Thread on masks.
Imagine if they would've treated us like adults instead and said, "Right now we're trying whatever we can, and we need all the help we can get. We're learning on the fly here with a novel virus. So let's try wearing masks for 30 days and see if that helps."
Imagine if they would've treated us like adults instead and said, "Right now we're trying whatever we can, and we need all the help we can get. We're learning on the fly here with a novel virus. So let's try wearing masks for 30 days and see if that helps."
I would've been like, "Hey man we're all Americans here. Let's see if it works to get this under control and our lives back. Only one way to find out, and none of us have ever seen anything like this before. There's no playbook for this."
Instead, we got an instant about-face memory holing of all actual science on this until about a month ago. When a media-driven cult politicized this to to the hilt, and made the mask its talisman. And you were scarlet lettered if you dare ask, "Hey what's the science on that?"
One way acknowledges there are forces in nature beyond our understanding, which at times we need to come together to try and understand when we're confronted by them. And those times may require suffering or inconvenience to achieve wellness and success. That's the adult path.
The other is the way of Salem -- and what it does if Galileo and Fleming dare to question the group think. It is not driven by data but desire, not observational/provable science but raw and unbridled emotion -- which demands affirmation or you will be made to care.
One path brings a people together during times such as these. The other tears them apart.
Guess which path we're on?
Guess which path we're on?
