Last week, the Bundestag finally passed the Infection Protection Act drawn up by Karl Lauterbach and Marco Buschmann. By the time these latest regulations expire, it will have been around 1,100 days to flatten the curve, and there’s no promise that we’ll be done even then. The law primarily empowers the federal states to impose mask mandates during the winter-tyre season, between October 1st and Easter. At the end there were some final, insulting adjustments: The federal government withdrew the general mask mandates for airplanes, in exchange for German-wide FFP2 masking requirements at healthcare clinics.
We have been doing this for a very long time now. That is pretty much the only observation I have left in me. We have had two-and-a-half years of recurring all-day masking regimens for schoolchildren. We have had two-and-a-half years of masking in the hallways of our offices, but generally not at our desks. We have had two years of masking on the way to the toilet at the pub, but not at our tables. We have had two years of non-sealing FFP2 respirators instead of surgical masks, although we’ve known since the beginning that SARS-2 is transmitted primarily via aerosols. We have had two-and-a-half years of masks failing every natural experiment that they’ve been put to, two-and-a-half years of masks serving as a pretence to ban protests, two-and-a-half years of social anxiety and unnecessary arguments with confrontational terrified old people, two-and-a-half years of mandated social isolation and anonymity, and it has all been for nothing.
This Science Following upon which we’ve embarked, has been a curious experiment indeed. It amounts to an abdication of our own sense and reason, in favour of some nebulous superordinate authority that is the only true source of knowledge about the world. For millions and millions of people, masks simply work even when they don’t, because The Science says so, and the mandates are necessary to prevent infections, even when they cannot, because The Science says so. Following The Science has turned us into a society of dead-eyed zombie lunatics, robbed of every last intellectual immune defence against absurdity. That might be the main reason that all of the policies ushered in under the banner of The Science are so blatantly ineffective, irrational and contrary to all evidence. Anything that makes sense doesn’t need The Science. People can be convinced of its importance in their own minds.
More and more, I cannot bear the masks. Their use is contrary to a healthy and normal social life. I will probably finally leave mask-fetishising academia over this, that’s how much I can’t stand it. Wearing a mask is participating in an antisocial hygiene virus cult. It’s been devastating for me to watch older colleagues, whose opinion and expertise I respect, succumb to this irrational superstition. The mask is always donned with a slight embarrassed aversion of the eyes; if not enough people are wearing them, a few of the less mesmerised might opt out. The girls like brightly coloured green and red masks. If only one of them is masked, another girl might don one in solidarity. The men in suits prefer the black ones, which they store in their breast jacket pockets with old receipts and pens. The old ladies all have white masks that they bought at their local pharmacy on the corner, which they also wear outside, and for all I know in the shower too. You’re not allowed ever to mention any of this, or comment on how unbelievably stupid it all is.
Masks are evil because they frame everyone as a potential vector of disease, and force the healthy to act as if they were sick. They are a reminder to keep several meters distance at all times, to sanitise your hands, and to engage in all the other stupid pandemic liturgies that evaporated this summer during our very brief mask reprieve. Masks are socially corrosive, and on top of that they’re ugly, they smell terrible, they’re physically uncomfortable, and—biggest of ironies for an alleged hygiene product—their daily use and re-use is just disgusting. But none of this matters, because Science.
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Brilliant. Nobody could have put it better.
Masks are a symbol of self-hatred.
The one thing you can conclude about people who wear masks when there is no obligation to do so is that they despise themselves and by extension others.
That is my observation after seeing too many otherwise apparently intelligent people wearing them.
Masks are about diminishing people, making them consider themselves ugly and dangerous. It ties in with the climate loonies’ claim that humans are destroying the world just by being alive. Masks are, as someone put it in the past, ‘Western burqas’! Any country that demands them, I will not visit. My optician is still insisting on them, so I’ll just have to put up with the occasional headache!
Change your optician and tell him why. Neither mine nor my husband’s optician insists we wear masks.There are sensible ones out there.
Last October the receptionist challenged me (twice: a third time and I’d have asked him to continue the argument outside), but neither the optician nor the saleswoman were bothered.
The genius idea was that we wear the masks to protect others.
That was indeed (evil) genius. The nazties that came up with this knew that there were plenty of people who were terrified and wanted to wear the face rag purely and alone for themselves, and they turned them into the mask gestapo by pandering to their fears and need for a security blanket strapped across their gob by encouraging them and telling them they were good citizens if they would force sane people who liked breathing fresh air to strap the blasted thing on.
