The President of the United States has now, on several occasions, held virtual meetings while wearing a face mask. He has also had meetings with other vaccinated leaders and continued to wear a mask.
Progressives are fretful about wearing masks outside until Dr. Fauci gives the okay, despite the best science for an entire year showing it is safe to be outside without a mask on. In Massachusetts, one must wear a mask outside even if alone with not a soul in sight.
This is getting ridiculous.
Israel is now on consecutive days with no COVID deaths because Israel has been able to get its population vaccinated with a clear message of returning to normal.
The Biden Administration’s message continues to be to get a vaccine, possibly skip a day of work to feel miserable, then go back to isolation, mask wearing, social distancing, etc.
That is exactly not the message to offer up if you want Americans to get the vaccine. The President should be leading by example — take off the mask and live a normal life, emphasizing he can do so because he is vaccinated.
Public health officials need to be beating the drum as loudly as they can — get vaccinated and take off the mask. Instead, our public health officials are playing it so cautiously that they are risk undermining their entire message. They themselves, through their repeated behaviors and statements, have helped undermine the desire of many Americans to get vaccinated and go back to normal.
This starts at the top. The President of the United States needs to make it clear that he can take off his mask because he is vaccinated and everyone else can too after they get vaccinated.
The status quo risks a set back as Americans both stop wearing a mask and fail to get vaccinated because the public health talking points continue to be too risk adverse.
This is all very stupid. The bottom line is that the vaccines work and the government of the United States is, on a daily basis, signaling that they don’t.
This is no surprise. That "lockdown madness" has to be preserved, and even expanded reflects a revelation of the real purpose of regulation, as explained by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be [placed] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."
And what better opportunity for government to remind its subjects (NOT citizens; citizenship implies an active ownership of government, something notably present in the Founders' vision, but notably absent today.) what they are, and what their being governed really means?
It's not stupid it's not ridiculous. He's setting an example. He's trying to contribute to an acceptable cultural practice for those people in our population who are not yet vaccinated. Stop inciting outrage.