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A lot of the compliance has more to do with fear of the consequences of NOT complying than it does with a lack of understanding that masks don't work, though. I know many who "knew better" and who yet still wore a mask. Some said is was just "easier" and "not worth the fight" that they feared might ensue if they were to try to enter a store (or wherever) without one. Some didn't want to take on their employers and risk losing their livelihoods--so, again," "not worth the fight," even if they knew that what they were doing was nothing more than a social control measure. I think it's all a matter of perspective. As a nation we chose the temporary comfort, not realizing that there are some things which, once lost, are harder to replace than others. And it certainly didn't help that we had a president who was modeling submission to social control rather than resistance to it by putting on a mask and calling it the "patriotic" thing to do. It wasn't patriotic. It was idiotic.

https://www.voicesofnebraska.com/silent-no-more/why_is_no_one_talking_about_this_mass_formation_psychosis

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