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Anyone who thinks technology will save humanity would do well to notice that technology + modern media has combined to give us the amazing never-ending pandemic.

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...”cuntish cretinism”...shit Rigger now I need to go and change my blouse! This one somehow has coffee all over it. Fuck.

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Perhaps even more important than the fact that masks aren't safe or effective is the fact that they are tools used by the powerful to frighten and thus control people.

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Doc, this piece is so full of quotability, I am tempted to cut-and-paste to my Twitter (wait, X?) feed, doing so a paragraph at a time. Then again, a guy I know, who REALLY needs to hear this, left X because he didn't like Elon. (No word on if he even knew the previous owners. I digress...) Anyway, during one of my tirades about the uselessness of masks, he asked me, no doubt as a friend attempting to "pull my coattail" on an issue I was misunderstanding, "Wilt, is masks really the hill you want to die on? So-and-so almost died of covid." I gave up on his intellect that day. Anyway, I remain as shocked as are you that something, not only as useless, but also as likely to cause harm, as masks, continues to maintain traction. Then I think, 90+% of the elevators on Manhattan Island do not have a 13th floor. Stupidstions never die. I am tempted to mention a paper published in the wake of the Spanish Flu epidemic, a paper that illustrated that bacterial pneumonia--the kind you might get from, wait for it, wearing a dirty-assed snot pouch on your face all day--caused a large percentage of those deaths. As you asked, "when is the sheer cuntish cretinism ever going to end?"

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I am afraid the renewed mask mandates are an intentional setup to foment conflict among the proles. Even if a majority protests and won't comply, the minority will demand punishment and the authorities will be quite willing to oblige. I fly 10 or 12 times per year, and I shudder to think that all those armed guards are present and ready and willing to punish the noncompliant that show up at the security checkpoints without the masks. It won't be pretty.

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They (the bureaucrats) just love their fear porn and control. The damn vaccine that kills more people than helping will be shipping out mid-September and people will run to get their jab. Control and greed. What nasty, nasty people.

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I do not talk to people who wear them. Fearful, poisoned (and may I say devestatingly stupid) people wear them.

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It’s been a slow watering down from the original Grimm standard. Who can enjoy the sanctimonious pablum of the Disney movies— even the old ones— if they’ve been raised on the literary version of Snow White that ends with the wicked stepmother dancing to death in her glowing shoes?

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Recommended movie for the topic:

'The Mask' with Jim Carrey.

(If you go looking for the comic it's based on, be aware the comic is much more violent and less slap-stick.)

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