The Netherlands ended all mask mandates except on public transport yesterday, 25th February 2022. Today I went to a supermarket, for the first time in nearly two years, in which not a single person was masked. Not a single customer, and not a single employee. And it seemed quite unremarkable, and perfectly normal. It was almost as if mask mandates had never existed. Yet they
Living in South Africa I feel quite a sense of despair over mask mandates. We were one of the first countries to be completely overtaken by omicron, signalling the end of the pandemic and the vast majority of citizens are living or want to live normal lives. Yet, our government is refusing to drop mask mandates and seem to be using them as coercion to push the vaccination agenda and telling us that they'll remain in place until our 30% vaccination rate vastly increases. Yet of course we have done quite fine without the vaccine (as hard as they try to manipulate the stats) and our citizens have clearly decided that the vast majority of us simply do not want it and will never take it. We have natural herd immunity and the virus poses no significant threat. The complete failure to accept reality, which can only be to further the narrative our government has been told to push, is completely soul destroying for any thinking person. Many of us simply refuse to obey whenever we can remotely get away with it and for the rest simply avoid going anywhere that enforces mask mandates. Will this ever be over?
Here in Spain, our kids have been breathing their own respiratory waste since Sept 2020. And now the governmedia’s monomania is the war on Europe’s doorstep. Of course the lives and rights of people in other countries are important, but Spain’s own children have been abjectly failed and abandoned. Here, it’s every child left behind.
Living in South Africa I feel quite a sense of despair over mask mandates. We were one of the first countries to be completely overtaken by omicron, signalling the end of the pandemic and the vast majority of citizens are living or want to live normal lives. Yet, our government is refusing to drop mask mandates and seem to be using them as coercion to push the vaccination agenda and telling us that they'll remain in place until our 30% vaccination rate vastly increases. Yet of course we have done quite fine without the vaccine (as hard as they try to manipulate the stats) and our citizens have clearly decided that the vast majority of us simply do not want it and will never take it. We have natural herd immunity and the virus poses no significant threat. The complete failure to accept reality, which can only be to further the narrative our government has been told to push, is completely soul destroying for any thinking person. Many of us simply refuse to obey whenever we can remotely get away with it and for the rest simply avoid going anywhere that enforces mask mandates. Will this ever be over?
Another great article but I'm wondering if you meant this comment this way:
So it is very hard to see how we can justify imposing it through coercive mandates, let alone recommending it
Surely it's the other way round?
Here in Spain, our kids have been breathing their own respiratory waste since Sept 2020. And now the governmedia’s monomania is the war on Europe’s doorstep. Of course the lives and rights of people in other countries are important, but Spain’s own children have been abjectly failed and abandoned. Here, it’s every child left behind.