Who dictates you wear a mask?
Which of those do you owe obedience to?
What would it look like if you were to be as effective as possible
in dismantling these mask mandates?
The Hidden History Of Mask
Mandates
Long after the “flatten the
curve” talking point had died, long after the ventilator shortage was proven
non-existent, long after corona deaths had peaked, and long after the media had
moved onto the “Deaths don’t matter anymore, now we need to reduce cases,”
talking point, on July 2, 2020, the issue of Covid fear and heavy-handed
approaches was exacerbated by the CEOs of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business
Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, American Council of Life
Insurers, and the National Retail Federation, when they annoyingly sent a
letter to many elected officials demanding a national face mask order.
These
demands remain part of our lives. Far from being the work of private
businesses, these mask orders rely on the flawed CDC mandates (governmental),
flawed county mandates (governmental), and leaders in these organizations are
calling on both Congress and the White House to force greater restrictions on
the American people.
If
this were private business invoking their property rights, that would be one
matter. This is not that. And even in that situation, it is well within the
role of a customer in this age to take it upon themselves to offer feedback at
the businesses they visit, feedback delivered as peacefully and creatively as a
customer desires to get his point across.
You Will Not Fool Me
You
will not fool me. You will not cow me with property rights arguments to
convince me that it is unjust to pressure or educate Walmart management and to
ensure defense for our most vulnerable and those least able to wear a mask safely.
I believe deeply in property rights. You will not use my deeply beliefs
against me for your specious ends. I will not be fooled by a socialist
pretending that they understand property rights or Christianity to selectively
fill me with cowardice. Now is a time more than ever to act with decisiveness.
These Organizations Are A
Wonderful Starting Place
Please remember the date July
2, 2020, when the most powerful in American society and globally weren’t
satisfied at bullying you in their own stores with mindless face mask policies
— that do not work and may help to actually spread Covid, as pointed out in the
May 2020 edition of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Disease they
were more than willing to take it a step further and to ensure that all law
enforcement at all level of government were roped into the service of their
face mask suppositions against the non-maskholes as if the unmasked were common
terrorists.
Was
there really a need to nationally call the police info service on this matter?
Might we be able to agree that step was one too far?
That’s
a hard date for me to psychologically get past. The party of Davos had a plan
for you and by some miracle they have yet to see it implemented on you, you
American serf.
They
do not want your free markets, they want big business to be dominant and small
business to shrivel. They do not want you to find the best goods at the best
price on ever corner of the globe, they want to give you managed trade that
they deceitfully call “free.”
So
much wrong about the present moment is wrapped up in July 2, 2020.
Given the demands the
National Federation of Retailers has attempted to place on their membership
over this topic, and which was encouraged by plenty of their members, any of
their one hundred largest members would be an
excellent place to make your impact felt.
The companies that the National Federation of Retailers applauded loudest and
earliest wouldn’t be a bad place to start: Walmart, Best Buy, BJ’s
Wholesale Club, Apple, Qurate Retail Group, and Costco.
But
how does one make an impact?
That
is the question.
At The Heart Of Corporate Mask
Mandates Are Insurance Companies
In
the world of risk mitigation, insurance is a valuable tool. Insurance has grown
so important that every business that does not have half-a-dozen policies in
place is clearly seen as being foolhardy in the year 2020. Because it is well
recognized that an insurance company could step in and refuse to protect any
company seen as behaving lax around Covid, the greatest virtue signaling has
been engaged in by corporations in 2020 on the topic.
While
local counties have the power to shut down a business — a great fear for a
small business owner in 2020, the fear that is much harder to recover from is
the vast destruction that can be done by ending up in court without an insurer
having your back against the judicial system. This is a destructive risk to
businesses large and small.
Accordingly,
the virtue signaling of 2020 is clearly done with consideration for how a judge
or jury would evaluate their behavior. The virtue signaling and plausible
deniability is everywhere in their mandates and policies.
