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?
Thanks for your comment Taryn. I'm very sorry you have to live under this sort of unjust and irrational mask regime. Spain is, sadly, also immersed in a quasi-religious commitment to masking. Living in a society immersed in superstitious and anti-scientific beliefs and practices, and having to pay for those beliefs with your health and personal comfort, is not a pleasant thing to have to do. Defend yourself with whatever licit means you can. Perhaps you can find a way to get a medical mask exemption?
Unfortunately, I don't know a single person with a medical exemption. I am hoping more and more people are just getting sick of them now, as we are so obviously not in any danger, and that more and more will just stop complying wherever possible.
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.
I agree that it is disgraceful how children have been masked in Spain from an early age. With no solid scientific evidence to back it up. Many parents mask their small children in Spain. It really makes me want to tell them they are deeply misguided and doing more harm than good. But instead, I just make sure their children can see at least one smiling face that day!
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?
Thanks for your comment Taryn. I'm very sorry you have to live under this sort of unjust and irrational mask regime. Spain is, sadly, also immersed in a quasi-religious commitment to masking. Living in a society immersed in superstitious and anti-scientific beliefs and practices, and having to pay for those beliefs with your health and personal comfort, is not a pleasant thing to have to do. Defend yourself with whatever licit means you can. Perhaps you can find a way to get a medical mask exemption?
Unfortunately, I don't know a single person with a medical exemption. I am hoping more and more people are just getting sick of them now, as we are so obviously not in any danger, and that more and more will just stop complying wherever possible.
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?
You're right, I just corrected it, thanks for pointing that out!
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.
I agree that it is disgraceful how children have been masked in Spain from an early age. With no solid scientific evidence to back it up. Many parents mask their small children in Spain. It really makes me want to tell them they are deeply misguided and doing more harm than good. But instead, I just make sure their children can see at least one smiling face that day!