This worked so well the b’stards pulled the same trick with the vaxx poison, which would only work if everyone took it and vaxxed people were only protected if they were surrounded by other vaxxed people. And they call us anti-science…
Masks are a symbol of obedience. It’s virtually impossible to filter viruses. Anyone wearing them unless coerced to is either a fool or regime accomplice. I only wore them to obtain entry to to planes and ignored the mandate in all other circumstances (does that make me a fool?). The 5 minutes I’ve actually had them on it’s so uncomfortable I pity those working in the NHS forced to wear them hours on end.
But are NHS personnel “forced to wear them for hours on end”? Has it become like the jab was; “No mask no job”? I’m wondering what the NHS manager would do, and what a worker’s rights would be, if a worker flat refused to take part in the ridiculous charade and brought a ton of actual evidence to support their position. Because you can’t refute the evidence in the case of masks, it’s all out there, and just because an institution wishes to have politics trump ‘best practice’, which the NHS has clearly turned its back on despite it being the bedrock on which doctors and nurses are trained, then I’m genuinely interested to how that employee would stand legally.
Do they ever look at unmasked crowds all over the world and think…. we’re wrong with this masking fetish or would that be too much of a stretch to admit it
The unmasked crowds all over the world are anti-science and dying terrible deaths.
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I am laughing out loud. You cannot tell of course because I am wearing a mask. h
The war in Ukraine would be a good example here: No masks there. And the health system in the besieged cities certainly collapsed for reasons other than COVID. But no great public health catastrophe because of the terrible pandemic ensued. Or Afghanistan. Under the atrocious regime of the Taliban, people are so incredibly repressed that they aren’t even allowed to have COVID there.
My full respect goes out to anyone who decides to wear a facemask, whether selectively or in perpetuity, outside, or even in the shower. That is, on the condition that they extend the same courtesy to me and fully respect my decision NOT to wear one. A surgical mask is an ugly enough item of clothing, without it also being accompanied by a death stare and lewd remarks.
As we know, it’s crucial to wear them in the shower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzSgXonr0X0
No no don’t give any respect, these ppl are human slime and seek to control you, in a way you dont seek to control them. It’s almost always the most noisy who are the ones doing the worst things behind closed doors.
Ah man, masks…I’m like a fly round shit, honestly, this has become my pet peeve throughout and so I can’t resist commenting even though I’ve done this subject to death recently with providing links to material. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that lockdowns and other restrictions can be abolished, even the mask mandates can be discontinued, but despite all of that we still see numbskulls walking around ( many cycling, sans helmet over here, getting their priorities right obv! ), advertising the fact that they are cretinous, thick and indoctrinated imbeciles who need psychiatric input with regards to their evident hypochondria. I find them quite offensive now to be honest as they represent a collective insult to their fellow, far more intelligent, civilians.
I know I’m preaching to the choir but here’s yet another video, certainly share-worthy if nothing else, featuring a talk given by Stephen Petty, who appears to have a whole alphabet behind his name, which you’ve probably already seen but it is useful to share and only 15mins long. Apparently aerosolized particles can stay suspended in the air for up to 50 days, so says this mask expert! Well then, clearly the solution is to provide better ventilation, not mandate everyone to cover their faces in a useless and harmful muzzle. But of course, as is now evident to the world and their dog, any pretense that any of these restrictions on our freedom and assaults to our bodily autonomy have to do with public health or the control of a virus is just beyond absurd, and if they weren’t so nefarious and damaging it would be laughable, the blatant ignoring and disregard for any and all actual evidence which contradicts the Official Narrative so that The Agenda can be pursued, by hook or by crook. Anyway, more evidence to add to the mountain of contradictory data which already exists, to inevitably be ignored by the corrupt and wicked shysters.
https://odysee.com/@IvorCummins:f/ep.-141-the-ultimate-ppe-expert-with:6
You’re right. Looking on the bright side, the other day I was at the dentist’s surgery that I go to a couple of times a year, and there was only one person wearing one – one of the receptionists. Her mate that sat near to her did not. Nor did the dentist, as he was not doing anything that justified a surgical mask, nor any other patient that turned up into the waiting room. In simple terms, they were more or less back to normal.
They did want me to fill in an online form a day or two before, though, which has a few yes/no tick boxes for typical C19 symptoms; maybe they will delete those eventually.
Yes agreed, we have to celebrate the small wins. It keeps us optimistic. I can go days without seeing a single masktard where I live, then I might see a single moron in the supermarket. It’s really a wonder they don’t feel super self-conscious and ashamed to be honest. I feel that if I leave this person unacknowledged in their stupidity then I’ve somehow let down the side. I feel duty bound in ridiculing that person but I think I’ll have to up the ante in the coming months. It’s almost like I feel the need for confrontation because the first person who challenges my assertion to their lunacy in wearing a mask must be extinguished. I’m afraid that this winter the Mogwai filter is coming off and staying off. I’m now of an age where I seriously don’t give a fook either. Let them drag me out of the train carriage or the supermarket, I’ll be filming the whole glorious episode. I can’t just tolerate this blatant BS and think “Live and let live”. No!! You are the Mother Hubbard that’s demonstrating to children that it’s OK to behave like a half-baked loon and that we should just all look the other way. By doing so we enable this cancer to spread. Sorry not sorry but I am not demonstrating to my kid or anybody else’s that any of this cult-like shit is acceptable because it isn’t. Drink the Kool-Aid if you want but don’t expect participation from the rational folk you need to co-habit your environment with.
