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The Man With the Mask
The man with the mask has succumbed to a pandemic of mass-insanity. For he is not alone. He is just one of hundreds of millions around the world.
I saw this picture in a Facebook post, it was taken this morning in Iceland. The photographer was a bit shocked by what he saw. Someone said in a comment that the man "was free" to wear a mask. That it was his choice.
Let’s think about it: The man is outside cleaning a car. Even if the mask prevented him from becoming infected with Covid-19 (which those masks do not really do), someone would have to be close to the man for him to become infected. But there is no one near the man. That is to say: the masking is completely pointless, it is only inconvenient for the man.
What does it take for people to do something like this, completely pointless and also inconvenient for them? There are only two possibilities; obedience, or unfounded fear, coupled with an irrational belief. Obedience is out of the question; there is no mask mandate in Iceland. The only possibility therefore, is unfounded fear, coupled with the irrational belief that a mask will protect a lone man outdoors from the object of his fear, when the object of his fear isn’t even anywhere near him.
Unfounded fear and irrational beliefs are signs of insanity. The man with the mask has succumbed to a pandemic of mass-insanity. For he is not alone. He is just one of hundreds of millions around the world.
(Photograph by Einar Sigurjónsson)
The only explanation I have ever been able to come up with for behaviour like this is that they have put this thing on following "correct protocols" and don't want to touch it again until they have finished being where they needed to wear one of these. But - he looks like he's washing his car or something? Does he not know that a moist environment negates any filtration efficiency a "mask" like that had to start with?
substitute the word 'mask' with 'crucifix'. would you make the same argument?