How To Virtue Signal For A
Judge & Jury
Once
you start to see it, by just reading any of the corporate policies you can hear
the voice of a lawyer that sounds a lot like this:
“Look Judge, we wrote mandatory
in bold letters 3 times in one sentence on this sign at our Fayetteville,
Arkansas location. Three times!! In one sentence!! Have you ever seen an act of
care and compliance like that from a large corporation before? This is a
corporation that cares about people so much that it will butcher the English
language to show how much we care.”
Some
signs sound like that. Other policies sound more like this:
“Listen your honor, what the
other side is arguing — about us being soft on Covid-19 — is preposterous. We
are vehemently opposed to the rights of all disabled people who can’t wear
masks. We denied 18 disabled veterans on ventilators access to our Oxnard,
California store on one day in December because even though we had made
arrangements with the Make a Wish Foundation weeks before, they were physically
unable to fit a face mask over their ventilators. Ladies and gentlemen of the
jury, that’s how much we care about flattening the curve! Are we jerks? Yes. Do
we care about saving lives? Even more so. Being diligent and jerky
curve-flatteners is the only thing we are guilty of.”
Other policies in which human
dignity is sacrificed on the altar of legalism sound more like this:
“Look your honor. We care so
much about protecting customers from SARS-COV-2, the virus believed to cause
COVID-19 that we instituted mandatory body cavity PCR exams to all employees on
the 1st and 13th day of every month in case they might have localized
asymptomatic cases. That’s how much we care.”
Your Life Will Be As
Tyrannically Ruled As You Allow It To Be
That
isn’t far from the reality of 2020, but I don’t expect that kind of absolute
divorce from reason until at least 2021. While I cannot predict the future, one
detail is certain: if this level of tyranny is permitted in your life, this is
the level of tyranny that you will find in your life.
Perhaps
I may have the honor of turning some people away from the abyss on which we
totter.
The
question remains: “What would the ideal protest look like to be able to
communicate a message to insurance companies?”
BLM Is Trite — There Is A More
Important, More Widely Feared Variable In Our Society
BLM
is manageable. You pay them some hush money, and they go away.
The
mafia is manageable. You pay them some protection money, and they go away.
But
the courts are never predictably reasonable. You have no idea how big a
judgment could be. In the midst of that legal uncertainty, a few dozen people
getting dizzy while wearing face masks can add up pretty quickly.
Insurance
companies know how much risk there is in exposing themselves to litigation and
courts. That’s why there is so much effort made to by insurance companies to
stay out of litigation through settlement, bluster, and guile.
Litigation
is costly and unpredictable. Get an insurance company to recognize a new
litigation risk, and it will pay attention quickly. Get an insurance company to
pay attention quickly and the holder of its insurance policy will pay attention
quickly. Any new insurance carve out around face masks and face mask policies
in corporate settings will quickly die. Their elimination will become a best
practice.
This
is the soft underbelly of the face mask mandates.
The Million Face March — What
Would The Ideal Face Mask Protest Of 2020 Look Like?
What would the ideal protest
of 2020 really look like? I’ve written before about the CDC’s own
epidemiological journal’s coverage of the masks in May 2020 and their
unequivocal statement that masks do not only not work but that they
may have a negative impact on the user. That’s from a CDC journal, a
groundbreaking article that has been largely ignored. Many others demonstrate
that mask wearing in fact causes harm. The so called “Danish study” of November 2020 has a very large margin
of error saying that face mask wearing may be anywhere from 46% more protective
against Covid-19 to 23% more likely to spread Covid-19.
This
doesn’t even begin to take into account the additional, massive harm that comes
from the foolish notion that wearing a ten-cent polypropylene mask from Wuhan
province is the proper way to protect the magnificent structures that are the
human body. Preposterous. Utterly preposterous.
The
mandatory wearing of masks by healthy people in the general population is not
“science.” It is superstition.
What would a free man do if he
really wanted to never again hear any more superstitious nonsense about a mask
in order to go about his daily life?
