Tissue Of Lies: Making Maskaholics For Life

We have reached the Covid demilitarized zone. People walking abroad count fellow citizens wearing— or not wearing— masks. Depending on where you live, a sizeable population still bravely waves their mask flag, wagging fingers at the maskless and demanding fealty to the face diaper.

Lamented one Tweeter: “The numbers have been dropping, but today not one single employee or other customer wore masks. I sometimes wonder if anyone else follows the news.”

Sorry, pal. People stopped following the Covid news on CBC or NBC a while ago. But urban hives remain paralyzed with fear over a virus they can’t eradicate. In Toronto, it’s still vaccines to the rescue. “89.1% of residents 12+ have 2 doses/  65.2% of eligible residents 18+ have 3 doses… For a city of 3 million people, this is remarkable uptake,” notes the chair of Toronto’s Board of Health  “But, our work to accelerate 3rd doses must continue to scale up.” 

What do maskaholics know that no one else does? (Besides fear.) This persists even as exhausted citizens return maskless to stores, schools and sporting events. They want normalcy— ie. five years ago— to return. No masks, no needles, no isolation. 

Then there are the rest. After 26 months of Covid-19 indoctrination, they are going to proudly wear masks almost anytime they interact with people. The maskaholics are hooked. Too late for them to make a health argument anymore. The elite’s campaign to whip the herd on the efficacy of masks has entered the stage where they are now talismans of virtue, not tissues of protection. They wear their fearful defiance on their face. Coercion has worked.

And that’s the takeaway from Covid theatre. If you allow government to change the law for emergencies, they will create emergencies to change the law. The Elon Musk haters have demonstrated that, in concert with their media shills, they can sell any proposition that five years ago was unthinkable to most. Even those who cower behind masks now understand this.

Just not government. Anywhere that Canadian and U.S. government still has media cover— airlines, government offices, political buildings, schools— mandates for masks and vaccines are being extended until summer, even for children. This despite evidence that shows how pointless it is.  “We’ve not seen any significant threat to the health of children,” says Ontario’s Dr. Kieran Moore when asked why there’s no need for a mask mandate in schools. Moore says that out of 2.7m kids in Ontario, only two are in the ICU with Covid.

Still, the teachers unions and civil servants, secure in their superiority, clamour for caution, extra masks and isolation. The middle class is petrified that, like the Witch of the West, they’ll be reduced to a puddle while screaming, “I’m melting… who ever thought a virus like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?” Why? Because they can. Power is its own reward.

The most brutal example of the virus as power for its own sake is, as usual, the CCP government in China. With the recent flareup of a Covid variant in Shanghai, Xi Jinping simply locked down the entire city of 25 million. Sealed them in their homes or apartments where many are now starving to death. Video shows the wild cries and shrieks of the suffering incarcerated in the high rises. Some are jumping to their deaths.

Anyone with symptoms of the virus was immediately whisked off to a detention camp. To ratchet the cruelty their pets were killed on the sidewalks in front of their homes.  Xi knows that lockdowns don’t end pandemics. But Shanghai is China’s most westernized city— with many foreigners— and this serves as a brutal teaching point for Chinese citizens on the extent to which their government will go to quell reforms. 

If you think, “Well, that’s China”. Remember, unvaccinated Canadians still can't leave the country or travel by air. The gullible public believe that when other were restrictions lifted, the travel mandates for unvaccinated also lifted. Sorry, you’ve got the wrong Trudeau. 

Australia— the former penal colony— did their version of lockdown hell a few months ago. Detention camps, lockdowns, arrests in the middle of the night. All in the face of statistics that show scorched-earth  countries like Australia and New Zealand, have fared no better than nations that did little (Sweden).

In many cases the spinoff effects of total virus lockdown— suicide, drug abuse,  crime— have been far worse in countries that adopted the WHO (read: Chinese) standard of heartless care— a standard only employed since the approach of Covid-19. In 2020, alcohol abuse killed more Americans than Covid. 

It has not gone unnoticed that the pandemic ceased to be solely a health issue just months into the panic. Remember how PM Justin Trudeau bunkered himself claiming Covid as an excuse to vilify the Trucker Convoy? And invoke emergency measures?

It was used as a wedge issue in American attempts to remove Donald Trump as president in 2020. With the pandemic as an excuse, voting rules were liberalized (often by Republican governors) allowing ballot harvesting, drop-off boxes and third-party agency. The explosion of votes for Joe Biden and Democrats— he received 18 million more votes than Hilary Clinton in 2016— flipped power in America to progressives.

Government impositions will not end with the pandemic. The arguments over ICU capacity and vaccines will soon give way to the climate hysteria of the Great Reset. The recent federal budget gave strong hints as to how deeply invested the Trudeau government is in pleasing the International community’s Green mania at the cost of its citizens.

In the three years before Trudeau must again face voters, expect the Liberal/ NDP loveless marriage to enforce climate passports, rationed energy, fossil-fuel snitching and travel restrictions. Think that sounds far-fetched? Just look at your fellow citizens still wearing masks full-time and demanding school closures. Who will object in the face of government/ media pressure? Not them. That is your future.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author was nominated for the BBN Business Book award of 2020 for Personal Account with Tony Comper. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book with his son Evan Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx