Wearing Masks

[h.h.]

Shit in the street and call yourself an anarchist.

 

[Gry]

Quite a difference between burning one and dealing with a virus.

Masks and social distancing can save lives.
Fuck the virus not the neighborhood you live in.

 

[gaiusmarius]

Moral(istic) majority: Nearly 60 % of mask wearers think non-maskers are ‘bad people’ - Britain, what’s wrong with you?

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/500488-covid19-divide-masks-britain/

Guy Birchall

Guy Birchall, British journalist covering current affairs, politics and free speech issues. Recently published in The Sun and Spiked Online. Follow him on Twitter @guybirchall
11 Sep, 2020 16:16

Lockdown and face-coverings have proven to be even more divisive than Brexit in the UK as self-righteous Covid19 zealots pour scorn on the apostates who have the gall to disagree with them.

A new survey has shown that divisions in the UK over lockdown run even deeper than the wounds left by the Brexit vote. It turns out that 58 percent of mask wearers have “severely negative” views of those who don’t opt for a face-nappy and 68 percent of people who kept to the lockdown rules have the same view of those who did not.

Even worse than that, 12 percent of mask-wearers said they hated those who did not wear face coverings, and 14 percent of lockdown adherents hate rule breakers, the survey conducted by Demos found. They hate them, there are actually people in Britain who hate others for not wearing a bit of cloth over their nose and mouth, and most of those who don’t hate those they disagree with still think they are bad people.

To these people, thinking that the lockdown was an overreaction or that mask wearing is pointless isn’t just a differing point of view, it is a moral failing. You are an apostate, an unbeliever, careless, reckless, you want to kill granny, you think the economy is more important than human life, you are, in short, a bastard.

It is, of course, impossible that your objections stem from legitimate concerns about state overreach. No one could legitimately think that it was a bit off for the government of a supposedly free country to effectively place the entire nation under house arrest for months on end. No half-decent person could object to the prime minister mandating items of clothing, arbitrarily restricting how many people you can associate with or shutting down thousands of businesses, depriving millions of employment. No, if you believe any of these things it is because you are evil, stupid or both.

Even more horrifyingly, at least to the mind of a bastard like me, is that a third of people think that those who didn’t dutifully applaud their incarceration every Thursday during the hideous “clap for carers” nonsense are bad human beings. Obviously it was imperative to clap for the NHS during a time when it was significantly less busy than normal and failure to do so marked you out as someone hell bent on some sort of pensioner genocide.

According to Demos, who carried out the survey, the reason for such strong feelings are that “the stakes are so high, when it comes to protecting lives and protecting livelihoods, that people are starting to see those who disagree with them on Covid as ‘bad’ people. This threatens attempts to build national solidarity for a programme of reform and repair.”

Is the perceived risk the real reason behind all this, or is it more the self-righteousness of the lockdowners? Does it not have more to do with the fact that they see themselves as “good” for their desire to keep the country locked down? Surely if one sees their opponents as “bad” or even more so if they “hate” them, then that means their opinions deserve no quarter?

Because if we actually look at the risks, they don’t appear to warrant the actions that have been taken. The median age of death with Covid-19 is 81 years old, the average age of death in the UK is 81.16. Plainly, any death is a deeply sad event for any family, but Covid-19 is mainly claiming the lives of the old, not those of the young. A rational decision would be to tell older people to take extra precautions, but locking down the healthy population and crippling the economy makes no sense. However, for just making that point I have marked myself out as a bad person. Two thirds of those surveyed don’t think I’ve made a cost benefit analysis of a situation and reached a different conclusion; they think I have a fundamental moral failing.

This perception, that those who disagree with the lockdown are bad people, has been compounded by a government that is so terrified of appearing negligent that it has become tyrannical. To try and get people to comply with their measures, it mounted a campaign to terrify the ever-loving hell out of every person in the country. In this, they were enthusiastically aided and abetted by a fearmongering media that only ever asked why Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock weren’t locking down earlier, or harder or for longer.

All these groups ignore the growing evidence that Sweden, which did not lockdown, dealt with the problem far better than most countries. They ignore the fact that vast swathes of the population may have already had Covid-19 because it is simply not that bad for most people. They ignore the economic damage these ludicrous curbs on freedom have caused. They ignore all of these facts because they believe they are right, virtuous and good.

