discussing Euclid with a rooster; psychology of the mask -- Coronavirus: Thread

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 06:41:54AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> "We Are The People" - German Protesters Clash With Police Over New
> Coronavirus Restrictions
> 
> Thousands of demonstrators on Wednesday protested against the German
> government's attempt to enact additional coronavirus restrictions.
> German police were forced to unleash water cannons and pepper spray to
> disperse angry crowds in Berlin's government district, according to
> Deutsche Welle (DW).
> 
> Around 190 protesters were arrested, and nine police officers were
> injured after clashes in central Berlin. Police said large crowds
> ignored repeated calls to wear face masks and practice safe social
> distancing - though none of the requests were followed by protesters.
> 
> "Police calling on demonstrators to leave. Lots of booing.
> Demonstrators want to access cordoned-off area around parliament where
> new additions to infection law are being debated [at the moment,],"
> DW's Nina Haase said.



The psychology of the mask:

   "He means obey. And not merely obey.

    I must agree.

    I must show that I agree . . . by wearing a visible accoutrement
    of agreement.
   "



   'Virtuous Hypochondria': How One Man Lost A 'Friend' Of 20 Years...
   https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2020/12/02/diaper-report-12-3-20/
   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/virtuous-hypochondria-how-one-man-lost-friend-20-years

      I parted ways yesterday with a friend of more than 20 years’
      standing over his sickness – and my refusal to indulge it or even
      pretend to ignore it.

      This ex-friend says I should don the Holy Rag because “I might be
      asymptomatic” and because I ought to “show a little respect for
      your fellow man” and that “It’s not all about you.” He added:

         “Grow your own food and you don’t need to interact with people.
         But if you want the benefits of society you have to participate
         and conform a bit.”

      Italics added.

      So I said good-bye.

      I “have to conform a bit”? I am obliged to literally show that I
      (supposedly) agree with the outrageous assertion that I might be
      sick – i.e., “asymptomatic” – and so present an ongoing,
      never-ending threat to other people that requires me to wear a
      Face Diaper – the religious vestment of the Sickness Cult – to
      assuage their fears?

      I attempted to reason with this friend.

      It was like attempting to discuss Euclid with a rooster.

         “I’m not sick,” I texted him.

         “I’ve had two friends die from it,” he texted back. “And
         several still sick.”

         Me: “Well, I’m not sick. Therefore, I cannot transmit sickness.
         Therefore, wearing a rag over my face serves no medical
         purpose.”

         Him: “You might be asymptomatic.”

         Me: “Okay, so you are saying that the possibility I might be
         sick – even though I’m not coughing or sneezing or manifesting
         any symptoms of sickness and so there is no
         evidentiary/specific reason to suppose I am in fact sick, much
         less contagious – obligates me to act as if I am in fact sick
         and contagious and to literally put on something as a
         ‘protective’ measure, just in case and to ease your fears?”

         “In that case, why shouldn’t you be obliged to turn in your
         guns (my ex-friend likes guns) since many people are quite
         terrified of them and fear you might use them to harm them or
         someone they care about?”

         “If my fear that you might be – or do – some thing is enough to
         impose an obligation on you, then how do you feel about being
         made to wear an armband or similar highly visible item
         indicating that you are gay (my ex-friend is homosexual) and
         thus a potential transmitter of AIDS?”

         “The fact is you could possibly transmit AIDs. You might spit
         on me. You might rape someone. These are just as possible as
         ‘you might be asymptomatic’ ”...

      He didn’t like that much – and that was the end of the texting and
      the friendship.

      I do not mourn the loss.

      Because I understand this person is not and may never have been my
      friend. A friend doesn’t threaten violence nor countenance its
      threat. Yet that is precisely what my ex-friend advocates – in a
      mewling, gas-lighting way – when he urges me to “wear a mask” to
      “show a little respect for (my) fellow man” and then says I am
      obliged to “conform a little bit.”

      He means obey. And not merely obey.

      I must agree.

      I must show that I agree . . . by wearing a visible accoutrement
      of agreement.

      Like the wearing of an armband, in another time.

      To not wear the armband then – or the Holy Rag now – is to give
      visual evidence of non-agreement and that is what these creeps
      cannot stand.

      Not that we are “asymptomatic” and might be plague carriers but
      that we disagree with them. That we do not share their virtuous
      hypochondria and by showing that we do not share it show contempt
      for it.

      My now-ex-friend supports my being made to “conform a little bit”
      – and you, too. They will cheer when we are hounded by the
      Gesundheitpolizei for not wearing the Holy Rag and – soon –
      refusing to allow ourselves to be injected with god-knows-what.
      They will support our being excommunicated from life – not allowed
      to transact business, buy food.

      “If you want the benefits of society you have to participate and
      conform a bit.”

      Such people are no friends of mine.

      The words attributed to Edward I – the “longshanks” – come to
      mind: “A man does good business when he rids himself of a turd.