Mask Mandates Mock Liberty

It may seem like a small request. Wear a mask to save a life and business.

But it's not small at all.

It's not a request. It's a command.

It's an opaque measure resting on the usual appeals to the 'greater good' and 'public safety'.

A society that submits to such a small measure, is ready to fall to bigger ones.

People need to recalibrate how they perceive what's being asked of them less from the notion the authorities have our interests at heart and more from their God given inalienable rights. 

A person secure in their liberty won't feel shamed by others who accept the demands of government buying into is benign propaganda. The free individual is, well, free to explore and examine with a healthy skepticism what's being asked of them.

I personally can't understand a person who views a politician who calls for widespread mandatory masks as being an enlightened soul out to protect them. This is foolish as it is naive. The only thing a sociopathic politician cares for is power and control. They're learned to hide and dress up their lust for power in common good rhetoric but this be a trap.

They're master salespeople offering Faustian deals. Do you honestly believe Biden, Harris and Whimore actually care about you when they proclaim masks mandates and contact tracing?

They're doing it as a political calculus against Trump. That and indeed, they can't resist the power grab.

Notice how fast Legault and Arruda went from soothing Grandpas to 'wear the fucken masks or else watch us bad boys crush you'.

They're incapable of not admitting they don't know and rather than just govern the people with a delicate eye on preserving civil liberties, they fall back on the default position man has always tripped over: Tyranny.

Thank you're free riding your bike? What happens if the government demands we wear it outside? Or on Zoom calls? Or even in your own home? Think it's crazy? Have you not NOTICED what society already consented to with the lockdowns and masks? We're right in that lane.

I don't think it's necessarily by design in as much as this is how final acts of great civilizations play out. They trip they way into a totalitarian existence.

That was the whole point of the American constitution. To thwart that default position natural to man.

They understood it could not be erased and endeavoured to suppress it as best they could. The believe the first two amendments were essential in that strategy.

Without it, the liberty of the people is gone for good. The problem with is we're living in the after glow of greatness. We've never had to fight for our rights. We just....take orders and figure 'what's the big deal?'

It's a huge deal.

So people are well within in their rights to tell politicians to shove it up their asses during this pandemic. Public officials are looking at every turn to concentrate more power into their hands under the guise of public safety through emergency acts. If anything, a truly enlightened society concerned for the freedoms of its people reconsider the broad powers of government during such times.

Giving unlimited powers to mere flaw mortals is a bad idea.

Do you really believe Doug Ford is a man who should have such powers? Do you have such faith in politicians to hand over essentially all your liberties to them?

I wouldn't.

Rediscovering our sense of personal freedoms is something we have to work for again.

Start by liberating yourself and throw the damn mask away.

They're futile measures with little empirical evidence to back it up. It's based on tenuous assumptions (droplets and asymptomatic spreaders) and so are rooted in the precautionary principles.

They're forms of theatre and control by a science-technocrat elite who scarce know what they're doing. So much of a farce it is, the B.C government enlisted two celebrity actors (noted scholars and bastions of intellectualism and morality) to nag and scold people into wearing a mask.

My counter to my fellow Canadians is to not be shamed into it. Stop being lazy fucks. The sheep always get led to slaughter. Listening to Global News, CBC and other outlets (I gotta say CTV has hope and leave them out of this) and obeying is not exercising your mind. Those idiots in the Quebec press connecting masks as a duty for nation are conduits for government propaganda pablum.

Learn to exercise your critical thinking skills. Trust yourself. Don't just blindly be shovelled into empty acts of faux-virtue. It may superficially feel good, but there will be a void left deep inside you. That little 'nagging' sound is your soul telling you you're not being virtuous by submitting.

Why would submit to a measure that literally can only be lifted if the authorities say so despite the obscenely low numbers? You have to pressure them to commit to a timeline or else you get absurd statements like Tam who intimate the measure will last for two years even if there's a vaccine.

They can easily manipulate data to spin it in their favour. Consider:

If cases go up: Stop the spread! Wear the masks!
If cases stabilize: It's stopping the spread! Wear the masks!
If cases go down: It's working! Wear the masks!

Without needing to present a shred of evidence. Why should they? They haven't until now.

That's why it's important you muster the courage and give Seth Rogan and Ryan Reynolds the middle finger. Now you're free. And free to put in the time and effort to go read the ACTUAL DATA on masks.

I think, as a society, we're smart and healthy enough to make such choices without coercion, no?

Or are you that shallow and weak an individual to believe compelling others through force is justified? Man, in its nature, requires it face great adversity. It's what drives us as a species. We've become good at it. This is not an adversity that demands you forego your liberty.

One day, you'll the gun will be pointed in your direction.

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Public officials at work:

Why we'll just make them wear masks! Now they think we care! Let's have some pie!