The True Purpose of Mask Mandates

 I know I promised not to beat on the mask drum again.  What is left to say?  Masks are clearly useless for controlling the spread of respiratory viruses, and the so-called "experts" know it.  Apparently, even our cognitively challenged President knows it.  But it turns out there is at least one more thing to say about masks: namely that Mandatory Face Convering's Only Purpose Was Promoting Fear, an article by Hrand Tookman at The Federalist.

It's as old as civilization itself, and indeed it is how tribal chieftains became Kings and so-called "noblemen." Create enough fear in a population, and they will agitate for someone to save them. Then you present yourself as their savior, but of course the salvation requires giving up power. "But, anything, just save us!" they reply. This is exactly the scam run on us for the last 2 plus years.

A lot of people will make a lot of claims. A tiny sliver will continue to claim mask mandates actually helped mitigate the spread of Covid-19.

They will be the outliers because, in terms of stopping the spread of Covid or any other virus, wearing a mask is the equivalent of doing a rain dance: it might make you feel better, and some quacks will tell you it works, but ultimately it does nothing except make you look foolish and give you a false sense of security. (Vaccine mandates were the modern equivalent of burning witches at the stake.)

It was all so stupid, and foisted on us by people we’re supposed to trust, which is why we need this honest accounting of what it was really all about. A lot of people will claim the masks were about establishing and maintaining control.

That’s fair, but it wasn’t their primary purpose. The primary purpose of the mask mandates was to make every person who wore one a walking advertisement for fear.

The emphasis is mine. Yes, it was to make us afraid. In this effort, the nightly news programs cooperated by constantly telling us the nightly numbers of Covid cases. Retail outlets unwillingly in many cases, cooperated by enforcing masking on customers for fear of losing their business licenes. I am sure many a grocery store manager wanted to let everyone do his own thing, but was forced by states with such threats. By July 2020, most of us already knew that the virus was not spread on surfaces like door knobs, and that masks were as useless as tits on a boar hog. But we were compelled in many cases to send a message of fear that we didn't believe. That is a violation of free speech rights, by the way.

Tookman hopes that we can prevent this from happening again. But what is the inflation concerns, if not trying to create fear? Sure, inflation is very real, but we have been here before. We will survive, and we already know how to stop it. So fear is not an appropriate response. The Administration has escalated the war in Ukraine and created fear of a nuclear war. Biden wants to be a war president, because we have never tossed a president out of office while a war was going on. Michner said it best: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Rather than hoping to stop what is unfortunately, human nature, it makes more sense to be ever vigilant and not be afraid. After all, we are not in control...God is.