Okay, y’all. I’m going on the offensive. Instead of being on pins and needles while out and about mask-less, worrying whether people are going to go full-bore psychotic on me or not, or averting my eyes as to avoid the hateful glares peering from atop people’s muzzles, I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands. I now wear a body cam when I venture out into lunatic la-la land.
If you haven’t been subjected to the misplaced moral superiority and peak hostility that define the “mask-holes” who lurk in your neck of the woods, lucky you. But I have been.
I’m Rebecca. I’m a recovering mask-wearer. And here’s my story.
Yes, this really happened, and at the post office, no less. Here’s how it unfolded. (Names have been blocked to protect the innocent.)
Here are some of the best comments and insights from my smart friends.
Here is a link to McClanahan’s podcast, which posits that mask-holes are just Yankees. I couldn’t agree more. Self-righteous busybodies haven’t felt this empowered since 1861.
Since leftists are always taking photos of people’s license plates, I snapped one of the malevolent man’s vanity plate. Perhaps we should get him cancelled for being such a misogynist against an “oppressed” female. Or maybe fed-up folks will just start punching the verbal totalitarians and physical assaulters.
The altercation at the post office wasn’t my only run-in with a mask-hole. The first took place at the height of the BLM-Antifa riots, when leftists were given carte blanche to go maskless while ignoring the social-distancing and no-mass-gathering edicts many a mayor and governor put forth to allegedly fight the spread of the virus. Apparently, social-justice warriors have superpowers that we plebs lack.
Masks have become the symbol for conformity and repellence to logic and evidence. It’s a badge of collectivism for the crazy. This is why unhealthy people berate healthy people, and craven people venture out into the “pandemic” petri dishes of stores and restaurants; monitoring the resistors gives people a sick sense of control, purpose, and belonging. It’s political theater at best and psyops at worst, but either way, keeping people well is not the goal.
A mere two days after the post-office incident, this occurred at my local supermarket, proving again that we are certainly not all in this together.
So, I have had three altercations to date and used three different approaches: the “If BLM can be lawless, so can I” tact, the “Engage with facts and common-sense” method, and the “Try to trigger the tyrant” strategy. But all left me feeling too stressed and too much like a reactionary. Why play on their field of battle? Why let them make the rules? I say let’s take the fight to the bullies.
Full disclosure: My family self-quarantined early on, well before most institutions decided to shut down life in perpetuity. One of my sons had a lobectomy when he was baby and now has only four lobes in his lungs, so comorbidities were a concern for our family.
Back then, I was typically the only person donning a mask in stores. Shoppers would look at me like I was nuts, but those were the “daze” during which we didn’t know much about the virus, so we voluntarily erred on the side of caution.
Did I ever lecture any strangers in public? Nope. And now we all know the data and have nearly a year’s worth of evidence from which to glean information and make good decisions, yet now is when the masses decide to mask up? It’s back-ass-wards.
Moreover, the “rules” are inconsistent. Wear your mask at the store, except for kids under 11. Wear your mask at the restaurant, but you can take it off when you eat. Wear your mask at church, except for the choir. Wear your mask at the dentist, but you can remove it to have your teeth cleaned. Wear your mask walking around town, until you keel over from carbon-dioxide inhalation and someone has to give you mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. None of this makes a damn lick of sense.
In fact, when I was at the dentist recently, the doctor said a patient told him that her teeth cleaning was only the second time she’d left her house since February! And some church friends told us that a man from our parish hasn’t left his house at all!! This is criminal and the mask-holes only enable the insanity.
Even after my crisis-level worries started to subside back in the spring, I still didn’t think masks were a hill to die on. Wear one or don’t. It didn’t matter to me because I was more concerned with the reopening of businesses, rec baseball, homeschool co-ops, concerts, museums, pools, parks, festivals, libraries and all the things that add value to our existence. But now we see that masks are the hill upon which the entire leftist war is being waged.
