Is The Surgical Mask Now A Pacifier For Adults?

As governments around the world lift mandates for masks in all spaces, I am amazed how many people continue to wear them, even outside.
I was listening to Tony Robbins the other day and he said those most fearful of Covid basically do a reverse Placebo on themselves. With that logic those most fearful keep wearing masks, and are at even greater risk, that by all professional opinions are protecting the people around them; not themselves.
Guys with beards wearing masks don't even get a proper seal at all.

The MSM and society turned the surgical mask into an adult pacifier, and it's pathetic.
People still wearing masks, but out for walks all alone, maybe trying to get some fresh air, really concern me, their personal ability to think independently has been reduced to zero now, going way beyond what the government or medicine requires, perpetually trapped in 2020 with their new adult pacifier.

a reply to: Blue_Jay33

they won't hurt you, they are now more of some comedy relief than anything. The one's driving alone in their car, wearing a mask. That's just funny to me. Don't let this bother you at all, as long as nobody is trying to get you to put a diaper on your face.

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Blue_Jay33

they won't hurt you, they are now more of some comedy relief than anything. The one's driving alone in their car, wearing a mask. That's just funny to me. Don't let this bother you at all, as long as nobody is trying to get you to put a diaper on your face.

That is true, but they are at the point where they are choosing to dehumanize themselves around other more emotionally balanced people. I look at them not with any fear at all; but absolute pity.

a reply to: Blue_Jay33

I'm sure there is a little pitty in there, but as I said, for the little old lady driving here Ford Focus down the road, wearing a mask and all alone inside her car is going to provoke a large smile from me, every time. But I see your point, as it's usually followed by a shaking of the head.

a reply to: Blue_Jay33

Some are still scared.

Some use it as a control and virtue signalling mechanism.

Either way SMH.

a reply to: Blue_Jay33

I look at them not with any fear at all; but absolute pity.

Naw , "stupid is as stupid does"
Forrest Gump.

Yes. Yes it is. I expected it, as I live in the center of a Smurf village but not to the degree I witness daily. I work for a large indoctrination station, the first day we were ‘given permission’ to take it off (outside only) I was the only adult not wearing and it looked like even more kids made sure they kept their mask up. Now only 3-4 people don’t don the suffocation device on the outside. We’re still not allowed to take it off indoors. On the streets, people wearing it under their chins still will put it over their nose when they see me coming from 50 feet away. People still cross the street or do their imaginary 6 foot swerve around me if they walk by. The same people that told them to suffocate themselves, gave them permission to take it off …and they still won’t.

a reply to: network dude

The one's driving alone in their car, wearing a mask.

I saw my first experience of that just the other day .
Stopped at a red light and the lady was going down the street .
When my light changed to green , folks were tooting their horns .
I just could not move , I was laughing so hard .
And in a State that has never had a "mask mandate"

a reply to: Blue_Jay33
We have a guy at work that will wear a mask one day and then not the next. Then another day he wore a surgical mask with a cloth mask over it. My guess is he isn't right in the head, but it's his head so he can have at it. I'm just glad I'm not in there. SMH

a reply to: Tarzan the apeman.

My guess is he isn't right in the head, but it's his head so he can have at it.

You make a good point, most of us were given the advise to stay away from the crazy ones, this would apply in relationships and potential employees or bosses too.
If I was interviewing for a job, at this point and they were wearing a mask and asked me to put on mask, I would just walk out. If I was hiring I might ask them to take off their mask, just to see their reaction.

a reply to: Blue_Jay33

Anybody that comments to me about a mask now that the mandates are lifted will be asked why they're anti-government and anti-science.

They told us to trust the authorities for two years. They gave us dirty looks. They tried to get us removed from society. They wanted us silenced. Now that the authorities have abandoned the masking charade why should they not face the same push?

