The reason we've been told: You must wear a mask, because you might have the Covid19 virus. Wearing a mask does not protect the wearer from Covid19, however- it only protects people from you if you are infected.
It's brilliantly packaged, because it makes anyone who doesn't wear the mask into a villain in the eyes of all the terrified masked masses. "You're not wearing a mask- you could kill me and my family! I'm wearing my mask to protect you, but you selfishly choose not to wear a mask and put everyone around you in danger!"
This is so fucking sinister, so disturbing, so nightmarish in how Orwellian it is. The framing of the "mask logic" was done perfectly, in a manner that makes all people who don't mind risking catching the flu into monsters who must be dealt with and punished for endangering the entire fucking planet.
This. Its the perfect exploit of people's guilt mechanism. It's like reintroducing original sin that Christianity used to defend us from
Also the switcheroo on the issue just really fucks your mind if you comply.
The difference a few months made to go from "masks don't work" and "anti-maskers want to kill.your grandma"
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