Let me be clear about churches: I do not think that any Christian parish should have implemented any civil mandates (especially after the original “two weeks to flatten the curve” phase) – no masks, no social distancing, no caps on attendance, no sanitizing Chalice spoons, no banning the kissing of icons, etc.
As an Orthodox Christian, I believe that a parish is a Holy space where Heaven and earth meet, and that God is indeed present. I believe that the Church is the Bride of Christ and the Eucharist is literally Jesus’ blood and body, which are used for the healing of our souls and bodies. It can never be corrupted by sickness.
And I believe that Christians shouldn’t fear death, nor should they mirror the world. That is faith. That is dogma. It is Orthodoxy 101, and to me, it is non-negotiable. Church should have always been our refuge from the chaos, a light in the darkness, but alas, it is now too often part of the problem.
Masks are also becoming racialized, since Pew reports that “black and Hispanic churchgoers” are more concerned about the “safety of in-person services,” and are thus, more committed to masks mandates and other liturgical “modifications.” Like my smart-as-a-whip hillbilly mother in-law has said from the very beginning, if you’re that damn scared, stay your ass at home and leave the rest of us be.
I know plenty of people understand that masks are a virtue signal but still wear them. I get that people are trying to avoid trouble, be polite, be good neighbors, be the gray man, compromise in order to get some semblance of our old lives back, yada yada yada. But if more and more of us go about our business sans mask, I think we can not only lessen anxiety, but we can also change the status quo. Let’s unplug the panic porn!
Hell, get a body cam and let’s take this non-hysterical revolution to the streets! Let’s stop placating idiocy and normalizing something that is just plain dangerous – physically, mentally, and spiritually. Let’s liberate ourselves of our nose-and-mouth shackles and breathe free again.
Interestingly, when I wore the body cam, it was a huge conversation piece. Even masked people would stop and talk to me and tell me how they thought it was “smart” that I was trying to capture the madness because most masked folks even get that it’s, well, madness. I hadn’t had that many friendly impromptu chats out in public since early March. It was glorious. And how many Yankees challenged me? Zero.
If more and more of us refuse to comply, it will embolden others to follow suit. And it will in turn foster a real sense of community, common-sense, and civility, which are all battles in this total war against meaningful human life itself.
We’ll be called “murderers,” but hey, we’ve already been castigated as grandma killers, science deniers, racists, white supremacists, fascists, and Nazis, so what’s another ad hom? As long as we’re not the boiling frogs, who really cares? Here’s to tippin’ over the nihilism pot, rebels.
Comments
“Mask-holes.” Ha, ha! You wrote:
Yeah. I’ve been saying for awhile now that the majority of (white) people in God’s Country at least know it’s all b.s.; that they’re simply ‘going along to get along.’ I’m personally too much of a non-conformist for all that, therefore I’ve not worn a mask since day one, and I’m not going to start wearing one anytime soon, or ever if you want to know the truth of it. If a manager or an employee asks me to leave their establishment, I’ll do so without protest, but that hasn’t happened as yet either. At least not to me.
BTW, blacks and POCs in general tend more to be “true believers” than their white counterparts because they also tend to be very superstitious by comparison. And it takes a heap of superstition to believe wearing a cloth mask of any kind will prevent the spread of a tiny virus, even if that were preferable in any case. Which of course it isn’t.
Good post. Keep fighting the good fight!
I was just commenting to my husband that when I see other maskless people, it is almost always another white person. Isn’t that weird? You would think POC, who are supposed to be soooooo resistant to institutional rules and systems of power, would be the ones bucking the trend, but that is not the case. So perhaps your prone-to-superstition theory is correct. But then the other weird thing is that no black person has ever challenged my masklessness – only old white people, or at least, “white passing” people. Strange times indeed.
Love this post! Humor and fact hold my attention and I received a full dose of each.
Those like “the dude in the Jeep,” take on a moral superiority that makes me want to throw up. I don’t even pretend to remain polite to those types.
Keep telling it like it is!!!! I’m loving it!!!
