Free government masks. What’s wrong with this picture? So stupid it hurts. pic.twitter.com/nZrhBT2tb8

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 2, 2022

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Great conversation between @JesseBWatters and Sen. Rand Paul on mask mania:

“So really there’s no strong evidence that masks work … If anything the disease keeps going up when you have mask mandates. The masks really have had no influence on the pandemic.” pic.twitter.com/m4fpwydbiW

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) January 26, 2022

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The Washington Examiner’s Christopher Tremoglie writes, “Trust the science’ has been the mantra of Big Tech during this entire pandemic. And Big Tech has adhered to this belief by eliminating any dissenting opinion about the best way to manage the spread of COVID on many of their platforms.

New from @cwtremo for @dcexaminer – “But YouTube was wrong, and Paul was right. The CDC announced this week that cloth masks are largely ineffective in preventing the spread of COVID-19.” https://t.co/71nbcmnvPR

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 20, 2022

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a doctor, was the victim of this information suppression in August, when YouTube suspended him after claiming he posted misleading videos about wearing masks. Despite backing up his claims with research, YouTube insisted he was wrong and his message was a danger to society.

Except now, the science has vindicated Sen. Paul.”

Read the entire column.

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I wasn’t afraid to tell @seanspicer and @LyndsayMKeith last night: the #CCP sucks. We’ve got plenty of certified N95 mask manufacturers in the USA, but Speaker Pelosi ordered Chinese masks for Capitol Hill. This is ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/WP4vSTfHDE

— Congresswoman Kat Cammack (@RepKatCammack) January 19, 2022

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By Kelley Paul

A few years ago I watched a movie called “Safety Not Guaranteed” that I loved and highly recommend. I was thinking about it yesterday as a salesperson cheerfully exhorted me to “stay safe” as I checked out. It’s something we hear everyday now – from strangers, TV anchors, salespeople.

Safety is both the mantra and central desire of our times.

We demand that Joe Biden, or Anthony Fauci, or Google –-someone, anyone, please tell us exactly what to do to keep us safe. Anyone but ourselves, of course. It must be an authority, someone who is more “expert,” thereby absolving us of pesky decision-making, conflict, or God forbid, blame.

Thus freed of any essential responsibility, we are available for endless glazed-eyed scrolling, Netflix binging, and Uber-eating, all from the safety of the sofa. We are comfortable, dull, obedient, and insulated in body and mind.  Our fleecy sweatpants feel great and trolling “far right conspiracists” on Twitter gives us just the right hit of dopamine to feel even better – virtuous even! After all, we are following the rules! We are inside and safe and double masked, double-vaxxed, double-boosted, and we display the approved level of contempt or better yet, hatred, for those who are not.

But it’s not enough to keep ourselves safe. No. If others don’t comply they should be forced to do so, because their very act of noncompliance makes us feel uncomfortable, and vaguely concerned that maybe we should think a little harder about our own choices. And that’s just too much work. Plus it gives us FOMO if everyone isn’t lying on the couch.  (That’s why, according to Rasmussen, half of Democrats favor segregated camps, fines and prison terms for those who publicly disagree with COVID policy.  Remember, they have empathy! They just care more!)

And so we offload our discernment, our very agency as free adults, to others in the name of safety. Thank God Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins cared enough to do that  “devastating public takedown” of those annoying Stanford and Harvard epidemiologists, before we had to trouble our minds with their challenging ideas. It’s so much easier and more comforting to know that one man is “The Science.”

And thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and his anonymous, all-knowing fact-checkers, we will no longer have to see anything decreed to be misleading, dangerous or debunked – we won’t be aware of it at all! It’s great that we don’t have to trouble our pretty heads with ideas until they have been fully approved by the authorities.

After all, they are smarter than we are. Conspiracy theories about the US funding of the Wuhan lab, or cloth masks not stopping viral spread, or any other worrisome, conflicting ideas will be swiftly censored.

We instead, apparently, need to think about important things like ordering some new sweatpants from Amazon. These are getting snug.

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From Based Politics, “In August, Sen. Rand Paul told top White House doctor Anthony Fauci that cloth masks were ineffective in stopping the spread of COVID-19. He repeated this in a video, which led to his suspension from YouTube.

ABC News reported, ‘YouTube has suspended Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky from uploading content for one week after he posted a video claiming most masks are ineffective in combatting COVID-19…’

But it turns out, according to the CDC itself, that Sen. Paul was right all along about cloth masks being relatively ineffective.

The New York Times reported on Saturday, ‘The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday clarified its stance on various kinds of masks, acknowledging that the cloth masks frequently worn by Americans do not offer as much protection as surgical masks or respirators.”

Read the entire story.

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It’s a dangerous world when only government approved science is allowed to be shared. https://t.co/TjRg2dI564

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 16, 2022

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Does this mean snot-nosed censors at YouTube will come to my office and kiss my … and admit I was right?https://t.co/0BZ2HZHiZW

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 15, 2022

From the New York Times, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday clarified its stance on various kinds of masks, acknowledging that the cloth masks frequently worn by Americans do not offer as much protection as surgical masks or respirators.

While this disparity is widely known to the general public, the update marks the first time the C.D.C. has explicitly addressed the differences.”

Read the entire story.

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The Spectator’s Chadwick Moore writes, “On the streets of any city, the forever-masked are broadcasting their allegiance to authoritarianism, letting you know they’re most comfortable somewhere on a hierarchy of coercion, whether among the hopelessly obedient, or tyrants themselves.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. You now have a visual cue letting you know exactly who you’re dealing with and who to avoid. By now, if a masked person approaches you with a grievance, you pretty much know there’s nothing worth engaging with and you have permission to treat them accordingly.

.@Chadwick_Moore: “Masks dehumanize. They sever and isolate us from one another. They are little more than theater at this point, a charade indoctrinating the masses to be ever untrusting, vigilant and inward. Now we are at a point where masks segregate.” https://t.co/ClWZfiNbir

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 12, 2022

But not all of our neighbors have free will when it comes to masks. There’s something eerie going on now, where liberal leadership still requires low-wage workers and people in service to continue to mask up. If you can sit for a meal at a restaurant and fully enjoy yourself while those serving you, and no one else, are still forced to shroud half their faces, there’s something wrong with you. The help have no faces, which, you get the impression, is exactly how the people who make the rules prefer it.

Masks dehumanize. They sever and isolate us from one another.”

Read the entire column.

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Even CNN talking heads now admit that cloth masks are “facial decoration.” Wonder if YouTube will censor CNN? https://t.co/ysTLE55gSe

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 21, 2021

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