It is no coincidence that these people who so readily cheer for more restrictions are on the left, from the public health panjandrums who dreamt up the lockdowns in the first place, to the hectoring media shaming people who went to the beach over the summer. Even this supposedly “conservative” government has given itself over to leftist authoritarianism rather than conserving anything. This is even before they hike up taxes to pay for their earlier stupidity.

And now Hancock and Johnson are seeking to empower some of these zealots as “Covid marshals” who will wander about the streets shopping people to the filth for gathering in groups of more than six. These people may think I and many of my fellow countryman are “bad” people, but if believing in freedom of choice and the right to go about my day unmolested by curtain-twitching busybodies makes me bad then, in the words of Michael Jackson: “I’m bad, I’m bad, I’m really, really bad.”

 

[Klompen]

This just in: 58% of people don't like the idea of gun ranges having cities directly behind them! We used to be able to just disagree like decent people, but now those evil leftists are trying to demand that we put a berm behind the targets at minimum. Bullets are small, and only 1-2% of the city will die. Why do lefties hate our freedoms so much?????

 

[Crooked8]

This just in: 58% of people don't like the idea of gun ranges having cities directly behind them! We used to be able to just disagree like decent people, but now those evil leftists are trying to demand that we put a berm behind the targets at minimum. Bullets are small, and only 1-2% of the city will die. Why do lefties hate our freedoms so much?????

Hahaha this is the most perfect of these types of examples ive seen. Id high five you if i could.

 

[mr.brunch]

Even more divisive than Brexit?
People are more worried about wearing a mask in shops than potentially losing their business and the good Friday agreement?
Hmmm....sounds like distraction to me.

 

[mr.brunch]

Maybe it’s a distraction from things like they said early on not to wear masks.
Why was this?
So the tories donors and contacts had time to set up ppe companies, and be awarded millions worth of contracts... even though they had no experience in making ppe.
Or maybe that the reason we’re having Brexit in the first place is because the bigger donors want to get rid of pesky human rights laws and scrap work hour limits.
Yeah, the politicians are no less fuckin slimy over here.

 

[h.h.]

Maybe it’s a distraction from things like they said early on not to wear masks.
Why was this?
So the tories donors and contacts had time to set up ppe companies, and be awarded millions worth of contracts... even though they had no experience in making ppe.
Or maybe that the reason we’re having Brexit in the first place is because the bigger donors want to get rid of pesky human rights laws and scrap work hour limits.
Yeah, the politicians are no less fuckin slimy over here.

Why didn’t we have experts on an unknown unexpected virus? I blame the small shop that went from making backpacks to making the masks I bought.. They were behind it all.

 

[mr.brunch]

I’m not referring to small companies who helped out when (in the uk) We realised our stockpile of ppe was years out of date , I’m referring specifically to the companies connected to Tory party donors-

A month after knighting Sir Tom for raising £32m, the govt gave 10x as much to company valued at £100, and with no expertise in producing PPE, for 50m masks we can’t use
By one of those massively rare coincidences that happen 9 times out of 10, the owner is a close friend Liz Truss

And then it was revealed the govt didn’t just sign one inexplicable contract with a useless and inexperienced supplier: they had at least 20 contracts
One of the contracts is for £108m, paid to a pest control company with assets of just £18,000. The company is now using money from that contract to threaten legal action against a lawyer who asked what it is doing with the money. I kid you not.

 

[St. Phatty]

Shit in the street and call yourself an anarchist.

or a San Franciscan who couldn't find a public toilet.

Nightsoil for the Win !

 

[Gry]

Reminded of past efforts to mine nitrates from the population in past times of conflicts.
Nothing more interesting than our own appropriately damned history.

 

[h.h.]

or a San Franciscan who couldn't find a public toilet.

Nightsoil for the Win !

“The man” ain’t gonna tell me where to shit. This is a free country.