Well. He’d communicate to
decision makers in a language they understand and in a tone they couldn’t
ignore.
Unfortunately, Most People
Don’t Speak The Language Of Such Decision-Makers: But You Can
Unfortunately,
most people don’t speak the language of such decisions-makers. Corporate
America is full of decision-makers. Some are human. An increasing number are
non-human. The human decision-makers like to be called “stakeholders” and to be
invited to all sorts of inconsequential meetings, while staying as far away
from decisions of consequence as possible, for sticking their necks out may
spell a precipitous end to their careers.
Some
of the human decision-makers involved barely seem to speak English. This makes
it hard to communicate with them as an outsider. They may have grown up in the
United States, but have learned that they can hide the fact that they don’t
know much about much of anything behind an awful lot of jargon. At some point
the use of excess jargon is just a lot of puffery meant to communicate
exclusion to another party.
Far
beyond that though, as mentioned, a lot of times, especially in corporate
America, humans aren’t even as involved in the decision-making process as
physical attendance in meetings might suggest. Decisions are increasingly made
by formulas and algorithms. Placing formulas, algorithms, and accounting
processes in charge of decision-making is said to provide “data,” but in
reality these algorithms are just another word for “a guess.”
In
the halls of such monolithic corporations, almost everyone who sticks around
long is covering their ass and no one is looking to disrupt their career by
sticking their necks out in a way that doesn’t bring them lots of long term
benefit. Someone like that always needs someone else to blame if things go
wrong.
In a
different era, they had to always have a lackey around who could be blamed.
Nurturing a lackey takes effort and some ability to feign compassion. With the
advent of more advanced and accessible computing, there is no need to blame a
lackey for a failure when you can just credit an algorithm for that same
failure.
Communicating
in a way that an algorithm is able to notice is the key to communicating a
message to a decision-maker in corporate America.
That
means you, as a free man, have got to communicate in a way that the algorithms
will notice. It can’t be a blip on the screen. It has to goose the algorithm
something major, and that, in turn, will communicate in a tone that will convey
clear data to the humans that they can use to communicate to others in their
organizations.
If you
can do that — goose the algorithm — then you can capably communicate in their
technocratic language and you can generate action that isn’t accompanied by
risk to the human actor, risk being one of the most vile things he can be
accused of taking in a corporate environment in our risk averse culture.
What behavior can you turn to
that would generate that kind of outcome?
I
could tell you, but I’m sure you wouldn’t want to hear it.
I Could Tell You, But I’m Sure
You Wouldn’t Want To Hear It
It’s
something a little “black hat,” and it is something that an upstanding person
might do.
Unless
by upstanding you mean “He who doesn’t need freedom like he needs air in his
lungs.”
Unless
by upstanding you mean “He who cares so deeply what others think of him that he
forsakes himself and family.”
Unless
by upstanding you mean “He who will not shout down a lynch mob because he does
not want to uphold any values that could anger or offend.”
That’s
not how I define upstanding.
“Twain wrote: I watched a man shout down a
lynch mob and make it go home. Where is that moral man today?”
I am
that man. Are you?
Sometimes Intelligence Is All
It Takes To Beat The Most Powerful, The Most Brutal, And The Most
Well-Established
Once
upon a time red-coated soldiers marched through the present-day eastern United
States like they owned the place. Ten-, twenty-, maybe thirty-years of training
may have gone into each one of those soldiers. Their marching was said to be a
thing to behold: much like the Prussian soldiers of the era, much like any
well-organized, heavily-structured army.
George
Washington had a less disciplined army. Napoleon as well. Many times throughout
history, these less disciplined, less rigid armies, defeated far better
equipped, well-trained forces.
It
was gentlemanly to spend twenty years learning the details of war and learning
to assume formations with a sense of duty and propriety.
It
was cowardly to wage war any differently. At least that’s what those set in
their ways had to say as they nursed their wounds and reflected on their
massive losses. To their dying day, there was little more that a soldier raised
in the old school might say about the upstart who handed him a resounding
defeat.
