The other day, I saw a woman in her late teens to early twenties walking her dog in a park near my house. She looked energetic and healthy, and she was exercising in a quiet bay park on a beautiful fall day.
And she wore a mask.
The strange thing about this is that a sight like this is in California, the California coast. With the exception of Sacramento and other urban enclaves, the state’s hinterland isn’t nearly as obsessed with masks as its wealthier coasts.
The Bay Area, where I live, probably has the densest population of mask-wearers, with Los Angeles a close second. In a Los Angeles Times study comparing mask use in Los Angeles County to Orange County, LA quickly beat out her OC. No surprises there.
The study also showed that women were more likely to wear masks than men. Based on my purely anecdotal observations, this also seems to be true.
What’s interesting and unsurprising about the Times’ investigation is that it took place more than two years ago, at a time when the Musk debate was at its hottest in California and around the world. Advocates worried about how someone not wearing a mask would kill Granny at Thanksgiving dinner if they didn’t change their reckless methods.
The company has barred non-compliant persons from entering the premises. In the words of many resisters, they were sometimes harassed and physically kicked out the door when they were allowed entry but still refused to wear “face diapers.” It was
Then, in 2021, the Masked Mafia received another tool to beat offenders: vaccines.get vaccinated When wear a mask When Lack of social distancing costs jobs, prevents children from attending school in person, and treats them like pariahs in many other ways.
But now everything has changed — to some extent anyway. It seems that we have entered an era of pleasure.
In his famous 60-minute interview at the Detroit Auto Show, Joe Biden declared the pandemic “over” and said, “No one is wearing a mask and everyone seems to be in pretty good shape. ‘ said. The president’s word, Gavin, who made a splashy announcement to lift his Covid emergency rules in California in 2023, signaled Democratic operatives across the country, including Governor Newsom.
However, some true Mask believers refuse to part with the N-95. Earlier this year, the San Jose Mercury News conducted its own survey, asking people in the “mask-friendly Bay Area” what they thought of the easing of restrictions in place at the time.
“Never lift,” said a hairstylist in the delta town of Antioquia. “That’s my opinion until Covid is completely eradicated.” Nicknamed the “Mask Nazi” for enforcing the mask rule mercilessly at his store, he felt the same. Another enthusiastic masker was outraged that people without masks or vaccinations were allowed into the store at all.
To be fair, many of the people interviewed for the article were very excited about the junk mask. They once considered themselves a morally virtuous majority, but now they are vastly outnumbered by Maskers.
And I hope their smugness is fading a bit too.
Today, as usual, government and public health guidance on masking is a web of confusing and contradictory claims. California’s official Covid site says it “strongly recommends” wearing masks indoors, but the CDC says whether or not to wear a mask depends on your “risk of exposure” to Covid. It was Anthony Fauci, the master flip-flop supposedly in charge of the country’s Covid policy.
In March 2020, when the debate about the pandemic and masks was just beginning, Fauci spoke clearly and clearly about masks in another famous 60 Minutes interview. “Now in America, people shouldn’t be walking around wearing masks,” he said.
He added, “There’s no reason to walk around wearing a mask. Wearing a mask during an outbreak might make people feel a little better and even block droplets, but it’s not as perfect protection as people think.” We cannot say that we provide
The soon-to-retire director of the National Institutes of Health quickly retracted this statement, only saying these things to keep the public from scooping up all the N-95 masks in stock like they once hoarded them in a toilet. I said. This makes them available to doctors and nurses who need them to treat sick patients.
So the man lied. He lied on purpose. And it wasn’t the last time he did so.
This belief in authority seems to be another characteristic of those who put faith in masks. I believe.
I hope the woman I saw at the park doesn’t. I hope she doesn’t believe what the authorities are telling her about masks or Covid or vaccines or frankly many other things. because it is ignorant.