“You don’t like my policies you can just come on over here and smooch my big ole white butt!”
Bonus points for the movie reference; “Anyone, anyone?” 😮
I’m not a watcher of fillums Mogs😀
🤣 I do prefer a Geordie Fillum though.😜 Anyway, here’s a clue: it’s from the ’80s, when all the best movies were made…..
Life moves pretty fast, you know, and if you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it…🥸🏎🎡
There’s one important bit missing here: A lot of money is made by producing and selling them as their lifeteime is very limited and dozens of millions of them are in mandated general use. The only everyday remedy against that is Don’t ever put them on unless directly ordered to do so, ideally, Don’t ever put them on unless physically forced to do so.
Lauterbach is a charlatan without any medical qualifications and acting under orders from foreign powers and in direct violation of his oath of office as he’s seeking to harm German people and he knows that (unsurprisingly, he’s also a climate change nutter with an unsavoury inclination to go to climate demonstrations together with young teenage girls).
Another one is the location of the manufacturers. Made in China, perhaps? Also, how to dispose of them (and in reality a lot of them end up in fly tipped rubbish ).
Overwhelmingly. Mask producing factories were created with state subsidies in Germany but as its products are not competitive with the Chinese ones, they haven’t ever really produced anything.
Makes you nostalgic for the old days of German ‘efficiency’, eh?
Maybe Germans are just more compliant with rules than the British, although I’m mortally disappointed with my fellow citizens of late; supine followers of orders and kissers of royal hands – yuk.
Perhaps in spite of all evidence against their effectiveness masks are going to be mandated in Germany because they can’t afford to have the windows open for ventilation this winter? They’ve made a few bad policy decisions in recent years but at least they could afford the heating bill last winter when children were shivering in schools with their coats on as windows and doors were flung wide. Unless German schools had a different system to ours…..
Yes, there are certain national characteristics, no denying it…
I would say Germans are certainly efficient at doing X. Whether X is beneficial, or necessary, or good or or or, is almost immaterial. Befehl ist Befehl.
They just need to start asking from whence the Befehl comes…
This caste of citizens of nowhere party parasites in thrall with everything international or American who keep declaring that their first and foremost mission is to fight right wingers, ie, basically, the German population, at least insofar it is actually German, is certainly not particularly representative of anything-German.
Masks for covid never have been about science (or even common sense). They are about diminishing the individual. As with getting jabbed to protect others (whoever came up with that gem of inverted logic?), they are about making people feel like they are plague rats ands a danger to themselves and everybody else. It is quite clear from the behaviour of the “elites” (G7, Downing Street parties, etc…) that they knew the whole thing was a sham, a ploy of the behavioural insights team to scare people into a state of slavish compliance through irrational fear. Those people are thoroughly evil.
God only knows how many cases of severe, chronic mysophobia the idiot governments of the world have caused with their fear campaigns. Chances are a good number of people still wearing masks are debilitated with generalised fear of contamination from the world or other people. We have an amazing ability to displace feelings we don’t understand onto things we do in order to make some sort of sense of them in an upsetting haze of uncertainty. So no matter how logically useless facemasks are at preventing infection from aerosolised viruses (used in the way they have been), they can become in some unhappy people’s minds a symbol and source of safety and comfort that can’t be found elsewhere.
For others masks are now part of a political uniform, signalling conformity to a creeping ideology they still don’t recognise as totalitarian.
Canadians have really fallen en masse for the psy-op, or at least the media has created a vicious circle of everyone thinking that everyone else thinks something so therefore they pretend they think it…
There is simply no evidence that the pro-maskers will accept. They want it to be true that masks work, so therefore anyone who disagrees is a heretic who must be silenced. Science used to be observation followed by empirical testing. Now we stop at the observation. We dare not test lest it undermine the observation, and now instead of a rational, informed society we become one underpinned by ideology and division.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled”
Masks.
Germany’s new armbands.
