Will you continue to wear a mask in public after Jan 27th?

[Ari]

I'm now flying again for business, gave it up as much as I possibly could during the mask mandates on aircraft. Dreading the thought of them bringing them back.

Not keen on flying at the best of times, being forced to strap a pointless bit of cloth across my face and seeing everyone else muzzled up makes it even worse!

[Ari]

I've got an overnight flight back from the USA later this year, VA upper class fortunately, so lie flat beds. I did wonder whether, were a mask mandate in place, people would actually be expected to try and sleep wearing the wretched things?

Fortunately on VA, it's dark and you lie with your feet toward the passageway and head toward the bulkhead, so hopefully it would be difficult to spot a dirty filthy unmasker...

[Ari]

https://twitter.com/dianamchard/status/15632024606...

[Ari]

Electro1980 said:

Some people have just become properly frightened and/or wanting to control others.

Yup. Both of those things.

[Ari]

HTP99 said:

Masks are bks, BoJo has been caught not wearing one unless there was a photo op; on one went, "Queen" Nicola not wearing one at Prince Phillips memorial yet there was a mask mandate in Scotland at the time, she was caught out not wearing one in Scotland too.

Exactly the same with Biden, there's been videos of him behind the scenes without one, then popping one on to walk on stage, taking 5 steps to a lectern and taking it off to speak. Utter theatre, the lot of it, yet it gets lapped up by so many!

[Ari]

Published by the British Medical Journal, yet another study fails to find any benefit to face covering mask mandates.

https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2022/08/23/archd...

Conclusions: We found no significant differences in SARS-CoV-2 transmission due to FCM mandates in Catalonian schools. Instead, age was the most important factor in explaining the transmission risk for children attending school.

HOW THIS STUDY MIGHT AFFECT RESEARCH, PRACTICE OR POLICY
FCM mandate for children attending school is based on insufficient scientific evidence.

[Ari]

CarCrazyDad said:

Where's that Gnome fellow?? What would he have to say.

This guy's gone a bit quiet too (post taken at random, couldn't be bothered to find one of his properly ranty ones).

TDK-C60 said:

Thanks to the majority that acted responsibly, took precautions, got jabbed and wore a mask now and then - a worse outcome was avoided.

It won't stop history remembering anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers being at odds with the science and evidence, but hopefully they will be able to give up their obsession with conspiracy theories,

[Ari]

CarCrazyDad said:

I can't believe I used to wear masks and believe the worked too... I'm glad the conversation on here helped me to change my mind.

To be fair, we were told that they did by people we should have been able to trust.

There was the small matter that they'd been saying the exact opposite right up until he government bowed to public demand for them, but when they did flip, it was all very convincing for a bit.

Then there was the small issue of the basic fact that they didn't work, but by then the narrative was (and still is) firmly embedded.

[Ari]

superlightr said:

HTP99 said:

garyhun said:

Tyre Smoke said:

We all know that the point if wearing masks was to make people feel 'safe' from this disease that (won't) kill you.

It was fking stupid whatever the reason. In my opinion it was more about government ring seen to do something.

Yep, very visible, cheap and easy, instant thing to do, to make it look like something was being done, simple as.

it was more sinister than that in my view. It showed that if you didnt wear one then you were "outside of the herd" there is innate pressure not to be "different" on everyone, to fit in. If you didnt wear one then you were easily identified and shunned told you were hurting society by your peers and govt. This then morphed into pressure and compulsion to have the Jab with threats of loss of travel and jobs and being vilified as a granny killer.

remember there was no natural immunity/recovery or protection only the Jab could save you.

Fek them and fek them harder and longer. Utter distaste and contempt at what our Govt did.

There was, by their own admittance, a lot of 'psyops' being used by the government, urged on by a team of scientists giddy with sudden importance and power, some with their own agendas.

However what makes it even worse was the the so called opposition was simply calling for even more of it!

There is simply nowhere to turn politically if you object to this kind of nonsense.

