Masks have long since become a political tool. If they ever were effective otherwise.

I have lots of friends in Oregon. Maybe they will start moving here.

When is someone going to start portraying the "progressives" and "liberals" as the regressives and the illiberals that they are? Oh yeah, Ayn Rand.

My favorite pub was a jolly place today. No masks outside or inside. 'Course it's been this way since the beginning. But we had real ketchup, mayo, and mustard in their original containers. No little packets! Nice.

Where in the hell is that big quake that's supposed to rip off the left coast and drown it in the sea when you need it?

I have asked the question "Why didn't we wear masks for the last 50 years?" COVID was not that big of a change. We could have been "saving" people for decades. If the life of one person can be used to compel the rest to slavery, freedom is gone. Driving could be abolished tomorrow, and save tens of thousands... if you don't look beyond your nose.

They still require masks in certain places in MA. I have been playing indoor soccer, so comply. I made a mask out of an elastic SUV cargo net, with roughly 3/4 in holes while not expanded. From across the field, one can't tell. It is a mask.
Most of my soccer buddies think it is hilarious, and avoid their own "water boarding" by pulling the masks down while playing. The ones that don't like it either stopped coming (perhaps in general) or keep their mouths shut. My nickname didn't come from fiction.
NH just stopped masks in public. Private places can do as they like. Nashua (overrun by MA) is the only city that has a local mask ordinance.

The Placebo Masks
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Mere 3 feet distancing and frequent handwashing is more effective than a mask. Also, I wonder how many false positives or misdiagnosed cases there are. The epidemy of such cases is the one from Florida in which a young, otherwise healthy man, died after a motorcycle accident trauma, but was counted as a Wuhan virus death because he allegedly tested positive.

Masks do more harm than good. The harms include Pleurisy, Hypoxia, Bacterial Pneumonia, Face Lesions, dental problems. But, that is the reason "blue" states have insisted on them. They needed to get the sickness and death numbers UP to increase their control. See: Blue State nursing homes for reference. ;-)

Now that COVID is finally receding, look for those states to tighten their grip as they understand people won't take much more of it.

Also, look for "climate change" hysteria to increase exponentially.

These people NEVER give up. I wish our side had the same single-mindedness towards LIBERTY and the tenacity to never give up on it.

This is becoming a flipped version of the yellow Star of David Jews had to wear in Hitler's Germany. Anyone seen without a mask will be the target of public condemnation and hostility. This idea would make law enforcement action against "antimaskers" real, with possible criminal charges. It's a good way to root out those obnoxious people who insist on individual liberty.

I think the people in Oregon and Washington need to stop drinking the water. There's definitely something wrong with it.

A scene from a future movie made in Oregon.
"Hey, sheriff, who was that masked man?"
"Don't 'cha know? That was The Lone Sheeple!"

WELL, thank you Oregon for convincing me to NEVER visit your worthless state. For years now they said that vaccination is our savior. Now, it means nothing and we still need stupid masks?

I lasted a whole year only with my my own immunity (however much that was), and now I am vaccinated at have supposedly 94% immunity, but I still have to wear a mask that gives nowhere like 94% protection. Stupid. Government has pretty much lost my support. Its even person for himself now.

Masks are about control, period. From the beginning, there were over 20 studies proving that. Now, there are even more. Our town, we do not use them except to get into grocery, avoid retail. We have places we can grab coffee togheehr maskless, which we have been doing for a year now. We also avoid vaccines. We have remained healthy, happy, and informed, tahanks to interaction, germ spreading and old afshioned common sense..

I just don't bother with the face diaper anymore... of course, other than some locals such as the bank, etc... Odd bit -- I am at the summit of Mt. Hood in Oregon -- and some of the climbers had on the muzzle -- not a balaclava, a muzzle ... atop a mountain ... in the wind. The folks on the west side of the Cascades, are by and large, still buying the hokum. Folks here on the east side of the mountains have been skeptics for well over a year.

This is going to add fuel to the "Greater Idaho" movement for sure.

Hat tip to https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/... for pointing to The existing scientific evidences challenge the safety and efficacy of wearing facemask as preventive intervention for COVID-19. The data suggest that both medical and non-medical facemasks are ineffective to block human-to-human transmission of viral and infectious disease such SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, supporting against the usage of facemasks. Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects. These include hypoxia, hypercapnia, shortness of breath, increased acidity and toxicity, activation of fear and stress response, rise in stress hormones, immunosuppression, fatigue, headaches, decline in cognitive performance, predisposition for viral and infectious illnesses, chronic stress, anxiety and depression. Long-term consequences of wearing facemask can cause health deterioration, developing and progression of chronic diseases and premature death. Governments, policy makers and health organizations should utilize prosper and scientific evidence-based approach with respect to wearing facemasks, when the latter is considered as preventive intervention for public health. [ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
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I would scofflaw any edict to continue wearing a mask with no further medical purpose and hopefully get cited or arrested for my day in court with appeals as necessary. Its constitutonally questionable even under the current circumstances

John Ioannidis would agree.