When can I expect the hotlines to report the wild conspiracy theorists that are still wearing masks when the government says they don't have to? Will people promoting mask use on Twitter have a warning next to their post? When will celebrities use their platforms to demand action against the purveyors of dangerous pseudoscience?

Finally, the questions I really want answered in light of all this. Since they're anti-science and anti-government, is it safe to assume those wearing masks post-mandate are Trump supporting white supremacists? Can I rest easy knowing the FBI is monitoring this dangerous fringe group for signs of domestic terrorism?

It is a symptom of a society ready to capitulate to being a slave race so it should bother people.

Yes it is, it was always nothing more than a placebo.

Now people cling to it and obsess over doom porn being pumped out by their 24 news channel of choice.

One nice thing about being a conspiracy nutter I know how to decouple from the 24 hr fear fest.

IDK about a pacifier.
I do view it as a political face diaper.
And what sewer did Faucci slime down too?
Haven't heard from him for several weeks. My guess is that he'll be releasing a new SARS-CoVID varient very soon.

a reply to: Blue_Jay33


If you choose to not wear a mask and someone else chooses to wear one unless you both know all the variables then how can you say either choice is good or bad?

Doesn't freedom of choice apply both ways or is it only applicable to the topics that ATS is fast becoming an echo chamber for?

I went to the grocery store yesterday after work. I pull into my parking spot and ready myself for departure. As I sit and confirm I have my wallet (can't stand driving with a wallet in my back pocket) and my small, albeit very expensive grocery list, I see a gentleman pull into an adjacent parking spot. I take notice to his haphazardly parking, but also to the mask adorning his face. I've been maskless for about a year now, so I too find it ridiculous for a single operator with no passengers to don a mask. But as I looked closer, I observed at least eight to ten more masks hanging from his rear view mirror, being displayed like a hunter displays his best kills. Then I realized as stupid as that is, I'm sitting in my car staring at people.... So I go about my business, spending hundreds of dollars on a bag of groceries. But yeah it's ridiculous, ironic and downright funny at times, but to each his, hers or Z's own.

a reply to: Blue_Jay33

I can’t help looking at them there, alone in their car, and think that they will be the people.

The people who will comply.
The people who will believe what they are told without questioning.
The people who will live in irrational fear.

The people who will gladly give up every freedom they have for their safety while insisting the rest of us do the same.

We haven’t seen the last of them.

Nobody really ever wore them in my area of rural PA. Even my local gas stations and stores never enforced the regulations.
Same with climate change, racism, and the Ukraine, nobody around me seems to be concerned with any of this nonsense.

originally posted by: MykeNukem
a reply to: Blue_Jay33

Some are still scared.

Some use it as a control and virtue signalling mechanism.

Either way SMH.

BC dropped the mask mandate so quick from Bonnie ramping things up one day, to masks off the next, that I think many here don't know and still think they have to wear them.

Adult pacifier is a good term for it, pacifying fears and objections equally.

originally posted by: opethPA
a reply to: Blue_Jay33


If you choose to not wear a mask and someone else chooses to wear one unless you both know all the variables then how can you say either choice is good or bad?

Doesn't freedom of choice apply both ways or is it only applicable to the topics that ATS is fast becoming an echo chamber for?

Last I checked freedom of choice also applied to those that want to ridicule others that are irrational anti-science zealots.

There is virtually no scientific evidence that random cloth masks do anything against airborne illness prior to panicked studies looking to justify the preposterous 180 Fauci did. There's still very little evidence. This hasn't really changed in decades.

I don't think there's a monolithic echo chamber here. There may be popular opinion on topics and there may be cliques within groups, but it's far from the same people always on the same side. People that agree with me have even taken to arguing with me recently because argument is their default social posture. Thanks media and government, thanks for pitting people against one another.

The time to be concerned about echo chambers was two years ago when the echo chamber started talking about violating human rights. Little late to decide now things have gone too far because people are being made fun of. Seems a bit contrived and inauthentic.