Medical professionals and staff having sane fun back in November of 2019 for a good cause, raising funds for cancer research at the Montreal Institute of Cancer through their event, the Soirée Masquée ("Masked Evening Party").
Medical professionals and staff in the office (not in proximity to any COVID patients) at Silver Cross Hospital in Illinois post-coronamania -- feeling obliged, with that strange mixture of virtue-signalling pride and anxiety, to wear masks anyway.
On Alex Berenson's Twitter page, there was one thread that had interesting & cogent replies by various tweeters. Alex started it off by responding to this tweet:
"My Relatives had to hide in haylofts so they wouldn’t be murdered by Cossacks, I can wear a mask when I go to Starbucks."
Alex's response was aptly snarky:
This is profound. But to go to Starbucks, wouldn’t you have to leave your safe room?
A few of the comments were in the coronamaniac camp (what Alex calls "Team Apocalypse"), but most were not (what Alex calls "Team Reality"), and a couple of times the latter cogently engaged the former.
Here are some of the more notable tweets from that thread:
My great-grandfather came to America so I’d never ever have to be told by the government to wear a mask.
But this isn't Russia, Nazi Germany, Communist China, modern Iran, etc. We haven't been conquered by Tamerlane. We're not subservient to the Romans.We should not have to hide or wear a mask or do anything of the sort because of fear of the government. She doesn't get that.
Imagine thinking that going to Starbucks is necessary if you're that afraid.
Weird inversion. You'd think the conclusion would be, "Cossacks...I think I can buy a cup of coffee without wearing a surgical mask." Somehow, it's, I come from tough stock, ergo I can do passively anything imposed on me by authority figures.
My relatives fought in wars against creeps like domineering Cossacks so people would be free from rule by domineering creeps that mandate mask wearing.
Then there was this exchange between a coronamaniac and a normal person:
coronamaniac: Getting out, working, spending, while wearing a mask will ensure the public stays healthy and society doesn't collapse. Wearing a mask is easy & limits the spread. People need to stop being whiny friggin babies and just wear the masks!
normal person: nope. If you're healthy and don't view others as virus-coated contagion, no need to wear a mask.
coronamaniac: Sigh...YOU may be healthy, but YOU may also be asymptomatic. That means YOU don't know that you are carrying the virus. If YOU are asymptomatic YOU may pass the virus on to others. The point is to reduce the spread.
normal person: there's zero evidence of asymptomatic people (who are merely breathing) spreading it. There's no precedent for obsessing over such things, no reason to start now.
coronamaniac: ok - share the current studies that show your statement to be true. The CDC says otherwise.
normal person: the onus is on you. There are no scientific studies that show that masking is worthwhile. There are not even scientific standards for the masks (unlike bike helmets). And the masks were deemed entirely optional during the riots and protests. I'll opt out of the charade,thanks
And here was another exchange between a different coronamaniac and a different normal person, scintillatingly lucid and succinct:
coronamaniac: How does a mask inhibit your freedom, exactly?
normal person: It depends on whether it's mandated or not, doesn't it?
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Only one problem with all the otherwise refreshingly real comments from the coronaskeptics: They all seem focused on the aspect of coronamania mask-wearing as an imposition from above on the people; but this imposition in our relatively free societies would have little or no traction without the millions of ordinary people who have so quickly become True Believers in the Mainstream Narrative about it.
This I maintain is one of the two most critical problems of this devolving global train wreck of a catastrophe; the other being our inability to really know virtually any damn thing -- especially on the macro level -- about the effects of this virus, given the misinformation, disinformation, and corruption of the data necessary for us to come to an informed assessment of the whole mess.
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