Unpacking Truth

Will Some Mask Forever

Based on the small population that I serve, I can say with resounding certainty that there will be a decent percentage of the population that never wants to take their mask off in public again. Well over a year ago, I stopped requiring masks on my patients as necessary to enter my office. But, 99.8% of my patients continue to mask, many still double mask. Often when I enter the room to greet them, they are still wearing their mask and I have to remind them to take it off so I can do my job. One particular young woman (about 35 years of age), apologized that she still had both masks on when I reminded her to remove them. She went on to say how comfortable she was wearing two masks and that they felt like her security blanket. I have teenagers who will put their mask on between the short period of time when the hygienist finishes seeing them and when I come in to do my exam. I have had patients tell me that they will never fly again without wearing a mask.

I have tried talking to some of them. I have attempted to educate them on the strict hygienic requirements of wearing a mask to prevent contamination of both the mask and their faces. Usually they look at me with a blank stare with little comprehension of the information I am trying to share.

One of my favorite doctors and authors, Dr. Mark McDonald, recently wrote this article about why some will continue this useless behavior.

It’s been quite cold here in Los Angeles recently. I spotted a woman sitting outside on a park bench, wearing a mask. “Why are you wearing that?” I asked her. “It keeps me warm,” she said. From fear to face warmer. Progress? Perhaps you’ll argue that it’s her “choice” to use a face diaper as a face warmer. Fair enough. But what if that choice is an illusion? What if we have all been lied to and conditioned to engage in behaviors that harm ourselves and others, all the while under the impression that we are simply making a choice?

I respect a person’s choice to wear a mask but I struggle with their logic being based on a false belief grounded in lies they have been fed for over two years.

If you are not a Muslim woman displaying your proof of purchase, a surgeon operating on a patient in the OR, or a criminal engaged in an illegal act, you have no business covering your face. To believe otherwise renders you a fool. For large groups of people to continue to behave this way reeks of a cultural injection—similar to an mRNA injection—of toxicity, a redefining of values that has led to widespread social damage. Why do so many people make such bad choices? They have allowed themselves to follow experts.

The problem is that experts are not always honest. Think of Anthony Fauci, exposed as a liar multiple times by Senator Rand Paul. When truth is sacrificed as recommendations are made, there can be no real choice. This is why informed consent is foundational in the provision of medical care. A doctor telling a patient to agree to a procedure simply because “it’s good for you” is not acting either responsibly or ethically. He must include all meaningful risks as well as potential benefits; otherwise, a patient cannot make a choice to accept the recommendation.

Fauci et al tried to produce ‘science’ to prove masks work. To portray the role of informing the public of their pseudo benefit based on junk research that would be the laughing stock of any credible institution had it been presented prior to 2020. These gullible citizens have been played and after a short intermission of COVID nonsense, these same individuals are being taken for another ride by the same people that lied to them for two years.

It now appears that the only road available to us is an international war. Recent government advice suggested that it’s important to “stay safe” by remaining six feet apart while seeking cover in a bomb shelter. We’re also told that it’s a sign of virtue to accept $7 per gallon gas prices as a sign of support for the Ukrainian people. Oh, and why not swap your vehicle out for an electric car as well. Greater suffering means you are a better person. What will you sacrifice this time, to follow the road recommended by experts?

As I have previously mentioned, I am not well versed in world politics and struggle to understand the Russia-Ukraine war that is happening. I do know that I don’t trust our media, most politicians and very few in Hollywood. When the people that I have grown to distrust are all singing the same song, I am on high alert that there is more to the story and attention is being diverted.

Now we have a new threat of annihilation, one we may truly experience if we continue to listen to the experts who advocate for a new war. Perhaps it’s time for Americans to think for themselves and ask the age-old question, “Cui bono?” There is a high probability that those throwing their support behind any movement stand to benefit from it. Will you?