COVID-19 poses no real risk to children. There are many, many other activities that children engage in throughout the day with higher mortality/injury rates. And yet we’re now being told that our children must wear masks in order to return to school in the fall. Nevermind the fact that no child under 10 has ever been found to have passed on COVID to an adult. Nevermind the fact that asymptomatic COVID-positive individuals cannot pass on COVID to others. Nevermind the fact that we are moving to natural herd immunity, without the need for lockdowns, vaccines, or really any other mitigation effort other than a healthy diet, sunlight, and sleep.
Mandatory masks for children are about conditioning young minds to the new ideology, the new Puritanism, the new totalitarianism. It’s about normalizing something that feels utterly abnormal in a free society. It’s about conversion to a new fundamentalism.
The gravitational forces of re-barbarization, always lurking within our primitive nature, are intent upon destroying the free, open, and pluralistic society that must appear to it so unnatural, and dragging us back into a demon-haunted Dark Age, where spirits and demons move silently among us. According to the new fundamentalism, only our prayers, rituals, and talismans will keep us safe, as we cower and await the End of Days.
Breathing masks serve the function of talisman, to be brandished and wielded against the phantasms of our psyche. We must vigorously reject this anti-liberal, anti-civilization reversion to a more primitive existence. Which means we must oppose the progenitors of this new primitivism currently masquerading as Science.
