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DhammaStep says

I just realized that I don't even own a mask

@DhammaStep How do you buy food?

I've heard you can't dine in anywhere in NYC without vax proof.

Patrick says

DhammaStep says

I just realized that I don't even own a mask

@DhammaStep How do you buy food?

I've never been asked to wear a mask in a supermarket. I should have been more clear. I feel that businesses are required to have a sign that says "Please wear a mask" but it's not lawfully required to actually wear one. Citizens in NYC keep confusing these CDC recommendations with laws and it simply isn't the case from my experience. That or no one cares. The businesses I've frequented for decades don't care that I'm not wearing a mask. I don't wear a mask on the NYC subway, and I commute multiple times a day. I've ridden the trains next to MTA employees and the NYPD they simply don't care. There's a small percentage of folks like me that just don't wear masks anywhere, because they figured out that nobody will do anything. I'm always prepared to just turn around and leave if I'm asked to wear one, but it never happens.

The worst that can happen is middle aged to elderly women give me dirty looks. I was pretty adjusted to that before COVID. Any business that would force me to wear a mask just won't get my business.

Restaurants are a different story. We almost never dined out at restaurants before any of this passport stuff unless it was a very special occasion. When I order out for food, it's usually from places that barely had dining in space to begin with. Spending more than ten dollars for a hot meal would give me a damn heart attack anyway, so if I need a fast bite I go to one of our many food carts.

Just got home from a supermarket excursion so I did an unofficial count:

3 maskless customers (including myself)
2 maskless employees
The checkout girl wasn't wearing her mask over her nose
5 masked customers
3 masked employees
1 double masked irritable upper middle aged woman

And of course I forgot the damn vegetable broth.

Here in northern Virginia (I live about 1 mile from CIA headquarters...Langley Va.) which is deep blue. I never wore a mask anywhere. Was only asked to leave 2 places. We never did go out to eat much before covid. Mostly takeout so not going to restaurants didn't affect us much. I went in to grocery stores, my local hardware store, convenience stores, drug stores without any problems at all. I would always pick up our to go food without a mask. If they tried to enforce the mask bullshit I simply asked them if they wanted me to pay for my food order or if they wanted to lose even more money than they already have. Worked every time.

https://notthebee.com/article/bidens-education-secretary-tried-to-use-a-study-to-justify-masking-in-schools-and-the-author-of-the-study-publicly-shut-him-down-

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusCirclejerk/comments/pu86g3/dr_kevin_stillwagon_obliterates_the_mask_and/

Dr. Kevin Stillwagon obliterates the mask and vaccine mandates narrative at his local Orange County, Florida Board of Commissioners Meeting held on Tuesday, September 14, 2021

https://www.pasteur.fr/en/press-area/press-documents/covid-19-primary-schools-no-significant-transmission-among-children-students-teachers

Primary Schools: No Significant Transmission Among Children Or From Students To Teachers

Patrick says

DhammaStep says

I just realized that I don't even own a mask

@DhammaStep How do you buy food?

He shows the 666 tattoo on his forehead.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-viking-conquest/comments

Freedom is an illusion.

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