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.
You are right, it is sad that previous generations gave up everything including their lives and we cant band together and tell businesses no. Everyone of these mandates would fall in weeks if not days if employees just in unison said no we are not doing it. These CEO and office suite people can barely put their shoes on let alone do the work the people do. When these air flight mandates come up late September if just 10-15% reduction of people flying would bring these companies to their knees. The airline are always right on the edge of the cliff. A boycott of any magnitude would push them over.
And the joke is on us, because people DO claim to know this--the simplicity of the solution, I mean. The problem isn't a lack of knowledge. It's a lack of courage. :(
Probably a wrong choice of a word as the last 4 years have proven their are no imagined threats - they're all real. Who would have believed in 2019 if you said you will be required to wear a mask - that would have been an imagined threat. 2020 made it a real one.
Correct, Yet not one of those resulted in shutdowns, mandatory jabs or masks. Which would have been an imagined risk to rights prior to covid - which now we know is no deadlier than a bad flu year
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
You are right, it is sad that previous generations gave up everything including their lives and we cant band together and tell businesses no. Everyone of these mandates would fall in weeks if not days if employees just in unison said no we are not doing it. These CEO and office suite people can barely put their shoes on let alone do the work the people do. When these air flight mandates come up late September if just 10-15% reduction of people flying would bring these companies to their knees. The airline are always right on the edge of the cliff. A boycott of any magnitude would push them over.
And the joke is on us, because people DO claim to know this--the simplicity of the solution, I mean. The problem isn't a lack of knowledge. It's a lack of courage. :(
Unfortunately mandating masks, jabs or anything else is not imagined threats to our rights, they are a real threat to our rights and our health.
Probably a wrong choice of a word as the last 4 years have proven their are no imagined threats - they're all real. Who would have believed in 2019 if you said you will be required to wear a mask - that would have been an imagined threat. 2020 made it a real one.
Correct, Yet not one of those resulted in shutdowns, mandatory jabs or masks. Which would have been an imagined risk to rights prior to covid - which now we know is no deadlier than a bad flu year