So glad you liked it. Yes, I was going for a mix of humor and fact, as this entire masked culture really is funny when you stop and think about it. But it is, in fact, serious too, since it’s paving the way for more conformity and less questioning in the future. I pray people stand strong against the madness. Thanks for doing your part to keep the mask-holes on their toes, Anne!
Good on you takin’ it to ’em, DM!
I didn’t feel like wearing my body cam yesterday, so I was ready with my new line if someone hassled me for not donning a woke muzzle: “I identify as a masked person.” And then my friend Jim suggested this addendum: “How dare you invalidate my lived experience! Your verbal violence will not be tolerated.” Feel free to use these in defiance of clown world.
I choose to wear a mask when at work and when in the grocery store, because I would like to stay employed, and I respect when a private business asks me to ‘mask up’ for fear that they or I will get fined otherwise. I always wear the least effective mask though. A small dissent I know, but I’m just not ready to make war with my job and the grocery store over this issue.
I commend you though. Wearing a mask is medically pointless and does way more harm than good for most people. This disease is a joke. I don’t trust any of the numbers coming out. False positive tests galore I’m sure. People dying of other things and being labeled Covid deaths. It’s all insane.
I know a few people who got it and two were very sick (they were both around 70), but they’re all fine now. I’m not happy with any government official’s response to this that has any bearing on my life. Houston’s leadership is fully woke and Gov. Abbot has no spine. Thinking of moving to Sweden or Switzerland. Lol
Seeing all the people masking up in their cars or outside in open spaces just gives me less and less faith in any kind of positive result coming from any form of democracy.
I get wearing one at work. I work from home and my husband is my boss, so I have it pretty easy, and I get that many people don’t. Damn, I feel for ya, man. That sucks!!
But I guess my overall point is that most people conform and do what’s popular. So if more and more people stop wearing masks in situations that don’t include losing a job, they should. It will embolden all the other nice people like you and possibly make the business reconsider its stance. Here in NC, our executive mandate isn’t law, as it required senate approval, which I think Gov. Cooper didn’t get. And if you read the language of the mandate, it says to wear a mask only if you cannot social distance, so either or. Plus, it’s silliness. I honestly pray that businesses resist and open up full force and cops won’t enforce it, as the mandates (for all the reasons you listed above) are absolutely insane. Even the CDC is admitting the elevated case numbers (which even STILL aren’t that high – 2000 deaths in NC out of 10.5 million is NOT a crisis) are mostly bogus, and that only 6% of deaths across the US are due to ONLY covid. Really what I should be praying for is people to pick up pitch forks and torches and get revolutionary on our “leaders” asses. Enough is enough. I’m just done.
https://www.ibtimes.com/cdc-finds-only-6-coronavirus-deaths-are-solely-covid-19-3037136
Praying for Pitchforks. That’s a great t-shirt idea. Lol
You should check out Johnathan Pageau’s video “Masks as Veils“. The gist is that the wearing of masks and the tearing down of statues are mutually symbolic of an intention to anonymize or break down our identities, our personalities and our culture in order to usher in new identities, new personalities, and a new culture. Is it just a coincidence that both are occurring simultaneously?
Whip, whip
Run me like a racehorse
Pull me like a ripcord
Break me down and build me up
I wanna be the slip, slip
Word upon your lip, lip
Letter that you rip, rip
Break me down and build me up
Whatever it takes
‘Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do whatever it takes
‘Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Whatever it takes
You take me to the top I’m ready for
Whatever it takes
‘Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do what it takes
-Imagine Dragons – Whatever it Takes
I agree 100% with Pageau’s take. Remember that article I wrote about identity-less-ness? It’s just pushing that cart further down the road, or off the cliff, as they say. A people without roots, traditions, cultures, church, ties that bind (basically, anything that competes with the elites) are easier to control. And if they’re only socialization is computers and TV, and not human interaction, well, that just makes it even easier. Thanks for sharing the video and for commenting, TL!