[Ari]

This is never going away is it..?

[Ari]

vixen1700 said:

It more the big U.S. studio productions as the insurance companies insist on it.

This is what I mean about it'll never go away. Too many big corporations or health organisations or whatever, absolutely wedded to the idea of the things.

Hopefully most of us will be allowed to go about our daily lives without the pantomime (imagine says that 3 years ago - that hopefully we would be allowed not to wear masks in normal life!), but it will take very little for airlines, health organisations, public transport or whoever to start insisting on them again because it's an easy win. No cost whatsoever yet be seen to be 'caring'.

[Ari]

BabySharkDD said:

Reminds me of this

I remember that, and the absolute fury from the mask lovers about 'mocking the disabled', despite there being zero suggestion in that picture that the woman on the mobility scooter was disabled!

The whole mask thing has become all about politicised point scoring.

[Ari]

Meanwhile, in Dublin this weekend (fortunately, most people it seems, didn't 'care'). Interesting statement at the bottom - citation clearly needed!

[Ari]

Gary C said:

Grrr

Just checked in online and found that our holiday is using easyjet for the flights ( ) and that wearing a bloody mask is mandatory on their flights.

tts.

Where are you going? I was on Easyjet last week (France). Masks were mandatory for boarding apparently, and optional once on board. No one bothered for either, beyond the usual occasional believer saving the world one mask at a time.

[Ari]

I'm reminded of one of the many mask fans (who all seem to have gone very quiet since predicting armageddon following the mask mandate being 'recklessly' dropped) claiming that his daughter was wearing a mask as she was 'into the Japanese scene'. It seems she discovered the 'Japanese scene' just after covid became a thing in this country, which is quite a coincidence, but none the less, as has been mentioned, it certainly does seem to be a thing with orientals.

[Ari]

devnull said:

It was a beautiful sunny and mildly breezy day where I live by the sea yesterday. What did I see? A lone chap walking along the coast path, fully blue masked up, complete with the little twist in the straps to pull it tighter against his face.

Would love to know what goes through these people's heads.

I kind of miss the old days when a virulent PH masketeer would have swooped in to angrily accuse you of lying.

Unless you took a photo of course, in which case you'd have been angrily accused of being 'creepy'.

Ahh, good times.

[Ari]

KAgantua said:

Ari said:

devnull said:

It was a beautiful sunny and mildly breezy day where I live by the sea yesterday. What did I see? A lone chap walking along the coast path, fully blue masked up, complete with the little twist in the straps to pull it tighter against his face.

Would love to know what goes through these people's heads.

I kind of miss the old days when a virulent PH masketeer would have swooped in to angrily accuse you of lying.

Unless you took a photo of course, in which case you'd have been angrily accused of being 'creepy'.

Ahh, good times.

And how do you know the person wearing the mask wasn't registered disabled

What on earth difference would that have made?

And why the wink?

[Ari]

Donbot said:

Parrot for Ari.

Please explain?

[Ari]

Fair enough, missed that.

Whenever you see people banging on about masks on Twitter (and some are absolutely militant about the things, and the fact that every single person ought to wear one all the time in public, it's really quite bizarre), someone always trots out 'what about disabled/immunocompromised people?', as if being one of those things gives your mask (and those around you) magical powers to actually be effective. So I assumed it was one of those types of comments.

[Ari]

Originally it was 'you're killing everyone by not wearing a mask, manbaby yadada'

Then when that was roundly proven to be incorrect it was 'You should wear one to reassure nervous people'. That was pointed out to be nonsense.

Then it was 'You should wear one to be polite'. Again, utter guff.

So now they're reduced to this as a way to try and criticise (and the irony is, if you don't post a photo, you simply get told by them that you're lying).

The bottom line is that they don't like to feel they were completely taken in by all this mask nonsense, so it's much easier (if rather pathetic) to try and attack those that have been pointing out the absurdity of it from the beginning, and this is all they have left to do it with.