Refusing to Social Distance?
Declining to wear a mask?
Stupid people wallowing in a giant puddle of Stupidity?
Maybe / maybe not.
I’ll tell you what I think …
It may be fundamental DEFIANCE instead.
How does THAT work?? You may well ask.
Let’s look at the beginning of distrust back in May..
STRIKE 2
the executive director of the health emergency programme at the World Health Organization, Dr Michael Ryan, said during a briefing: “There are limits to how a mask can protect you from being infected. The most important thing everyone can do is wash your hands, keep your hands away from your face and observe very precise hygiene.”
He added: “Not having a mask does not necessarily put you at any increased risk of contracting this disease.”
STRIKE 3
An infection prevention specialist, Dr Eli Perencevich, has said that healthy people should not wear masks at all — whether surgical masks, N95 masks, or respirator masks.
Dr Perencevich said: “The average healthy person does not need to have a mask, and they shouldn’t be wearing masks. There’s no evidence that wearing masks on healthy people will protect them. They wear them incorrectly, and they can increase the risk of infection because
they’re touching their face more often.”
A husband who has an affair, lies about and then claims the moral high ground by saying,
“Well, I came out and confessed - didn’t I?”
Can’t expect ever to be trusted again - can he?
Experts owe honesty before trust can be conferred.
A “confused” Expert is not an Expert to be trusted.
A lying Expert (who lies for “good reasons) can’t expect to have his advice followed.
Does that justify NOT wearing a mask? No - but it helps EXPLAIN the defiance.
SECOND PROBLEM
RICH vs POOR
Rich People can afford a shutdown - Poor People cannot.
The lecturing tone of rich persons wagging their self-righteous, well-manicured fingers in the face of people who can't pay their mortgage or afford health care are triggering defiance, resentment, and anger.
Shutting down low-income people who've lost their jobs has snapped the thin thread of a connection with self-respect.
Political Leaders who are filthy rich love to virtue signal how compliant they are.
"Stay inside" (if you're Nancy Pelosi standing in front of two stainless steel freezers with fabulously expensive ice cream on display), is a message to trigger contrast of class disparity.
"Let them eat cake" is the message in the ears of penniless wage-earners.
People with F.U.money; corrupt political leaders,the hectoring elites -
PUSH the button of DEFIANCE in the underclass.
Both Republicans AND Democrats have only come to the rescue of BIG MONEY, Banks, Wall Street and Corporations to the tune of Millions, Billions, and Trillions of $$
And what do they do for the poor?
“Here’s $1200 bucks. Shut up and be grateful.”
I can't read Trump's mind but his "man of the people" brand won the last election and I'd risk a guess he's posturing a Mask-free attitude to remain in the public eye as insubordinate to the end.
Just to be clear about it - wearing a mask is to protect the OTHERS from your own droplets. Most of the chatter I hear is just the opposite.
I WEAR A MASK. It can’t hurt. It might help. End of story for me.
However, more is going on than social distancing ...and masks ...
The pandemic of 1918 Spanish Influenza created a 2nd wave after a subsidence period.
When that tide goes out...way way out ...and all those fish are flopping in the sand ....just....before...the Tsunami ...
Well THAT'S WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
A revolution is coming. Maybe 3 different revolutions simultaneously
1. Rich vs Poor
2. Black vs White
3. Political Correctness vs Go F-yourself
Everybody is in the mood to lecture everybody else - but NOT to LISTEN..
Defiance is not stupidity - it is much, much worse - it is the last stand on the last hill in the last battle of the last war civilization will ever fight. DEFIANCE is to be condemned - but shouldn’t be unexpected.
Stupidity is the least of the problems we face.
WE FACE REVOLUTION destroying everything in the misguided guise of improving everything.
And nobody can stop it from happening. Not with a mask. Not with 10 feet of distance.
Not with a vote for the “right” candidate.
We are broken and barbarians are at our gate…
WE ARE THE BARBARIANS at each others’ gates.