Scott
Morefield|Posted: Nov 30, 2020 12:01 AM
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The “big
lie” propaganda technique, a phrase coined by Adolf Hitler, purports to tell a
lie so "colossal" that people simply wouldn’t believe the teller
"could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." You’ve
doubtless seen the most famous adaptation of this, which may or may not have
been said by former Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. It goes as
follows:
“If you tell
a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe
it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the
people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It
thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to
repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension,
the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Now today,
we thankfully don’t have an all-powerful “State,” not yet anyway, but we do
have what I’ll call the ‘System,’ a toxic mishmash of do-gooder Big Tech
overlords, power-hungry ‘public servants,’ liberty-hating ‘health officials,’
and frightened corporations bullied into both submitting and forcing others to
submit to this nonsense. And that ‘System,’ as it were, is most certainly busy
repressing dissent in order to bolster its very own, albeit new, “Big Lie,”
that “face masks work to stop the spread of COVID-19.”
Not a soul
could have possibly predicted this eight months ago when established science
laughed at the idea that a piece of cloth over people’s faces would somehow
abate the spread of a highly contagious respiratory virus. Everyone is aware of
the extreme course-reversal our overlords took on forced public masking almost
overnight. We’re supposed to believe they simply told us a "noble
lie" to preserve masks for healthcare workers, but the problem for them is
that back then they gave us solid reasons backed up by decades of science to
make their case.
“There’s no
reason to be walking around with a mask when you’re in the middle of an
outbreak,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said back in March. “Wearing a mask might make
people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not
providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And often, there
are unintended consequences; people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep
touching their face.”
Obviously,
the good doctor eventually took an about-face on that advice, attributing it,
apparently, to a national shortage of fabric capable of being turned into face
coverings, or something. But what part of his initial rationale was
incorrect? Did scientists not know about “droplets” in March? Apparently they
did, considering Fauci addressed the issue in his statement. Did the “unintended
consequences” he listed suddenly disappear as soon as mask use to “stop the
spread” became a literal religious cult?
Did people stop fiddling with their masks and touching their faces? Of course
not. Given the amount of almost nonstop “fiddling” I see just in my own
observations, it’s hard to imagine any real gain in the reduction of droplet
transmission not being more than made up for by bacterial and viral surface
spread.
With so many
high-mask-compliance places now going into lockdown, does it not strike anyone
as odd that the bold statements made by our overlords months ago - that 80+%
mask compliance would end the pandemic, or at least severely curb it - are now
being memory-holed? Remember when CDC Director Robert Redford told us in July
(and God knows how many other times), that mask-wearing would end this
pandemic. I believe he may have even said that masks were a “vaccine,” although
the memory-holing is fogging my own memory a bit.
Remember
when Variety wrote in May about
a “compelling new study” they claimed provided “fresh evidence for a simple
solution to help us emerge from this nightmarish lockdown.” Their ‘solution’?
“If 80% of Americans wore masks, COVID-19 infections would plummet.” Well, mask
compliance is well, well above 80%. In fact, in the states that fine businesses
for people not wearing masks in their facilities, boots on the ground tell me
it’s pretty close to 100%. Yet, other than a few New England states where the
virus just hasn’t hit yet, high mask compliance states aren’t really doing any
better than low mask compliance ones, and are in many cases doing quite worse.
From Italy
to France to Czechia to the United Kingdom to lockdown and mask-loving U.S.
states like Illinois, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Michigan, and California, the
virus is spreading like wildfire regardless of humans turning themselves and
their societies into pretzels trying to avoid it. The data is right before the
eyes of anyone who bothers to look, as the Mises Institute’s Tom Woods points out in this
powerful video that YouTube felt obligated to suppress (you know, to protect
the Big Lie). Mask mandates, no matter how strictly imposed and adhered to, are
almost always eventually followed by tremendous spikes in the virus. And yet,
the response from the powers-that-be is
always, always, ALWAYS to MASK
HARRDERRR!!! California, which has mandated masks statewide for months, decided
to deal with a November spike in cases by extending their outdoor mask mandate,
despite the fact that zero science says the virus spreads outdoors to any
significant extent. Oh, and they’re also locking down, albeit without admitting
that the masking has completely failed to curb the virus. Otherwise, why would
they need to lock down? Yep, it’s just another one of those difficult-to-answer
questions that only a Big Lie could even begin to answer.
Of course,
when infection rates do come down, and they will, they will come down
regardless of how high or low mask “compliance” is in an area, because that’s
also what viruses do when a certain seroprevalence is reached (yes, there are
problems with PCR tests, but the herd immunity threshold admittedly seems
higher than what many of us initially thought). Except, the masks will then be
given the “credit” in the high compliance areas, while the low compliance areas
that also decrease will be ignored.
Whether they
mean well or they just want to turn us all into faceless sheeple capable of
obeying even the most absurd and destructive commands, the truth is, it takes a
lie the size of Mount Everest to continually prop nonsense like this up and to
keep people believing it despite what we all see in front of our eyes. It takes
a "Big Lie."
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