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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Apr \ parent \ on: A Vaccine Reckoning Under Trump? science
I remember the first few months, it was Republicans/conservatives who were wearing masks and Democrats/progressives calling them racist for worrying about it.
Oh!! There were many, many conservative/republican/statists that wouldn’t hear a word of it because their bullisht meters were pegging out. Didn’t your BS meter go crazy? Mine did and I didn’t wear masks and I went everywhere I wanted unless they refused my custom (and I still haven’t been back) and stood within 6 feet of people. There were many like me, here.
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I didn't start seeing red flags until actual mandates and restrictions started rolling out that made no sense and people were getting censored for asking reasonable questions. That didn't start until a few months in.
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The red flags for me went off when they started talking about masking and how effective it was and staying six feet away from everybody else. The plexiglass partitions and all the other accoutrements cemented in my mind that it was all about control, not health. I had seen the effectiveness of masks while living in Japan, it was a joke, but it was an accepted practice. I think the idea for it came right out of China and Japan.
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While it was people and businesses voluntarily taking protective measures, I just figured we were all learning by doing and most things would turn out to not be very useful but some would.
That was definitely naive of me, but I won't pretend to have been more savvy than I was.
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I had a lot of problems with the “voluntary” protective measures. I would never follow the arrows on the floors of the grocery stores and always go in the opposite direction. I would make loud comments on the ridiculousness of the situation and tell people to go bother someone that cared about this BS. To say the least, I made myself into a troublemaker whenever I could. I also got into problems because I liked going where I wanted to go, when I wanted to go. I especially saw red over the church closings and censorship.
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