It
was not about age either. It was about an ingrained and inflexible nature.
Sometimes, the clever upstart might be much older in years, the inflexible
lieutenant, much younger in years.
A
bunch of poorly trained commoners with heart and a clever willingness have
often handed defeat to a more established group.
And
I’d tell you how to do that with these face masks, but no one would want to
hear it.
American Comfort: I Really
Would Tell You How To Do That With Face Masks, But No One Would Want To Hear It
Too
many Americans have grown too cowardly. They really care what people think of
them. Having such low self-esteem that you care what others think about you is
the very essence of political correctness. It is at the very essence of virtue
signaling, and it explains so well why these behaviors are so present in this
era.
Many
won’t do what might be looked at as negative by someone else. Too many
Americans have lost any sense of self-esteem. They just are so concerned with
what others think of them that they don’t seem to have any conception of what
they actually want out of life, let alone how to achieve it. If you have no
self-esteem you spend a lot of time waiting for other people to hand you
things.
With
so many people being so unable to identify their own wants, this leaves little
ground on which to build recognition of sound values and the courageous defense
of them in life.
A
two-year-old child knows what she wants and knows how to reach out and grab it.
From birth, we have that self-knowledge in us. The next two or three decades of
her life, or more are spent indoctrinating that two-year-old to make sure she
can never again so simply identify and obtain her deepest wants. Nurturing of
the clarity of spirit of the two year old in each of us is vital. Instead our
culture is set on doing the opposite to each previous child.
Too
many Americans have grown too comfortable. There’s so little sense of what it
means to be free. If you don’t need freedom like you need air in your lungs,
you aren’t gonna get it. Because honestly, freedom isn’t very easy to come by.
You need to go through all kinds of machinations to achieve it. It’s a lot
easier to tell yourself that you are plenty comfortable and that the discomfort
that freedom might require just isn’t worth the trade off.
That’s
where a lot of Americans are. So I am not that far off when I say that you
probably don’t want to know how to put an end to the face mask orders, because
you’re not gonna do it.
But
there’s a few people out there who aren’t like that. They need freedom like
they need air in their lungs. They don’t care what someone else defines as
dignified or upstanding. They know for themselves what those words mean. And
they do the rest of us a favor by being someone who needs freedom so badly.
Because they make room for others to live free around them, and at such little
cost to the benefactor of that more free way of living.
Sometimes
they may even take it a little further and speak up for others, creating a
Niemollerian buffer around themselves.
This
is how a handful of freemen can be enough to make a vast place into a free
land.
The Remnant Walks Among Us
In
Jeremiah 5:1 God says to Jeremiah “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem,
look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one
person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.”
In
the book of Genesis, God and Abraham tangle with each other until God says that
he will spare Sodom if he can find the righteous.
God
speaks to Isaiah of the remnant, the tiny group of the righteous who bring
society back to the proper course. Scripture is clear that it takes but a small
committed group to accomplish great things.
That’s
how human society functions.
Those
few among us who are willing to go the extra mile for our own freedom do a
great service to anyone wanting to live life free.
Some
people will write me quoting scripture, saying that they won’t feel good going
into a store without a face mask. They will speak of how undignified my method
of ending mandatory masking is.
That’s
between you and your maker and does not involve me. The Bible I read tells me
to stop looking at the speck in another person’s eye and to take note of the
log in my own.
I can
do no other than to live the best I can, the freest I can and in every moment.
Have You Ever Felt Dizzy In The
Grocery Store?
Many
people have felt dizzy in the store. Many people have felt dizzy wearing face
masks. I know exactly how most Americans react to that dizziness or queasiness.
They buck themselves up and keep walking. They might cut their shopping trip
short. They might steady themselves against the meat counter or a dairy
display. They might lift their mask for a minute as their catch their breath.
They aren’t creating a scene though. They’d like to go as unnoticed as possible
in a moment like that. That’s what most Americans do.
Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone,
See How The Other Half Lives
There
are plenty of Americans who behave very differently. They want someone else to
see their pain. They want attention. They want someone else to come along and
dust them off. I’d like you to play a game for a few minutes in which you live
more like this other half lives.
What’s
it like to be them?
How
do you behave differently in the face of adversity if you are channeling them?
Behave
a little more like them during your next masked trip to the store, and you will
have performed some excellent civil disobedience for the world. That’s all it
takes: be less like yourself and more like the other half for twenty minutes.
Just Take A Seat
If
you feel dizzy wearing a mask on your next trip to the store, take a seat.
Choose a nice, safe place to sit down. As filthy as the floor is, sitting on
the floor is significantly more dramatic of a place to sit than leaning against
the dairy case or sitting on the edge of the dairy case.
Sitting
on the floor says “Something is very wrong.”
The
effectiveness of this technique will be dependent on how long you can draw this
out.
A
fellow shopper will come.
You: “I
just feel so dizzy. So confused.”
Not enough.
An
employee will come.
You: “I
just feel so dizzy. So confused.”
Not enough.
Everyone
around you is going along to get along. EVERYONE. Just like the behavior
described at Nuremberg, everyone is plugging along, following orders. No one is
thinking or using morality or values. You need to break them out of their mold.
Eventually.
A manager will come. Now you are getting warmer.
And
it may take a few minutes of you sitting on the floor for the manager to come
because plenty of managers will drop what they are doing to enforce a face mask
mandate, but few will drop what they are doing to rush to the aid of a customer
in need.
Even
though the manager has now appeared, it’s still not enough. Keep drawing it
out.
Manager:
“Sir, are you okay? Can I get you some water? Would you like to take off your
mask?”
You:
“But masks are supposed to be safe for us. I’m so confused.”
Manager:
“Sir, are you okay? What’s your name? Can I get you some water? Would you like
to take off your mask?”
You:
“How can you want me to take it off. Your policy says it’s mandatory.”
Manager:
“Sir, do you need me to call the paramedics?”
You: “I
just feel so dizzy and confused.”
Manager:
“Sir, do you need me to call the paramedics.”
Yes: “I
don’t need you to call the paramedics, I need you to use your logic. I just
feel so dizzy and confused.”
When
you’ve had enough, take off your mask.
Ask
for two containers of your favorite beverage “to calm myself down.”
Sit a
good long time.
You: “I
was so dizzy and confused.”
Manager: “What’s
your name, Sir?”
You: “I
was just so dizzy and confused.”
Manager:
“What’s your phone number, Sir.”
You: “I
was just so dizzy and confused…I never realized how bad these face masks were.
I’m so embarrassed.”
Manager: “What’s
your name, Sir?”
You: “My
name? That’s not important. What’s your name Mr Manager? Because I’m going to
be sure you haven’t heard the last from me.”
Take Note Of An Important
Detail
As
you’re on the ground, commenting about how confused you are in your face mask,
look at the male employee around you with the most severely quivering hand.
Listen for the the female employee around you with the most seriously quivering
voice.
Those
are the greatest maskholes in the group. At least they were until ten minutes
ago. You’ve today ended their enforcement of the mask mandate. You may have
ended that whole corporation’s enforcement of the mask mandate.
Your
ten-minute display of humanity, in which you put on display, in a very gentle
way, the ills of one-size-fits all medical approaches, is enough to crush the
hold of the trillion dollar media machine on their mind on this one
topic. And it promises to have far more reaching consequences.
Is it
illness?
Is it honesty?
Is it performance art?
Call
it what you will. Depending on the scenario I described — sitting down and
maximizing the opportunity instead of perilously and dangerously teetering out
of the store —- I would call it all three.
And I
would call it one of the most effective things you can be doing today to free
others.
