Every once in a while you see people in the stores or at events wearing masks. I wonder if they have a bad cold, or still have mental issues due to the scamdemic. We know that masks are worthless. I seldom wore a mask believing your fear should not control my common sense.
“Such are the COVID holdouts. Most of us knew that the masking and isolation were all nonsense. Even though they’ll never admit it, our friends on the left know the truth also and quietly threw away their masks. But to many, the mask was more than a health thing. It was a political statement, and that statement was “I am not one of those MAGA creeps.” For them, like the Japanese living in jungles 10, 20, and even 30 years after the war had ended, they can never surrender. Their entire identity is tied up in that mask.”
The COVID mask holdouts
By Douglas Flint, American Thinker, 8/14/23 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/the_covid_mask_holdouts.html
My son came back from shopping today a little stunned, as though he had seen a ghost. He was shocked to see a person in the grocery store still wearing a COVID mask. He immediately leapt to an analogy that has kept me laughing all day.
Long after World War II ended, Japanese soldiers remained hidden in the jungles and caves of the Pacific islands, either unaware or unwilling to accept that Japan had surrendered. It had been drilled into them that not only would surrender disgrace themselves, and that they would never be welcomed back home, but further, it would disgrace their families to the tenth generation. The last known of these holdouts, Teruo Nakamura, surrendered in 1975, but knowing the breadth of the territory Japan had occupied and fought on, the inaccessibility of the jungles, mountains, and caves, it is safe to assume many more never came out and died unknown in hiding…or who knows? A couple could still be alive in hiding.
Such are the COVID holdouts. Most of us knew that the masking and isolation were all nonsense. Even though they’ll never admit it, our friends on the left know the truth also and quietly threw away their masks. But to many, the mask was more than a health thing. It was a political statement, and that statement was “I am not one of those MAGA creeps.” For them, like the Japanese living in jungles 10, 20, and even 30 years after the war had ended, they can never surrender. Their entire identity is tied up in that mask.
