Friday, March 29, AD 2024 4:28am

PopeWatch: Maskless Pope

The fact that the Pope tries not to wear masks has not escaped notice from the usual suspects:

 

Pope Francis’ decision to forgo wearing a mask has been noticed, with some concern, by the commission of Vatican experts he appointed to help chart the Catholic Church’s path through the coronavirus pandemic and the aftermath.

The Rev. Augusto Zampini, one of the key members of the pope’s COVID-19 commission, acknowledged Tuesday that at age 83 and with part of his lung removed after an illness in his youth, Francis would be at high risk for complications if he were to become infected with COVID-19.

“He has started to use the mask now,” Zampini said in response to reporters’ questions. “And I hope he will use it in the general audiences, when he is close to the people. If you’re in an open space, we know that it’s different. But well, we are working on that.”

 

Go here to read the rest.  Left unsaid, of course, is that breathing through a face rag is tough, much more so for an 83 year with only a partial set of lungs.  Don’t let them bully you your Holiness!  Notice how swiftly mask wearing went from a suggestion to a mortal sin  to be without? The trajectory of the Left on most issues.

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Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Friday, October 30, AD 2020 3:46am

Wearing a mask is unhealthy physically, psychologically and socially. No one should wear a mask for the above reasons, not to mention they don’t even work and can make you ill besides.

DJH
DJH
Friday, October 30, AD 2020 5:06am

I call them “face condoms.”

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Friday, October 30, AD 2020 6:46am

I like “face diapers” better.

Rudolph Harrier
Rudolph Harrier
Friday, October 30, AD 2020 6:47am

The trajectory went much like the discussion on secondhand smoke did.

Went almost immediately from “If you live with a chain smoker for 20 years you’re probably at higher risk for certain types of cancer” to “if you inhale even one puff of smoke from someone 20 feet away outside, you could die.”

In particular current discussion is reminding me of a debate I had on smoking laws. When I said that I didn’t worry at all about dining in a non-smoking section since most of the smoke stayed in the smoking section and my time in the restaurant was minimal anyway I got the response “well if you only ate one gram of nuclear waste the exposure would be minimal but you still wouldn’t do it.”

John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Friday, October 30, AD 2020 8:18am

No mask? No, the Pope (Emperor) has no clothes (the Faith) and almost no Bishop or Cardinal will say it.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pope-promotes-gay-couple-who-rented-uterus

Rudolph Harrier
Rudolph Harrier
Friday, October 30, AD 2020 1:34pm

Had a very frustrating discussion with my Boomer parents. They had went to a mass one weekend at a small neighboring town and kept complaining about how “unsafe” it was. Their first complaint was “they seated every other pew! You have to be seated every third pew or else you aren’t ‘social distancing’.” Their second complaint was “people were in too much of a rush to receive the Eucharist. They got dangerously close to each other.” Their third complaint was “they didn’t keep track of who was there or turn people away. If there was an outbreak it would be impossible to know who to quarantined.”

Tried to turn discussion back to the importance of having access to the Eucharist and the general spiritual importance of the mass, but they were fixated on how irresponsible and deadly just going a little over the magical guidelines was.

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