I never wore a mask. I feel particularly concerned about the message that wearing one would send to my kids.
It didn’t require bravery to go against the flow of strangers. It was just a decision I made because I care more what my kids think of me than the world around us.
I already had to explain to my kids why people were wearing masks, and since I had to tell them it was the Emperor’s New Clothes in real time and there was no scientific basis for it no matter what consensus of doctors who say otherwise without hard data to support their fraudulent claims, I was going to have to show my kids that we don’t need to fit in with absurdity and fallacious nonsense. For my kids, I needed to be consistent.
As for the argument about making other people feel safer, we don’t lie to people. If they need to feel safer, they need to start making decisions that actually safeguard themselves: eating better, getting more sleep, getting sunshine and if need be in case of serious immune compromise THEY need to stay home- not healthy people. Health has never been about what bacteria, mold or even virus you come in contact with, but how your body handles it. People who handle stress and toxins well are healthy. They should not be compromising themselves and their good health in unhealthy and insane ways to pretend that others are safe who haven’t safeguarded themselves logically, scientifically and responsibly.
We don’t go along with the crowd and let the Emperor walk around in his undies and pretend we see something that isn’t there to make other people feel better about the lies they tell themselves. It’s not fair to anyone.
It doesn’t convey compassion to lie to people about something they need to know. If there is something deadly out in the world, we need to arm people with REAL and RESPONSIBLE, tested and proved solutions that do not compromise the healthy, not dogma and fairytales.
Whatever the antidote to this is, I know too many healthy people who like me have not changed their behaviors in any way, who haven’t compromised the people around them in any noticeable way, who seem to be the control group for this experiment. We bear out the good science. We prove that masks are irrelevant in slowing any spread of respiratory viruses as already backed by good science. We prove once again that the Chinese contact tracing study that could not link a single case in a million people to asymptomatic transmission was accurate. We proved again hat asymptomatic people are not any threat much less a significant one. We prove that health comes from responsible diets and lifestyle choices, not a face covering or injection of toxins.
But more than all of this, we prove that joy and kindness do not stem from fear and irrationality. We can see from the overwhelming demonstrations around us that joy, kindness and TRUE tolerance come from an air of confidence, self sufficiency and self ownership.
Fear and irrationality cause people to feel out of control and insecure. When people feel insecure, in an irrational way, they can be lead to do terrible things toward each other to gain a false sense of control and security through dominating the behaviors of others. They can be lead to marginalize human beings and attack healthy people to keep them in the masks that make them feel safe and compliant.
We see this with literal and metaphorical masks.
Only people who feel insecure try to bring down those they feel are confident and display a perceived superiority in success, joy, health, wealth and love.
If you shine your light, healthy people will gravitate toward you, but the unhealthy and insecure, particularly those people with a strong victim identity will want to hide from the possibility that humans could improve themselves and acquire peace and health and happiness without controlling the behavior of others. If need be, they will seek to sabotage you to maintain their status quo belief that everyone is equally miserable and insignificant.
Despite that, we’ll never know who all the healthy people are or how many until someone shines a light. However dark it gets, the light always wins. You can’t bring a bucket of darkness into a lighted room.
So when you show your face, do so with a smile. That way they will know us by the whites of our teeth. For those who need compassion, the real compassion comes from aligning with truth. The truth is that we need to forgive them and love them anyway, for they truly know not what they do.