masks have no benefit in that situation. it's like trying to stop a mosquito with a chain link fence. all you're doing is advertising medical illiteracy and fear based compliance to authority. that and contaminate every surface you touch with the hand you use to adjust your mask.
a friend of a friend of mine started that whole mmiw thing. huge amount of research work. but what they rarely ever mention on the news is that woman comprise only 29% of missing murdered indigenous *people* (ie. the rest are men).
or we could just ban banning stuff altogether so that no matter how bigoted a person is, they will never have the power to anything more than make their face look like a dried prune when you're nearby.
#1. keep you clean and comfortable. #2. signal group membership/status. #3. signal sexual availability.
a person has the choice as to which should be emphasized in one's daily wardrobe. it amazes me how offended people get when they receive exactly the sort of attention they were clearly seeking.
I guess the reason jewish oligarchs like igor kolomoisky (owner of controlling interest in burisma holdings) fund overtly neo-nazi groups like azov in cooperation with the cia and various ngos since 2014, is largely to prevent russia making any claim over oil and natgas resources (etc) in donbas which they are contending for (having already lost crimea). but as the initial instigators and ideological front, neo-nazis eventually exhaust their cultural cache, especially among liberals, and can be adequately replaced with ex-nato/mercenary forces now that the cannon fodder is mostly out of the way. the job of polishing the turd was completed by all the token blue/yellow profile images and collective bleating of "slava ukraini!" (originally a white nationalist slogan), so they don't even really need to sweep the whole neo-nazi business under the rug anymore.
...and I would suspect that to one extent or another this is being orchestrated so that in the future there will be some plausible excuse to turn on the domestic population. at least the plebs.
I use duality a lot in my own thinking, but it starts with difference/similarity (observed) vs comparison/choice (observer). it's more akin to yin/yang. those 4 are the elements of sensation which together provides the ability to sense kind (aka: type, category, group, set, etc). each is a prerequisite for the rest to exist.
similarly the basic kinds of sensation are space/time, body/psyche, other/self. the first 4 elements above are applied in the context of these 6, so that for example, past and future evolve from comparison and choice in a temporal context, measure from space and body, each of the 5 to 14+ bodily senses, hot from rough from heavy, etc. and so on. morality enters the picture with pain and pleasure, which direct living beings generally from one toward the other like stick vs carrot. they express as need and satisfaction, and project in the psyche into a context other than here/now as fear and desire. the naturally emergent moral of nature is kindness, the prevention and minimization of unnecessary suffering. anyway, lots more, but dichotomies aren't all bad. in fact even to have the idea of there being such thing as "one", there must exist many to provide it a meaning in context. difference is prerequisite for consciousness to even exist.
I can't speak as a semite, but a similar idea exists within some shamanic worldviews, where elements of nature like a meadow, or a forest, have a spirit, which is comprised of all the beings which dwell within it, each of which has it's own individual spirit also. even a particular bend in a river has a spirit distinct from both the spirit of the whole river, and all the spirits of creatures which dwell there (eg. genius loci). as above, so below. as below, so above.
as to what 'spirit' is, that's another question. for now, here's a related concept that may help clarify the above.
I hope we'd be able to find a peaceful solution, but I think even with a proverbial boiling the frog approach there will be an increasing number of occasions where people will pop off against it. it's like a self fulfilling prophesy. the more authoritarian a government becomes, the more it will meet resistance to justify further authoritarianism. not sure how we'd break free of that tbh. most people will just bury their heads in the sand and blithely go along with it as long as it's not overly inconvenient to them, which is what has enabled things to get to the point they have thus far.
they're not adjusting course based on feedback from people effected. they're just codifying their excuses using saccharine platitudes (first FUD, then greenwashing, astroturfing, etc) so they can carry on pushing their globalist agenda all the more forcefully. I hate to say this, but it's looking increasingly likely in the absence of the elites' willingness to take no for an answer, that there will be open bloodshed on north american soil before the end of it.
the benefit of this is, it encourages mixed marriage, which increases the local gene pool and prevents future conflicts, because fewer people choose to wage war on their own family relations. at the same time it encourages acculturation by nurturing local cultural norms at a generational level.
The best thing about covid is being able to walk into a bank wearing a balaclava and not get shot in the face. Mind you if you didn't wear a mask, that's a possibility.How well do you think an n95 mask would stop a fart?But hey, that's why there're safe and effective (never before tested, experimental, totally not gene therapy, fingers crossed, honest) vaccines. Not so long ago it was GMO food we had to worry about. Now half the people I know are GMOs, and so is the entire hospital blood supply. Anyway, that's not nearly as important as whether I prefer the pronoun you're using, you bigot nazi fascist who wants to take away our ability to take away your ability to speak to whoever or about whatever we dislike du jour. Nya!Why is it called conspiracy "theory"? Isn't a theory a hypothesis which has been thoroughly tested and has withstood every effort to debunk it? Hmmm...The way society is going in a generation or two from now young adults will be l