It occurs to me that the enforced wearing of "face coverings" is the one issue where Lockdown Sceptics can begin to achieve real, tangible results in our struggle to regain our freedom.
Writing well-documented, logical, witty and otherwise brilliant letters to the Telegraph, or the Guardian is all very well. So is garnering the support of the odd Conservative backbench MP. But it's not going to actually change anything.
What is called for here is mass action. Specifically mass non-violent action. Civil disobedience on a mass scale. The cowards, the lickspittles, the jobsworths and the cops can easily crush the lone dissenter. But they cannot crush ten thousand.
I suggest we establish a date, sometime in the future, as being the day from which we refuse to wear face coverings in shops. June 1st, for example. Enough time for all vulnerable populations o have been vaccinated and achieved immunity. But from that date forward, increasing numbers of people simply refuse to wear face coverings in shops.
It won't be 100% at first. But we have to start somewhere. We have to start to establish the norm whereby people feel free to show their faces in public.
This needs to be publicised. Via social media. Via leaflets pushed under windscreen wipers and handed out in the street. By whatever means necessary. But we have to send a message that the restrictions on our freedom have to end. And that we, the people, will dictate the schedule.
Not pencil-necked unelected "medical researchers". And not the imbeciles running our Government. The end of imprisonment will be dictated by the will of t he people.
I would love to think that the public would go with this but face coverings seem to have become part of normal life for a lot of people......a bit like a baby’s dummy or a comfort blanket, something that gives them reassurance.
It won't be 100% at first. But we have to start somewhere. We have to start to establish the norm whereby people feel free to show their faces in public.
First of all, we need to know how many are sympathetic to this sort of action. We need to recognise one another in an obvious risk-free way. With confidence in numbers, we could get something going.
That's why I recommend the smiley here, here and even here.
We are social animals and need a sense of community - something that has been taken from us through the enforcement of lockdowns, masks and restrictions on free speech. It is being supplanted by government diktat through mainstream media.
Let us know when. I'm up for it. I don't wear one now until I'm told to.
I was thinking this yesterday, not for mass action but just for my own habits and self respect.
Sometime this spring, they can't expect people to keep up with this charade. I've been wearing a covering most of the time when its illegal not to (not outside, I'm not crazy) since about October when the hysteria started to ramp up again and I'm thinking that as restrictions get lifted, politically there is no way that masks are going to be one of the first things to go since they introduced them when there were hardly any deaths last summer so people will just have to make that decision for themselves regardless of what others are doing.
Its ridiculous that there is no cutoff point for any of these measures or even an indication of one but it will be a lot less awkward to walk into a supermarket without a mask when the media haven't got the death figures to back up their hysteria. Unless they start going on about cases again in the summer like they did last year. Its ridiculous that there's no indication that anytime soon they will just be optional. If that was the case I'm sure many would still wear them based on how many people I see walking around the streets with them on. Them people could buy one of the proper n95 masks to protect themselves and leave the rest of us free to not look like cult members every time we go inside a public building
