain unscientific mask mandates in the name of “public health”. To most sane employees, enforcing these policies is an inconvenience. Some, unfortunately, abuse this new power they have over customers, leading to incidents like the one at Tyson’s on Thursday.

You know what’s even sillier about the Apple employees’ insistence that a gaiter wasn’t an acceptable mask? Just a day later, Bloomberg reported that Apple would remove its mask mandate for customers at over 100 stores due to declining COVID-19 cases and rising vaccinations across the country.

I went into that same exact Apple store as I live but a mile or 2 from Tysons Corner mall. I was refused entry. I went in anyway, called everyone in there faggots via raised voice and gave everyone the double finger salute. Then I left. I was going to switch to Apple but changed my mind to NEVER will I.