This is a guest post by Dr Gary Sidley, former NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist and co-founder of Smile Free, about the powerful new short film ‘Masking Humanity’.
Misguided infection control may have motivated some of our overlords but others were drunk on power and manipulating various forms of compliance was a fix they did not want to let go of.
Yep. For the overlords, was mostly about compliance. What was appalling was how many people did it willingly to virtue signal that they were one of the ‘good’ ones. I know this because college educated people were running and biking alone with masks on. A modicum of independent thought would have revealed the uselessness of doing that. It was a performance. The level of compliance in DC truly shocked me. It was like seeing the Nazi youth form in real time. I seriously suspect a directive to state employed individuals to model and spread the behavior. Again - everyone wore masks OUTDOORS even when they were alone. Can you imagine how dirty those bandannas and black masks got? Black masks instead of surgical white? I seriously suspect it was a double signal: ‘I’m one of the virtuous resisters!’ (Who just happens to make six figures working for the man.) Fuck all of those people. Seriously.
I am astounded that people still wear those stupid masks. We have a lady in our service at church who regularly spends most of get time masked. Something to do with the person she looks after as an NDIS helper. (NDIS is our disability cash cow in Australia).
I had a huge row with the receptionist at my doctors because I confessed to the tail end of a sinus infection. A mask and an isolation room was to be my fate till the doctor intervened.
They are still requiring masks at medical facilities during winter respiratory season every year (November-March) in Santa Clara County, California. It seems they plan on doing this forever. It includes nursing homes.
I really wish this would get more publicity. If someone enters a nursing home in November, there is a good chance that they will die without seeing faces again.
Misguided infection control may have motivated some of our overlords but others were drunk on power and manipulating various forms of compliance was a fix they did not want to let go of.
Yep. For the overlords, was mostly about compliance. What was appalling was how many people did it willingly to virtue signal that they were one of the ‘good’ ones. I know this because college educated people were running and biking alone with masks on. A modicum of independent thought would have revealed the uselessness of doing that. It was a performance. The level of compliance in DC truly shocked me. It was like seeing the Nazi youth form in real time. I seriously suspect a directive to state employed individuals to model and spread the behavior. Again - everyone wore masks OUTDOORS even when they were alone. Can you imagine how dirty those bandannas and black masks got? Black masks instead of surgical white? I seriously suspect it was a double signal: ‘I’m one of the virtuous resisters!’ (Who just happens to make six figures working for the man.) Fuck all of those people. Seriously.
I am astounded that people still wear those stupid masks. We have a lady in our service at church who regularly spends most of get time masked. Something to do with the person she looks after as an NDIS helper. (NDIS is our disability cash cow in Australia).
I had a huge row with the receptionist at my doctors because I confessed to the tail end of a sinus infection. A mask and an isolation room was to be my fate till the doctor intervened.
It’s an appalling carry over from covid.
They are still requiring masks at medical facilities during winter respiratory season every year (November-March) in Santa Clara County, California. It seems they plan on doing this forever. It includes nursing homes.
https://publichealth.santaclaracounty.gov/diseases/covid/health-order-requiring-use-face-masks-patient-care-areas-health-care-delivery
I really wish this would get more publicity. If someone enters a nursing home in November, there is a good chance that they will die without seeing faces again.