There's a strange new meme in town. Die hard pro-maskers are not only tucking their masks extra tight around their noses when approached by a mask-less person. They turn away when we pass them on narrow sidewalks. This happened on several occasions on my morning walk today. The fearful serfs stopped and faced away from me. My response was to thank them for their concern. Obrigado, my friends!
However, the majority of people are not wearing their masks as advised. They are sick and tired of the charade, and they are certainly not signing up on the stupid and impolite nonsense surrounding the mask. No-body wants to behave like a serf in the presence of strangers, and all this nose tucking and turning away does have a generous whiff of subservience to it.
It's encouraging to see so few adopt the subservient gestures promoted by the elite. They would love nothing more than to see everyone fearfully bow and look away in shame. But it's not going to happen. However, they did manage to trick a lot of people into taking other people's untested medicine.
The strangest part of the whole vaccine circus is that it's the first time a medicine has been pushed on a purely collectivist logic. Just about everyone takes it, not for themselves, but for the good of others. The argument is anchored in the success of other vaccines. However, the small pox and polio vaccines were never pushed primarily as collectivist projects. We took these vaccines to protect ourselves. The fact that this also protected others was merely a happy side-effect.
The happy side-effect of two tried and tested vaccines has morphed into a primary reason. We're seeing Lucifer's twisted logic applied to vaccines. It sounds all noble and great, but it's nothing less than pure evil when we look closer into it.
Imagine a case in which a child is suffering from a deadly allergy to other people. This child must live forever isolated in a bubble. However, there is a cheap, safe and effective medicine that others can take to alleviate the child's allergy. If everybody takes this medicine, the child is free to live a normal life.
Does it follow from this that we should all take this medicine? It's cheap, effective and safe. Why not make it mandatory? Wouldn't it be selfish not to take it?
A quick calculation will reveal who's really selfish in this situation:
Let's say that the medicine can be had for 10 dollars, and it takes only 30 minutes out of each person's life to get it. With 8 billion people on the planet, that's 80 billion dollars and 4 billion hours spent on the operation. That's multiple times more money than the child is likely to generate in a lifetime, and a total loss of hours amounting to half a million years.
What sounds like a trivial sacrifice is in reality a huge loss. The correct solution to the child's problem isn't to force everybody to take the medicine, but to advice the child's family and friends to take it, and let everyone else alone.
It's never a good idea to take a medicine for anyone but ourselves, save in a very limited range of extreme cases such as the above mentioned child. The correct remedy is to isolate the ill as much as possible and to let everybody else continue with their lives. Anything else is not only morally unjustifiable, it's immensely costly and damaging to the collective.
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