Mask Mandates Are Unjust Laws

By Deborah Revere

Masks Degrade Your Identity
 
What part of your body most identifies yourself as you? The one true answer to this question should be obvious; it is your face.
 
In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr., proclaims that “[a]ny law that degrades human personality is unjust.”
 
Does making a personal choice to cover one’s face degrade and damage one’s human personality? Not necessarily. In fact, making a personal choice to do so actually expresses and enriches one’s personality more.
 
But does forcing others by law to cover their faces damage and degrade their human personalities?  Certainly.
 
Think about your life since the pandemic occurred and the mask mandates were initiated; think about all the times you tried to smile at someone, but remembered with chagrin that they couldn’t see it.  What is a government achieving by enforcing such a dreadful law? Is it all really for safety, as most argue? Definitely not.
 
The real motive is control. It is for control over you and your relationships, and by proxy, your life. Thus, through wearing your mask, whether you’re healthy or sick, you are submitting to the government’s endless hunger for control over you. By wearing your mask, you are the pawn, and the government is king. 
 
Still not convinced of the tyranny? Think about this. The concept of “sick until proven healthy” sounds a lot like “guilty until proven innocent,” doesn’t it? Considering how similar the two phrases are, it’s surprising to see how only the latter is considered tyrannical while the former has been blindly accepted by the masses. By forcing others to comply with a mask mandate, you are submitting to legislation that has infringed upon your autonomy.
 
The Science
 
Some may argue that wearing a mask is essential to everyday life because the science says that it decreases the risk of otherwise healthy people transmitting COVID-19, and with that, the risk of people dying from or being permanently damaged by COVID-19. This is based on the theory that the virus can be transmitted if one is asymptomatic.
 
However, as we have all been taught in our science classes, science is a fluid, ever-changing field of study. Science does not have concrete borders or rules; even the theory of evolution still needed to be verified and tested repeatedly before being fully accepted as reality. And if one does their own research--particularly for newer issues such as masks and COVID-19--they will usually find that there are just as many doctors that say that one thing is true as opposed to another.
 
For example, this study conducted on ten million residents of Wuhan, China, suggests that transmission of COVID-19 from asymptomatic individuals does not occur.
 
There is also scientific evidence that suggests that masks could actually be harmful to people. For one, in 2008, Dr. Anthony Fauci published a study suggesting that the majority of the deaths from the 1918 influenza pandemic were actually from bacterial pneumonia, not the flu virus itself.  Several parallels exist in both the 1918 and 2020 pandemics, as detailed here.
 
Interestingly, this response by a post-mortem examiner to a paper detailing the risks of wearing masks suggests that the same situation is apparent in the case of COVID-19, including the issue of bacterial growth on masks themselves.
 
The Future of Masks at Council Rock North
 
As of their meeting on May 20th and concurring with the gubernatorial decision to repeal the Pennsylvania mask mandate, the Council Rock School Board has resolved to make masks optional for the 2021-2022 school year. Members from the board such as Joseph Hidalgo and. Michael Thorwart are also leading a crusade to prevent discrimination between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals following this decision.
 
Regardless of your views on this issue, or mine, most people seem to agree that these are positive steps forward in the course of the pandemic. However, as you start going outside and enjoying your God-given mobility again, I strongly encourage you not to forget what happened in 2020. If I were to explain every instance of government overreach in the COVID-19 pandemic, I’d have to write a book.
 
First our overlords ordered us to wear no masks, then it was masks for the infected, then masks for everyone, then a face shield and a mask, then mask and pantyhose over your head, then two masks, then two masks and a mask frame.
 
First our overlords demanded that we wash our hands, then it turned to school closures, then it was statewide lockdowns and curfews.
 
First our overlords proclaimed it would be three weeks to flatten the curve, then three months, then a year and three months.
 
It’s time to stop this nationwide maskquerade.

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