Sick of Wearing of Covid Mask? by David Gordon

By David Gordon, Church Militant, March 12, 2021

It’s your fault for not speaking up sooner

Sick of the draconian COVID restrictions? So are all free thinkers. But while it’s (rightly) in vogue in conservative circles to condemn the asinine lockdowns and “safety measures” imposed by bungling civil authorities drunk on their own power, almost none have had the intellectual sobriety to wonder, “How did we arrive at this precarious place where politicians feel comfortable issuing edicts that interfere so drastically with our everyday lives?” While it’s gratifying to lampoon the mask-wearing drones who goose-step along with the authoritarian edicts of governmental overlords, we’re far less comfortable pointing the proverbial finger at ourselves for our silent compliance with subtler instances of government overreach in our daily lives. And yet, our sheepishness in the face of more-innocuous “commonsense” regulations is precisely what paved the way for the leviathan State that is suffocating us today under cover of the present “pandemic.” …