http://www.dissidentmama.net/indentity-less-ness/
“A people without roots, traditions, cultures, church, ties that bind (basically, anything that competes with the elites) are easier to control. ”
That is definitely the goal of the Left, at least in regards to people of European ancestry (the only real challenge to the absolute state). It’s a okay for blacks, Asians, and Hispanics to have roots (because their roots are conducive to the totalitarianism), but white roots are rotten to the core (with racism, bigotry, misogyny, etc.) and therefore, must be cut off, ‘by any means necessary’. We must all be ashamed of our traditions and reject Western civilization in favor of a modern form of rationalistic primitivism. Well it’s Rousseau I guess. That’s their guiding star, perhaps even more so than Marx. Sprinkle in a liberal dose of Hobbes, Gramsci and Alinski and you more or less have the complete recipe of modern Leftist insanity.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-science-sars-cov2.html
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.05.20207241v3.full-text
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/learning/whats-going-on-in-this-graph-flatten-the-curve.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/ (ik this one has them all recover, but unfortunately that isn’t reality)
At the beginning of the pandemic I was also wary of how much people were freaking out over it. I too thought I was a rebel by not staying at home or wearing a mask. After reading the scientific studies, however, I realized that hundreds of thousands could die social distancing and wearing a mask is the best option. It’s not only the elderly, but the immune compromised. One estimate had deaths at over 2 million. These articles and statistics have very useful information, and more can be found on the internet. I know we can’t completely stop the spreading and the deaths, but if we can flatten the curve, hospitals will have room to help the sick. We just have to be sure we don’t get a false sense of security from them. Masks aren’t that much of a bother either. Surgeons have always worn them, and in a lot of Asia people wear masks to protect others whenever they have a cold or the flu. Besides, a practical tool for safety shouldn’t be political. We’ve made a disease into a red vs blue thing, but really we just all need to come together like a family and do what we can to save lives. I am sorry that you’ve received such a high level of judgment for not wearing a mask; nobody should scream ‘murderer’ at anyone or wish death to them, but masks honestly aren’t that bad of an idea.
Julia, I’m beginning to think you’re a bot. I mean, really.
https://media1.giphy.com/media/QXE2N55T7UTJmzpHai/giphy.gif
Not a bot lmao. Idk why I’m on here though, I’m not even conservative; not that it’s good to only talk to people who hold our same views, but a conservative blog is so far from my cup of tea. If I hadn’t stumbled across your page while reading about the 2nd wave feminist movement, I wouldn’t be here. Never mind tho.
The whole “flatten the curve” thing was just a bridge too far, Julia. And hospitals are virtually empty now – have been for a long while. So if you’re not a bot, I do indeed apologize, but sheesh, please try to break out of the WaPo/NYT/CDC mindset. You don’t have to believe me, of course, but I try to urge people who only consume mainstream lefty news to simply see what the other side is saying. I guarantee there so much you haven’t heard. It’s smart. It’s scientific. It’s moral. It’s logical. And it’s fair. Check out this thread on my FB page if you’d like to see some of the arguments against wu-flu mania with some great informational links therein. And please don’t lecture me about “knowing both sides. “I know what the “other side” is saying; I must navigate as normal a possible human existence and try to thrive within the parameters of the dystopian hellscape the “other side” creates and undergirds every single day. It is status quo, but the truth is not. So I urge you too look beyond the headlines, look beyond the Old Grey Lady. And I’m not sure I’d call myself conservative, as I don’t wanna conserve much of what Murica is selling these days. Honestly, I wanna tear most of it out root and branch.
https://www.facebook.com/dissidentmama/posts/1576938545846753
Just wanted to say sorry if I offended you about the mask thing; I tried to be respectful, but I can see how that could’ve crossed a line for you. My local hospital recently announced that if it gets anymore patients it would have to start turning people away, so I’ve been concerned. Anyway, sorry if that was triggering. There is so much hate and disagreement in our country, and the last thing I want to do is spread more of that this Christmas season.
You seem kind, Julia. I’m not offended; I just like debate. So Invite you to stick around and keep sharing your thoughts. I hope you had a blessed Christmas.
P.S. What’s the name of your local hospital? I’d be interested to look into their being so full and the reasons for that.