(Worn very high this season!)
we are now witnessing repetitive automatic stereotyped behaviour by the cabal, of the sort recognised by psychiatrists as a prelude to self-injuring behaviour … the cabal’s global ‘great reset’ agenda is now failing catastrophically and irreversibly, and they’re in a blind panic … World Economic Forum delegates and their apparatchiks are now starting to understand they are going to be arrested and tried for unprecedented Crimes Against Humanity, with proportionate sentences for those found guilty …
there have been reports of so-called ‘covid virus’ being present in flatus … this raises the serious question of why the wearing of ‘buttock masks’ has so illogically never been mandated or encouraged … i think this is a serious flaw in the ‘arguments’ of the covid mask cultists …
My heart goes out to you, Eugyppius. Being able to use ‘acute distress’ as a reason to be mask exempt was a life saver here in the UK, as, like you, I simply can’t bear masks and in the beginning it reduced me to tears to see people wearing them. I regard masks as anti-human and anti-God. To be still having to bear all this two and a half years on must be beyond unbearable. God help Germany – indeed, God help all of us (just because we are better off here in the UK at the moment doesn’t mean we won’t go backwards later on).
Isn’t it strange. Germany used the enforced wearing of a symbol to demonstrate “the different” in the 1930s.
Now they’re using the enforced wearing of a symbol to demonstrate the conformists (and therefore “the different” by default) in the 2020’s.
They obviously haven’t learned anything from history.
What’s even stranger is that all kinds of US and UK institutions (non-exclusive) are doing the same. But I assume that’s ok because of the different race.
That sums it up perfectly. When I’m out and about here I look at the people who are wearing masks and my feelings about them alternate between pity and contempt.
I think pity is the best response. They are obviously so stupid that they have been taken in by the propaganda and also cannot understand the empirical evidence. So they either don’t have a brain which can make analytical judgements and/or they received a very poor education. Neither of these is their fault; thus the need for pity.
A recent article in the British Medical Journal about the benefit of masks in schools was illustrated with a nice picture of kids wearing cloth and paper ones that even the mask proponents agree are inadequate. Hoist and petard are words that come to mind…
Tesco has updated its web pages for winter. One displays a check-out assistant masked up to the eyeballs in a large black mask, as if this is what we should expect to see. In my area just outside Greater London all online order deliveries appear to have ceased this week and it is click and collect only – provided that you produce your Smart Phone – it is assumed you have one. There is obviously a connection with the weaponizing of fuel and energy prices, perhaps giving Tesco an excuse to make cut-backs, but the DS report on the forthcoming Health Pass, whatever, makes me wonder if we are being coralled into situations of “high-risk” where we won’t be able to buy food or collect medication etc unless we produce this digital ID, Social Credit score, jab record and so on. Tesco has ceased all email communication and their telephone agents neither know nor care about this.
Isn’t “Ordnung muss sein” (“there must be order”) the key to German culture and thus the role their bureaucrats play?
Easyjet flight last week, all cabin crew masked up. Announcement over the tannoy that masks must be worn (but staff wouldn’t challenge anyone). Two people on the flight wore a mask. I asked a crewmember what’s going on, he said staff had been sacked for not complying. He said he didn’t want to lose his job (with his mask round his chin!), but couldn’t understand why Easyjet were insisting masks be worn on flights TO the UK!!
NOTE: outbound Easyjet flight, no masks anywhere and no announcements 🤔
Yeah, it was pretty clear soon after the mask “mandate” (in certain establishments, but not all) was simply to remind the wearer the world had changed – perhaps indefinitely. You’d get up in the morning, get ready to venture out intent on a lovely stress-free day, but… in that moment you were to step out the door, wondering.. “have I got everything I need?” Oh crap, no, that stupid mask – aka: the constant reminder of a scamdemic that under normal circumstances would’ve completely forgotten about. Outside of the 24/7 tickertape mainstream fearporn and the complete lack of people literally dropping dead on the streets before your eyes (remember how it started with those pictures coming out of China?), everything was quite normal. Instead however – you are under the thumb (gov boot) and don’t you forget it!! If that’s not behavioural conditioning I don’t know what is.
I was in Germany over the summer. Someone I spoke to in the smoking area thought the summer was nearing OK but all the nonsense would just come back again in the winter. I didn’t prompt the topic – he started it – he seemed very depressed about it and it seemed like this was his biggest worry. I’ve been in the same place.
On the train (where masks were still mandated) I got a lot of shouting from a young lady about wearing masks. It’s always the young. Are they more scared or just more vulnerable to the misinformation they have been fed? Fortunately the shouting was in German and I’m a bit sketchy on the language.
I’ve appreciated the improvement going to Europe. France was the first to get close to normal, then Spain. Germany is certainly lagging behind here.
Travel is fun and you get an idea of different cultures. I spent a year and a half in Sweden in 2016 and they came across as thoughtful and pragmatic. French seem just like us only with better food. Italians tend to work really hard in the time they have available either side of lunch. Germans have always seemed serious to me. Not usually very open. I can never figure them out