Biden Thanksgiving Lockdown Enforcers 2021
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Fear and Loathing” just about everywhere among folks who wear Covid masks. We see it in their eyes, in their avoidance of others, in their failure to acknowledge us. The devil’s plan of encouraging hate.
Ah we’re taking masks in stride in MA, stores have required them since April. It’s like wearing shoes and a shirt, now a mask to enter. Do they work? I don’t know. Probably not much protection if any if you keep your distance, but masks make people feel better and masks do remind people to keep some distance.
It’s not the masks that bother me, it’s government shutdowns of things the government should have no right to shutdown.
Lying liars got to lie.
China Joe
Didn’t
Win . .
President Trump Was Robbed.
If they don’t have a warrant, throw them out.
I think in Michigan the Governor has been playing shell-games with the courts and local sheriffs are acting responsibly by ignoring her at this point.
West of Chicago and east of Spokane, hospitalizations appear to have hit a plateau in all the states along the border and in a few one row down (South Dakota and Iowa among them). Knock on wood. The states whose hospital systems are most stressed as we speak are those of Nebraska and New Mexico. You look abroad, and they appear to have hit the plateau in Sweden, Ireland, Britain, France, the Low Countries, Spain, and the Czech Republic. Germany appears to be replicating its experience last spring and Italy is coming close to that (with the difference being that right now mortality rates are 2x as high in Lombardy as in the rest of the country rather than 7x as high as they were in March).
It’s not the masks that bother me, it’s government shutdowns of things the government should have no right to shutdown.
There has been way too much bellyaching about the masks and way too little about the deficit of efforts to protect the segments of the population which actually are vulnerable.
I agree with Art Deco: “There has been way too much bellyaching about the masks and way too little about the deficit of efforts to protect the segments of the population which actually are vulnerable.”
I hate the masks and yes, I do think the Democrats, the news media and social media technocrats (all one and the same) use these to keep us in dhimmitude (servitude). That said, when going into an enclosed public place like a grocery store or an office building or whatever, just wear the darn thing. It will never be as efficacious as a full face forced air respirator (such as what we used on the submarine during toxic gas drills and in radioactive atmospheres at a commercial nuke), but it’s not completely worthless as its detractors say – just freaking annoying as heck. And we should always exercise proper sanitation – washing hands frequently and otherwise keeping one’s self clean. Furthermore, if you’re feeling sick (cold, flu, whatever), just stay at home. Chances are you do NOT have COVID-19, but don’t pass around a nasty cold or flu either. Think about people too. And if someone isn’t wearing a mask, please, just shut your trap and move on. Not everyone can tolerate the feeling of asphyxia that a mask can give (in fact, that may be you, so don’t ridicule mask wearers for donning something that you can’t tolerate). Simply maintain 6 ft social distancing in such cases. And most of all – be aware that elderly people and those with pre-conditions like diabetes and heart disease are susceptible to things that you can shake off, whether it’s COVID-19, a cold or the flu. Lastly, we’re all a’gonna die. No one got off this planet alive (except Enoch, Elijah, the Blessed Virgin who fell asleep first, and a handful of astronauts and cosmonauts). Perhaps getting hit by the beer truck while crossing the street is more likely than death by COVID-19.
BTW, I can only tolerate wearing a mask for 15 to 20 min or so, then I have to go outside. My health is bad, my breathing labored, so things aren’t what they used to be. But I am not going to ridicule those who dutifully wear that darn thing that I hate. My wife has no issues with the mask – God bless her.
Art.
You are correct about Michigan.
Our Leelanau County Sheriff Mike Borkovitch is an outstanding individual and patriot. Two months ago we shared in an interview on the local talk news radio station..Am 580 WTCM with Ron Jolly, host.
He’s taken some flack but it doesn’t bother him. He has our back as he sees the Governor as an impediment to our Constitutional rights.
He’s a devout Orthodox Catholic and gladly accepted our Blessed St. Michael the Archangel cards for his brave patrollers.
We are blessed to have him for our Sheriff.
I concur with Art that the Mask War mostly misses the point.
It’s the arbitrary favoring and disfavoring of certain businesses–and the refusal to set actual-data-based standards for the decisions to destroy some and spare others. And @GretchGov is the worst of the lot, seeing as she is still the only idiot in the country who thinks sending infected patients to nursing homes is Good Medical Science.
My contempt for her cannot be quantified.
I do think that the Mask policies are mainly to get people emotionally involved. More specifically they give people who are skeptical of the government policies something easy to complain about, which distracts them from other issues, and they give the people supportive of the policies a scapegoat (i.e. “We can’t blame the government for destroying my business and making my life miserable because they’re only doing it because people aren’t wearing masks.”)
I think the mask policies are an example of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. There’s no point in making a fuss about it. Shuttering retail businesses rather than prescribing take-out and open air service for patrons over 50 is a real injury to merchants who’ve already been injured.
The Idiocrats Hate You and Think You Are [as] Stupid [as they are].
They’re using China virus hysterics to enslave you. They’re so [expletive-deleted] stupid, they don’t see that they’ve destroyed their cities’/states’private economies and tax bases and soon they won’t be able to pay their gestapos salaries. Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Stolen Election.
I Love Masks.
Most of my acquaintances aren’t going to stores except for hardware and grocery. My sinuses cannot take much rebreathing of exhaled air from mask wearing. So I make my visits short. Saves me money.
As a business owner in a blue state the ultra liberal governor’s emergency orders have cost us money complying and we are thinking of passing it on to the consumer. We are thankful that we have not been closed. I have to say, I’m done with Virginia. The average uninformed resident won’t notice how the Assembly Dem majority has screwed its citizens until tax time. Will there be a shift to the right? Not unless the machines are changed and an absentee ballots are limited. Meanwhile since God, guns, schools are important in this state, there are more and more lawsuits being filed.
A recent randomized, prospective study on mask use found no benefit. From the authors, “Our study gives an indication of how much you gain from wearing a mask,” Bundgaard said. “Not a lot.” FYI, the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association and the Lancet refused to publish the study. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine – an important journal but less read and less prestigious:
https://fee.org/articles/new-danish-study-finds-masks-don-t-protect-wearers-from-covid-infection/
And here’s a study on masks working that was retracted because Covid cases continued to rise in the areas studied long after the mask mandates were in place:
https://fee.org/articles/authors-retract-study-showing-efficacy-of-mask-mandates-as-biden-pushes-nationwide-requirement/
A recent randomized, prospective study on mask use found no benefit.
Did you prepare a bibliography or read the study?
I’ve actually read the study which has some confounding factors but is in line with previous thought. Refer the WHO report from Oct. 2019 on flu pandemics which basically found most interventions (including mask use) made no impact.
We’re reinventing the wheel on non-pharmacologic interventions in viral pandemics now with Covid at a very high cost.
We’re reinventing the wheel on non-pharmacologic interventions in viral pandemics now with Covid at a very high cost.
If you were interested in costs, you wouldn’t be fussing about masks.
My point being is that we’re re-learning that, as with the evidence with flu pandemics, broad interventions by the state to limit viral spread (including mask mandates) are generally ineffective.
A thought that bothers me is what might happen if we had a real pandemic; this country has enemies. They’re observing our flail.
Don’t worry about it. The friends of our enemies will be in charge shortly. If we’re nice to them, they’ll be nice to us.
Worked for Frodo and Sam, didn’t it?
(And if you say it didn’t, that just proves your prejudiced against Gollum like creatures who are cravenly evil through no fault of their own –hater. Deplatform yourself and rid us of your bigotry, as Saruman the Wise might say. You’re not going to argue with Saruman the Wise, are you? Well? ).