This Isn’t For You. This Is A
Gift For Someone Else
You
don’t need freeing. I have no question about that. The type of person who reads
this piece is well on their way. All you need to do is to identify your
boundaries, communicate your boundaries, and defend your boundaries to free
yourself. Wearing the mask frees you. Rejecting the vaccine frees you. Standing
up to people who will force orders upon you frees you.
If
you can do that, you don’t need to do things like this to be free. This is not
about you though. This is a gift to the rest of society. This is a gift from
you to them, pushing back on the mandates on behalf of your fellow man.
This
is you doing something very different than many of the last three generations
of people have done: spending the capital of the trust fund of liberty.
Instead, this is you decisively and resoundingly determining to do the very
opposite: to add to the trust fund of liberty.
This
is you bringing an end to the mask mandates.
Bootstrapping, Stoic Americans
In Some Ways Make Mask Mandates Possible
The
vast majority of Americans want to be left alone and want to leave others
alone. That remains the American way to this day. As a result, most put on
their masks, deal with the medical consequences, and go through the masked part
of their day as quickly as they can.
In
sharp contrast to that behavior, a minority of Americans will howl and riot if
you merely address someone by the wrong gender.
As
little as such snowflakes have to teach anyone about wisdom, they have a great
deal to teach about political participation. When I hear a Georgia politician
say “Let’s let the election fraud go. I don’t want trouble with antifa at
the grocery store or outside my home at dinner time,” I know that the most
precious values are weak-handedly being sacrificed to miscreants undeserving of
them.
The
squeaky wheel gets the grease.
The Squeaky Wheel Gets The
Grease
We
know from the study of economics that human wants our infinite, resources
finite. There always has to be some way to ration resources. The more
government becomes involved in life, the less rational and market-based that
rationing becomes. The more government gets involved, the more it becomes about
squeaky wheels and vocal factions.
Now
is a time to swallow your pride and accept that the snowflakes might understand
a thing or two about getting the levers of power to do their bidding. It would
be a shame if this golden opportunity to expand human freedom were lost in the
face of personal hubris.
It’s
time to be a little more squeaky.
There Is Nowhere Left To Run
We
may have crossed the line into being a failed state. If we haven’t we are
close.
I
spent my twenties looking for a better place to run to. I spent my thirties
building a better place to run to.
Aside
from some pockets in the United States, there is nowhere left to run. The full
retreat has to stop.
I
can’t predict the future, but holding the line in the United States is
practically the best we’ve got. But why just hold the line? Advancing the line
is even better. If you can take down mask mandates by goosing the corporate
risk matrix, you have advanced freedom in our day.
The Joy Of Just Taking A Seat
In Your Mask
Take
a seat in your mask. Let it play out a while. A good long while. Let them squirm
a while. Let the manager squirm until you are pretty certain he’s going to
report it up the chain. Reporting it up the chain is when the most magnified
effects will result.
Sitting
on that floor, you’re going to see something. It’s conscience. It will come in
the form of a shaking hand. The biggest maskhole working in that store, the one
who has shouted down two dozen elderly women that month, in pompous
self-righteousness will find you on that floor and realize for the first time
ever that not everyone should be in a mask.
Morally,
this is a far cry from comprehending that everyone should not be forcibly
masked. But we aren’t there anymore, my friends.
Three
generations of Americans have spent the capital in our trust fund of liberty.
Targeted
civil disobedience is some of the best hope we have. There may be a time when
even this no longer works. Perhaps we can stop ourselves from getting to that
moment.
Perhaps
you can turn back the tide.
In
this way, with this tide, individuals acting on their own, in their own
individual capacity, one person at a time, one store at a time can flip the
risk algorithm and put an end to corporate masking mandates.
This
can be done today. One person at a time. One freedom cell at a time. No more is
needed. No conversation is needed. No help is needed. No permission is needed.
The
flipping of a corporate risk matrix can be fully controlled by the hands of one
person: an anonymous, lone customer who no one needs to know or even get the
name of.
The
mask mandates need sabotaging. And you are the person to do it.
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