 

[gaiusmarius]

superheros

superheros

in the age of covid, we have super hero's of a new stripe.

in fact its never been so easy to give your life meaning and to be a super hero.

all you have to do is religiously follow "the rules", what ever they might be at any given time, fuck the constitution eh? you spy on your Neighbors and report them, if they have visitors, or if their neighbour visits without a mask while in their garden. murderers!

also spending many hours a day telling people to wear masks on the internet. and telling those that can't pay rent or buy food unless they work, that they are murderers for trying to support their family.

you don't actually have to work to be a covid hero. cashing your government check and staying home with your family is the heroic thing to do.

the only thing that will stop this new meaningful heroic you, is the end of the pandemic, which is obviously the last thing you want as a covid super hero.

rock them lock downs for ever and masks too!

 

[h.h.]

Free the nipple. Disease free and still persecuted.

 

[Microbeman]

in the age of covid, we have super hero's of a new stripe.

in fact its never been so easy to give your life meaning and to be a super hero.

all you have to do is religiously follow "the rules", what ever they might be at any given time, fuck the constitution eh? you spy on your Neighbors and report them, if they have visitors, or if their neighbour visits without a mask while in their garden. murderers!

also spending many hours a day telling people to wear masks on the internet. and telling those that can't pay rent or buy food unless they work, that they are murderers for trying to support their family.

you don't actually have to work to be a covid hero. cashing your government check and staying home with your family is the heroic thing to do.

the only thing that will stop this new meaningful heroic you, is the end of the pandemic, which is obviously the last thing you want as a covid super hero.

rock them lock downs for ever and masks too!

obviously also easy to be gullible to social media gossip and political bullshit.

 

[CaptainDankness]

in the age of covid, we have super hero's of a new stripe.

in fact its never been so easy to give your life meaning and to be a super hero.

all you have to do is religiously follow "the rules", what ever they might be at any given time, fuck the constitution eh? you spy on your Neighbors and report them, if they have visitors, or if their neighbour visits without a mask while in their garden. murderers!

also spending many hours a day telling people to wear masks on the internet. and telling those that can't pay rent or buy food unless they work, that they are murderers for trying to support their family.

you don't actually have to work to be a covid hero. cashing your government check and staying home with your family is the heroic thing to do.

the only thing that will stop this new meaningful heroic you, is the end of the pandemic, which is obviously the last thing you want as a covid super hero.

rock them lock downs for ever and masks too!

I still have yet have anyone say anything to me about not wearing a mask. They are required just about everywhere but I just don't wear one and not a single person has said anything negative.

Of course I'm not a little guy, I definitely wouldn't bitch at me about something as stupid as wearing a mask. Although some bitch told me I was going to hell for listening to music, it was a Marilyn Manson song that came on, but fuck her. Lol, I don't believe in Christianity, so the next time she walked by my house I blasted some Slipknot Heretic Anthem. Lol, haven't seen her walk by since, I'm not the most neighborly person.

 

[h.h.]

I still have yet have anyone say anything to me about not wearing a mask. They are required just about everywhere but I just don't wear one and not a single person has said anything negative.

Of course I'm not a little guy, I definitely wouldn't bitch at me about something as stupid as wearing a mask. Although some bitch told me I was going to hell for listening to music, it was a Marilyn Manson song that came on, but fuck her. Lol, I don't believe in Christianity, so the next time she walked by my house I blasted some Slipknot Heretic Anthem. Lol, haven't seen her walk by since, I'm not the most neighborly person.

You sound like a good neighbor. Being big and intimidating and all. It’s all about you. Fuck them bitches.

 

[oldschoolnitro]

You sound like a good neighbor. Being big and intimidating and all. It’s all about you. Fuck them bitches.

its a political hoax... we will look back and laugh at the fools who bought into this leftist crap... seriously the political left is nothing but lies upon lies upon lies..... a cesspool of virtue signalling and corporate plundering. Masks LOL... only if your a fucking moron who's too stupid to think for themselves

 

[CaptainDankness]

You sound like a good neighbor. Being big and intimidating and all. It’s all about you. Fuck them bitches.

I live in the mountains, don't bring your city problems here. They recently bought land and built 2 houses half a mile down the road, I'm not going to change because city folk moved in.

Jesus loves you, I don't, go fuck yourself.

 

[bigtacofarmer]

I live in the mountains, don't bring your city problems here. They recently bought land and built 2 houses half a mile down the road, I'm not going to change because city folk moved in.

Jesus loves you, I don't, go fuck yourself.

Please quit using any products or services manufactured in cities. They do not need you.


And clearly you have the skills to provide everything you need in life for yourself.